Deployment Agents - Symantec ALTIRIS DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION 6.9 SP4 - V1.0 Manual

Deployment agents

Altiris Deployment Solution™ from Symantec User's Guide
Field Description
User must Select to force the user to change the password after setting the
change configuration properties.
password at
next logon
User cannot Prohibit the user from changing the password at any time.
change
password
Password Select to maintain the user password.
never expires
See also
To remotely manage computers from a Deployment Console, a Deployment Agent is
installed on each computer in the Deployment Server system. Deployment Agents are
provided for various computer types, including Windows, Linux, and DOS computers.
To set or modify Deployment Agent settings from the Deployment Server
Console, right-click a computer or group, select Change Agent Settings
and click Production or Automation.
To set or modify agent settings for new computers, click Tools > Options,
click Agent Settings.
The following Deployment Agents reside on the client computer and communicate with
the Deployment Server.
Deployment Agent on
Windows
Deployment Agent on Linux
Automation Agent
Deployment Agent on
ThinClient CE 6.0
Deployment Agent on CE
.NET
Computer configuration properties
The Deployment Agent runs on Windows computers,
including desktops, notebooks, and servers.
See Deployment agent settings
This Deployment Agent runs on Linux workstations
and servers.
See Deployment agent settings
The Automation Agent is used when you create
configurations to boot client computer to automation.
This is done through Boot Disk Creator.
See Boot Disk Creator Help and
partition on page 133.
This agent runs on ThinClient Windows CE 6.0
operating systems and lets the Deployment Console
manage WinCE 6.0 based Thin Clients.
This agent runs on the CE .NET 4.2 operating
system.
on page 101.
on page 110.
on page 110.
Install automation
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