5.2 Installing Windows Agents

To add assets to Agent Manager:

1. From Change Guardian main click, Integration > Agent Manager.

2. Do one of the following:

   • (Conditional) If you have not previously added assets, in Agent Manager, under Asset Groups, click All Assets and then click Add Assets.

   • (Conditional) If you previously added assets, in Agent Manager, click All Assets, then Manage Assets, and then Add.

3. (Conditional) If you want to import assets from Active Directory, complete the following:

   1. Click Active Directory.

   2. Provide the domain name or IP address of the Active Directory server and credentials for connecting to the server, and then click Authenticate.

   3. Navigate the Active Directory tree to locate the assets you want to add, select the assets, and then click Add Assets.

4. (Conditional) If you want to import assets from a text file, complete the following:

   1. Create a text file with a header line containing the columns Hostname, MajorType, and Addresses. Use a tab to separate the columns. In the Hostname column, type the fully-qualified domain names of the computers where you want to deploy agents. Optionally, you can specify the IP addresses in the Addresses column. In the Major Type column, specify whether the operating system is UNIX or Windows. For example:

      Hostname	MajorType	Addresses
      houidam101.us.netiq.corp	Windows
      houidam102.us.netiq.corp	Windows	10.204.102.5

   2. In the Agent Manager, click Hosts List.

   3. Click Browse, navigate to the location where you saved the text file, and then click Open.

5. (Conditional) If you want to manually add an asset, do the following:

   1. Click Host.

   2. Specify the host name or IP address of the computer. To specify multiple IP addresses, use a comma to separate the addresses.

   3. Select the appropriate operating system type, Windows or Linux/UNIX from the drop-down list.

   4. Click Add Assets.

To install Windows Agent using Agent Manager:

1. From Change Guardian main, click Integration > Agent Manager.

2. Do one of the following:

   • (Conditional) If you have not previously added assets, in Agent Manager, under Asset Groups, click All Assets and then click Add Assets.

   • (Conditional) If you have previously added assets, in Agent Manager, click All Assets, then Manage Assets, and then Add.

3. From the assets list, select the computers where you want to deploy the agent. If you select multiple computers, they must all use the same credentials.

4. Log in as root to the computer that you want to connect and click Next.

5. Click Manage Installation, and then select Install.

6. Perform the following steps:

   1. For the agent version, select Windows Agent Agent Version, where Agent Version is the version of the agent you want to deploy.

   2. For the agent configuration, you can choose the default configuration. If you want to modify the default configuration, use the Edit option to customize the default configuration.

      Otherwise, if required, you can add a new configuration using the Add option.

   3. Click Start Installation

To manually install the Windows agents:

1. From Change Guardian main click, Integration > Agent Manager.

2. Click All Assets > Manage Installation > Download.

3. Select the Change Guardian Agent for Windows package.

4. Specify the configuration you want to use, and then click Start Download.

   Agent Manager downloads ChangeGuardianAgentforWindows.zip to your computer.

5. Copy ChangeGuardianAgentforWindows.zip to the computer where you want to install the Windows agent and extract the files.

   The silent installation package includes NetIQCGAgentSilentInstaller.exe and NetIQCGAgentSilentInstaller.config. Both files must be in the same directory. The configuration file contains the configuration you chose when you downloaded the silent installation package.

6. Change the directory path to the location where you extracted the files, right-click NetIQCGAgentSilentInstaller.exe file and select Run as administrator option.