3.3 Installing the Windows Agent

To add assets to Agent Manager:

1. In a web browser, access the Change Guardian web console at https://server:8443, where server is the IP address of the Change Guardian server.

2. When prompted, provide your Change Guardian user name and password.

3. Click Integration, and then click Agent Manager.

4. 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.

5. (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.

6. (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.

7. (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.

   4. Click Add Assets.

To deploy Windows agents to assets:

1. From the assets list, select the computer where you want to deploy an agent. You can select multiple computers if Agent Manager can use the same credentials to connect to the computers.

2. Click Manage Installation, and then click Install or Upgrade Agents.

3. Provide credentials for an account that can connect to the computer and then click Next.

   The account must be the local administrator account or a domain account in the Local Administrators group.

4. For the agent revision, select NetIQ Change Guardian Agent for Windows Agent Version, where Agent Version is the version of the agent you want to deploy.

5. Select the configuration to use for the deployment, or click Add to specify a new configuration.

6. Click Start Installation.

To silently install the Windows agent:

1. In a web browser, access the Change Guardian web console at https://server:8443, where server is the IP address of the Change Guardian server.

2. When prompted, provide your Change Guardian user name and password.

3. Click Integration, and then click Agent Manager.

4. Click All Assets, and then click Manage Installation and select Download.

5. Select the package you want to download and the configuration you want to use, and then click Start Download.

   Agent Manager downloads ChangeGuardianAgentforWindows.zip to your computer.

6. 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.

7. From a command prompt with the Run as administrator option, change directory to the location where you extracted the files and run NetIQCGAgentSilentInstaller.exe.