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Deploying Parallels Mac Client
1 When discovery finds a Mac, it will try to connect to it over SSH using user accounts that you
specified in the discovery configuration. The accounts will be used in the order listed. If you
haven't specified any accounts (or if a connection with the Mac cannot be established for any
reason), the Mac will be added to the Configuration Manager site as an unmanaged resource.
In such a case, the rest of the steps in this list will not be performed.
2 Once discovery establishes a connection with the Mac, it will push the client software
installation package to it and will continue to scan the network.
3 The installer will install the client on the Mac and will register it with the Configuration Manager
Proxy. As a result, the Mac will be assigned to the Configuration Manager site as a managed
resource.
In a situation when a discovered Mac has the client software already installed, the following
scenarios will be considered:
• If the client is registered with a different Configuration Manager Proxy but reports the same
Configuration Manager site code as the current site, the client is re-registered with the current
Configuration Manager Proxy and the Mac remains to be managed on the current site. This
scenario may occur when you re-install the Configuration Manager Proxy on your Configuration
Manager site (e.g. install in on a different computer).
• If the client is registered with a different Configuration Manager Proxy and reports a different site
code, the client registration remains unchanged and the Mac is ignored by discovery. This
situation may occur when a Mac computer (e.g. a laptop) is managed by Parallels Mac
Management in one organization and is brought in to another organization that also uses
Parallels Mac Management to manage their Macs. The site code comparison allows to prevent
a situation when a Mac is added by mistake to a wrong Configuration Manager site.
The discovered Macs (both managed and unmanaged) are placed into the All Mac OS X Systems
collection. Please note that if you have secondary sites, the Macs within their scope will be placed
into the same All Mac OS X Systems collection on their respective primary site. For more
information, see Collections in Parallels Mac Management (p. 57).
Installing Mac Client Using Interactive Installer
This section describes how to install Parallels Mac Client on a Mac using the installation program
with a graphical user interface.
To download the installation program to a Mac computer:
1 Make sure that the Configuration Manager Proxy service is installed and running.
2 Log in to a Windows server running the Configuration Manager console.
3 In the Configuration Manager console, navigate to Administration / Overview / Parallels Mac
Management.
4 Click Mac Client Enrollment. The list in the right pane will be populated with one or more Mac
Client Enrollment entries according to the following: