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Figure 25 Agent watcher setup Agent Watcher allows proactive monitoring of selected LANDesk agent services and files. Agent Watcher can be enabled and agent watcher settings deployed with an initial device agent configuration. It can also be updated at any time without having to perform a full agent configuration. Creating agents for non-Windows environments We saw earlier that agents can also be configured for non-windows operating environments. These include the Linux RedHat, Ubuntu and Souse, as well as HP-UX and Macintosh. Since these are of somewhat limited usage for many LANDesk customers, we will merely point out their availability. To illustrate just one of these configurations we will show the screen used to configure Linux agents.
Figure 26 Linux agent configuration Linux options include the ability to scan and repair vulnerabilities and to implement monitoring and alerting. The Inventory scanner screen is very simple, giving you the choice of when to run the scan Daily, Weekly or Monthly Customizing the Agent Installation The agent installation is controlled by an INI file. This file is created from the NTstacfg.INI when the agent configuration is created. The settings for the agent behavior are contained in an MSI that is created when the Agent is created. The MSI settings can be modified using the agent configuration interface. If the Agent configuration requires customization, changes can be merged into the Ntstacfg.ini. A scheduled update will only redeploy the MSI and the settings contained within, customizations to the INI are not redeployed. The following example shows how to change the local scheduler tasks by adding commands lines to the INI. (Local scheduler tasks are created by default in the MSI and have the same settings as shown below.)
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