Job Management Partner 1/Client Security Control Description, User's Guide and Operator's Guide

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5.2.2 Setting up JP1/Software Distribution Manager

This subsection explains how to set up JP1/Software Distribution Manager.

Organization of this subsection
(1) Setting up to detect non-Software Distribution clients
(2) Setting up for automatic notification of inventory information to AIM
(3) Setting up for automatic deletion of message notification job results
(4) Setting up for a quarantine system linked to the AMT Linkage facility
(5) Setup when Asset Information Manager Subset Component of JP1/Software Distribution Manager is installed
(6) Setting up for acquiring patch information files

(1) Setting up to detect non-Software Distribution clients

To detect clients for which JP1/Software Distribution has not been installed, specify the following setting during JP1/Software Distribution Manager setup:

For details about detecting non-Software Distribution clients, see 7.2 Detecting non-Software Distribution clients.

(2) Setting up for automatic notification of inventory information to AIM

To automatically notify AIM of new inventory information, specify the following settings in JP1/Software Distribution Manager:

For details about how to automatically notify AIM of inventory information, see 7.3 Automatically obtaining client inventory information.

(3) Setting up for automatic deletion of message notification job results

When you execute a job that sends a notification message to a client, the status of the job appears in the Job Status window of Remote Installation Manager, and the execution history is saved to the CSCSendMessage folder. To automatically delete the execution results of successful message notification jobs, specify the following settings in JP1/Software Distribution Manager:

(4) Setting up for a quarantine system linked to the AMT Linkage facility

Setting up a quarantine system linked to the AMT Linkage facility of JP1/Software Distribution is required only when you want to change the settings specified during installation.

To perform the setup, specify the following setting in JP1/Software Distribution Manager:

For details about the setting, see the manual Job Management Partner 1/Software Distribution Setup Guide, for Windows systems.

(5) Setup when Asset Information Manager Subset Component of JP1/Software Distribution Manager is installed

When you install Asset Information Manager Subset Component of JP1/Software Distribution Manager, you must set up the following items:

(a) Setting up to detect non-Software Distribution clients

To detect information about non-Software Distribution clients, reflect this information in AIM, and use JP1/CSC for judgment processing, specify the following setting during setup of the server for Asset Information Manager Subset:

For details about how to detect non-Software Distribution clients, see 7.2 Detecting non-Software Distribution clients.

(b) Setting up to automatically obtain inventory information from JP1/Software Distribution Manager

To automatically obtain inventory information from JP1/Software Distribution Manager, start the following Asset Information Manager service:

You must also specify the following setting during setup of the server for Asset Information Manager Subset:

For details about how to automatically obtain inventory information from JP1/Software Distribution Manager, see 7.3 Automatically obtaining client inventory information.

(c) Setting up to scrap clients

When you scrap clients, you might want to delete the asset information about the scrapped clients from the AIM asset management database. To delete this information, specify the following setting during setup of the Asset Information Manager Subset server.

(6) Setting up for acquiring patch information files

To automatically update the judgment policy for security updates, JP1/Software Distribution must be set up to acquire patch information files. To enable this feature, enter the following information during setup of JP1/Software Distribution Manager:

For details about acquiring patch information files, see the manual Job Management Partner 1/Software Distribution Description and Planning Guide, for Windows systems.

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