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3. Click Install and follow the prompts.
N To use advanced options such as HTTP communication for your agent, or to deploy the agent
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from an alternate source, refer to the online Help. To access the online Help at any time during the
wizard, click the Help button in the lower left corner of the dialog box.
4. Verify that your agent installation job has completed. To check the status of an active job, click the Jobs
button at the top of the Portal window to access the Jobs Summary.
N You can also verify jobs for the past 24 hours if you think that you may have missed your
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running discovery job by going to Administration | Job Manager | History | Other Jobs | Past 24
Hours. Refer to the online Help for details regarding VCM Jobs.
Manually Installing the VCM Windows Agent
You can manually install the VCM Windows Agent using either the EXE (.exe, executable) file or the MSI
(.msi, Microsoft Installer) file that is supplied with VCM. Choose your install method based on the
following:
EXE files detect an existing software version and provide the option to uninstall the existing version.
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EXE files can also be used for unattended silent installations.
MSI files are database files executed by the Windows MSIEXEC.EXE executable, which reads data in the
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MSI file and executes the installation. MSI files can be used for unattended, silent installations. The MSI
installer will also uninstall an existing agent (non-msi), but it does not ask. If you run it again, you have
the option of removal only. If you upgrade an MSI-installed agent with the new MSI, the old agent is
uninstalled.
The VCM Enterprise Certificate, which is selected during the initial installation of VCM, is installed in the
certificate store on the Agent machine during the Agent installation process if HTTP is selected. The
Collector root certificate (Enterprise Certificate) is used to authenticate requests from a collector (using the
Collector Certificate and its established trust to the Enterprise Certificate) on the Agent machine before a
collection/change request is processed.
Using the .exe
To manually install the VCM Windows base Agent (CMAgentInstall.exe) on a target machine using the
.exe file, follow these steps.
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