The Control Center console allows you to quickly and easily deploy the AppManager agent and AppManager modules to the remote Windows computers in your environment. Deployment provides:
Automated detection of new agent computers and applications.
Automated deployment of agents and modules.
Rapid response to changing environments.
Multiple, firewall-friendly deployment servers.
Customized deployment schedules to meet corporate maintenance windows.
To deploy agents or modules, you create or enable deployment rules, then approve the deployment tasks created by the deployment rules. Deployment tasks include the required credentials to run on the agent computers. Each AppManager agent provides the details about applications installed on the agent computer so that in the future you can easily deploy additional modules and updates to the agent computer.
Deploying an agent discovers and adds the agent computer to the default Master management group. You can add agent computers to other management groups based on the resources you want to monitor.
Deployment also enables you to upgrade or uninstall agents and modules.
Instead of using the Control Center console to deploy the UNIX agent, you use UNIX Agent Manager. For information about deploying the UNIX agent, see the NetIQ UNIX Agent documentation, which is included with the AppManager UNIX agent installation kit.