Overview of the Agent Deployment Process

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The agent deployment process involves the following stages:

  • Identifying and creating a record of the computers that you want to manage by using MOM agents.

  • Preparing the event logs on these computers for running MOM agents

  • Configuring MOM Management Server settings for agent deployment.

  • Creating Computer Discovery rules.

  • Installing agents.

  • Confirming that the agents are installed and being managed.

Note

Agent Failover - Information about configuring MOM for agent failover is in chapter 3 "Deploying MOM 2005 across Multiple Computers" in this guide. Failover is configured on the Management Server.