Installation guide

Configuring Remote Machines
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Configuring Remote Machines
The VCM Remote client is the communication and management mechanism that you use to manage
mobile Windows machines as they connect to and disconnect from the network.
For Windows machines that are not continuously connected to the network, the VCM Remote client
listens for network events indicating it has access to the VCM Remote-related components on the VCM
Internet Information Services (IIS) server. Based on the configured settings, the Collector creates requests,
such as a collection request, for the remote machine that has just become available online.
VCM Remote Management Workflow
To indicate the presence of the mobile Windows machine on your network, the VCM Remote client sends
an HTML POST file over HTTP to a server-side component residing on the VCM Internet Information
Services (IIS) server. Based on user-defined settings, the Collector auto-licenses the remote machine,
installs or upgrades the VCM Windows Agent, and determines whether it should submit a collection job
for that remote machine.
The Collector batches the requests and processes them at periodic intervals. This batch processing
manages the problem of having 15,000 clients come online within a short time of one another and creating
15,000 individual requests.
Configuring VCMRemote Connection Types
The VCM Remote client accommodates three connection methods, including broadband, dial-up, and
LAN, for Windows machines that do not have a continuous connection to the network.
To optimize the collection of the Windows machine data, you configure different collection filters for
different connection types based on general bandwidth for each connection type.
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Broadband: DSL and cable connections can be 156Kb to more than 1Mb.
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Dial-up: A dial-up connection can be 56Kb or less.
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LAN: A local area connection to the network equal to or greater than 1Mb. A VPN connection might be
available at LAN speeds but connected over the Internet.
For each connection type, you assign a customized collection filter set. For example, when a remote
machine connects using a dial-up connection, you use a collection filter set that collects only key data
compared to a filter set for LANconnections that collects more data from the target machines.
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