LANDesk Management Suite 9 Best Practices for Agent - Community

Table of Figures
Figure 1: Launching Agent configuration from the Tools menu ............................................................................................. 7
Figure 2 Launching Agent configuration from the left menu pane ........................................................................................ 7
Figure 3 Default Agent configurations list .............................................................................................................................. 8
Figure 4 Agent configuration annotated tools ....................................................................................................................... 9
Figure 5 Part A: Windows agent configuration .................................................................................................................... 10
Figure 6 Part B: Windows agent configuration..................................................................................................................... 10
Figure 7 Standard LANDesk Windows agent ........................................................................................................................ 12
Figure 8 Inventory scanner parameter setup ....................................................................................................................... 13
Figure 9 Schedule-driven scan setup .................................................................................................................................... 14
Figure 10 Local scheduler configuration .............................................................................................................................. 15
Figure 11 Agent configuration for alerting ........................................................................................................................... 16
Figure 12 Bandwidth detection and control ......................................................................................................................... 17
Figure 13 Software usage monitoring setup ........................................................................................................................ 19
Figure 14 set up any custom data forms .............................................................................................................................. 20
Figure 15 Software distribution methods ............................................................................................................................ 21
Figure 16 Policy based software distribution ....................................................................................................................... 22
Figure 17 Software Launchpad ............................................................................................................................................. 23
Figure 18 Software Portal ..................................................................................................................................................... 23
Figure 19 Client Remote control management .................................................................................................................... 24
Figure 20 End user options permitted .................................................................................................................................. 25
Figure 21 Remote control client side indicators and settings .............................................................................................. 26
Figure 22 Security and compliance ...................................................................................................................................... 27
Figure 23 Spyware detection ................................................................................................................................................ 28
Figure 24 Application Blocker setup ..................................................................................................................................... 29
Figure 25 Agent watcher setup ............................................................................................................................................ 30
Figure 26 Linux agent configuration ..................................................................................................................................... 31
Figure 27 Advance Agent configuration ............................................................................................................................... 36
Figure 28 Advance Agent push ............................................................................................................................................. 38
Figure 29 Group Policy Management in Administrative tools.............................................................................................. 39
Figure 30 GP Management console ..................................................................................................................................... 40
Figure 31 Create new GPO ................................................................................................................................................... 41
Figure 32 “Name that GPO” ................................................................................................................................................. 43
Figure 33 Group Policy Object Editor ................................................................................................................................... 45
Figure 39 GPO Software Package Properties........................................................................................................................ 46
Figure 40 Package locations browsing ................................................................................................................................. 47
Figure 41 MSI packages location .......................................................................................................................................... 48
Figure 42 List of MSI's available ........................................................................................................................................... 49
Figure 43 MSI is selected ...................................................................................................................................................... 50
Figure 44 Package deployment method ............................................................................................................................... 51
Figure 45 Selecting Users, Computers or Groups ................................................................................................................. 52
Figure 46 Select computers only .......................................................................................................................................... 53
Figure 47 Select a target machine ........................................................................................................................................ 53
Figure 48 GPO summary ....................................................................................................................................................... 54
Figure 49 Configure Services information for the Scheduler ............................................................................................... 56