About Oob Site Servers; Prerequisites For Oob Site Server Installation - Symantec ALTIRIS OUT OF BAND MANAGEMENT COMPONENT 7.0 SP3 - IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE V1.0 Implementation Manual

118 Deploying OOB site servers

About OOB site servers

About OOB site servers

Prerequisites for OOB site server installation

Ensures that the site service is installed only on the computers that satisfy
the minimum system requirements
Site services take advantage of the sites and the subnets that you have set up to
efficiently perform tasks across your network. For example, you can distribute
packages quickly to your Symantec Management Agents by setting up multiple
package servers. The package servers handle most of the package distribution
functions, which frees up Notification Server to perform other activities.
You can configure the Notification Server environment by setting up sites and
site servers to suit the requirements of your organization.
An OOB site server is a site server computer with the OOB service installed. The
OOB service installs Intel SCS on the site server computer.
When you install Out of Band Management Component, the main OOB site server
is automatically installed on the Notification Server computer. You can later
deploy more OOB site servers to other subnets or geographic locations. For
example, if Intel AMT computers in a subnet cannot reach the main OOB site
server, you can install another OOB site server into that subnet. Also, if you want
to reduce the Notification Server computer's workload, you can move the OOB
service from the Notification Server computer to another site server on the
network.
All OOB site servers work with and must be able to access the same SQL database.
When you run out-of-band management tasks, Out of Band Management
Component and other Altiris solutions use this database to get the connection
credentials for each of the Intel AMT devices.
See "Prerequisites for OOB site server installation"
See "Installing an OOB site server"
The computer that you want to use as an OOB site server must meet the following
requirements:
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server SP2 operating system running
512 MB free disk space
The Altiris Agent installed
See "Installing the Altiris Agent"
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