Automated Agent Installation on Systems in a Domain

To automatically push the eG agents from the eG manager to a target host that is attached to a domain, you need to configure the eG manager with required domain details. For this purpose, you can use the Agents Installation for Machines attached to Domain page. To access this page, select the Systems in Domain option under the Installation menu in the Agents tree structure. Then, follow the steps detiled below to configure the eG manager to install the agents on the target hosts:

1. Select a domain name from the Domain Name drop-down in the Agents Installation for Machines attached to Domain page. This should be the domain that contains the systems where agents are to be installed. Typically, the Domain Name drop-down will be populated with all AD domains that the eG manager integrates with.

2. In the page that appears next, you need to indicate on which computers in the chosen domain you want agents installed. You can either Search the entire domain (you have chosen) for the target hosts, or you can browse specific Organizational Units (OUs) within the chosen domain for the computers of interest to you.

3. If you choose the Search option under Select section, then proceed as follows:

   1. In the Target names (comma separated) to be searched in the selected domain text box, provide either a single or a comma-separated list of computers you want to push agents to. You can also use wild card patterns to ease your search. For instance, if you want to install agents on all computers with names starting with ‘Win10-’, your specification can be: Win10-*.

   2. The List of Computers list box will then be populated with all the computers that match your search specification.

   3. If you want, you can filter your search even further by specifying the operating system of your computers. For that, select an option from the Operating System drop-down. In this case, the List of Computers list box will display those computers that not only match your search specification, but which also run the Operating System you choose. If, due to any reason, eG Enterprise is unable to discover the operating system of one/more hosts in the chosen domain, then such hosts will be grouped under [Computers not having OS data]. If you are unable to find the Operating System you are looking for in the Operating System drop-down, then you may want to select the [Computers not having OS data] option to locate the computer(s) of interest to you.

   4. Next, from the List of Computers list box, select all the computers on which you want agents installed. Then, click the Check Agent Availability button therein.

   5. The Agents Availability Status page will then appear. A quick look at this page will reveal if an eG agent pre-exists on any of the computers you chose earlier. If an eG agent has already been installed on any/all of the hosts, you may want to change your computer selection. In this case, go back to previous page by clicking on the arrow button that prefixes the page title, Agents Availability Status. On the other hand, if you want to go ahead and deploy agents on one/more of the computers on which no agent has been installed so far, then select the computers you want to push agents to from the ‘Select target hosts for installation.... ’ list box, and click the Install Agent button.

      Note:

      Once agent installation begins, the eG manager will automatically begin pushing agents to the target hosts in the chosen domain. To achieve this, the eG manager will first attempt to connect to the individual hosts using the domain user credentials. These credentials are typically passed when integrating the eG manager with that AD domain. For more details, refer to the Adding/Modifying/Deleting a Domain topic in the Administering eG Enterprise document.

   6. The Installation Status page will then appear, using which you can track the progress of the agent installation. To know what the Installation Status page reveals, click here

4. If you choose the Browse option under Select section, then proceed as follows:

   1. From the Organizational Unit drop-down, select the OU to which the target systems belong.

   2. The List of Computers list box will then be automatically populated with all the computers that belong to the chosen OU. If you want, you can filter this list of computers on the basis of their Operating System. For this, select an option from the Operating System drop-down. If this is done, then the List of Computers list box will display those computers in the chosen OU that run on the Windows platform that you choose from the Operating System drop-down. Then, from the List of Computers list box, select one/more targets to which agents are to be pushed.

      If eG is unable to discover the operating system of any of the hosts in an OU, then such hosts will be classified as [Computers not having OS data]. Select this option from the Operating System drop-down, if the OS you are not able to find the OS you are looking for in that drop-down. In this case, all computers for which OS is not known, will be displayed in the List of Computers list box. Select the computers to which agents need to be pushed.

   3. To begin agent installation on the selected targets, click the Check Agent Availability button.

   4. Then, proceed as indicated by step (e) to step (i) above.