Creating a rollout server

A Rollout Server is an CM agent used to deploy other agents. To define a device as Rollout Server, proceed as follows:

  • 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 (such as Linux/MacOS).


Related topics

Before-you-begin

Rolling-out-the-relay-agents

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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 other Rollout Servers, proceed as follows:

  1. Click Add Rollout Serverclient_plus.png.
  2. Select the new device which is to be Your Rollout Server from the list.
  3. Click OK to add it and close the window.

 

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