Product guide

subgroups
and policy management 58
criteria-based 46
subnets, as grouping criteria 40
SuperAgent repositories
about 97
creating 105
deleting 106
global updating requirements 135
replicating packages to 105
tasks 104
SuperAgents
as repositories 64
distributed repositories 97
wake-up calls 66, 82
wake-up calls to System Tree groups 82
synchronization
Active Directory and 43
defaults 47
deploying agents automatically 43
excluding Active Directory containers 43
importing systems 43
NT domains 44
preventing duplicate entries 43
scheduling 60
Synchronize Now action 42
systems and structures 43
System Tree
access requirements 39
assigning policies to a group 124
child groups and inheritance 39
creation, automated 40
criteria-based sorting 44
defined 38
deleting systems from 38, 80
groups and manual wake-up calls 82
My Organization level 38, 39
parent groups and inheritance 39
permission sets 39
populating groups 50
removing agents 80, 81
System Tree organization
borders in your network 40
creating groups 50
duplicate entries 59
importing Active Directory containers 56
importing systems and groups 52, 53
mapping groups to Active Directory containers 56
moving systems to groups manually 61
network bandwidth 40
operating systems 41
planning considerations 39
text files, importing systems and groups 53
using subgroups 58
System Tree sorting
default settings 47
enabling 55
on agent-server communication 45
ordering subgroups 46
server and system settings 17, 45
sort systems once 45
tag-based criteria 46
System Tree synchronization
Active Directory integration 42
NT domain integration 42
scheduling 60
System Tree synchronization (continued)
to Active Directory structure 56
systems
assigning policies to 124, 125
pasting policy assignments to 127
policy enforcement for a product 125
properties, full and minimal 69
sorting into groups 55
viewing policy assignment 119
T
tables and charts
exported as reports 20
report formats 20
Tag Builder wizard 48
Tag Catalog 48
tag-based sorting criteria 41, 46
tags
applying 49, 50
creating with Tag Builder wizard 48
criteria-based 42, 44
criteria-based sorting 54
defined 41
excluding systems from automatic tagging 48
group sorting criteria 41
manual application of 49
permissions for 41
types 42
without criteria 42
working with 47
Test Sort action 44
third-party distribution tools 78
throttling (See notifications) 152
troubleshooting
agent activity logs 68
product deployment 133
verifying properties of agent and products 84
viewing product and agent version numbers 87
U
UNC share repositories
about 97
creating and configuring 106
editing 109
enabling folder sharing 108
unmanaged repositories 97
updates
agent installation packages 79
checking in manually 137
client tasks 133
considerations for creating tasks 134
deploying packages with tasks 141
deployment packages 132
package signing and security 132
packages and dependencies 132
running tasks manually 85, 86
scheduling an update task 148
source sites and 96
upgrading agents 79
updating
agents, with login scripts or manual installation 79
automatically, with global updating 140
DATs and engine 132
deployment tasks 133
global, process 134
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