Configuring rollout servers

A Rollout Server is a CM agent used to deploy other agents.

By default, the first relay that is installed in your environment is defined as the rollout server. If you want to use this predefined rollout server for your rollouts you can skip this topic and continue immediately with the next topic, Defining the Rollout Targets .

Note:

To remotely deploy agents to Windows targets, the rollout server must also have a Windows operating system.

Any rollout server can remotely deploy CM agents to other operating systems, that is, Linux and MAC OS.

Note:

If you have a very heterogeneous or distributed environment, you might want to define specific rollout servers for subnets or the different operating system platforms.

To define rollout servers, proceed as follows.

  1. Go to the Global Settings > Rollouts > Servers node.
  2. Click Add Rollout Server client_plus.png.
     The Add a new rollout server window appears.
  3. Click the All client_plus.pngtab in the left window part.
     The Add a new rollout server window appears, listing all master relays that you installed in your environment.
  4. Select the device which is to be Your Rollout Server .
  5. Click OK to add it and close the window.

The selected device is added the role of rollout server and is now ready to deploy CM agents to the devices in your environment.

 

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