Job Management Partner 1/Client Security Control Description, User's Guide and Operator's Guide
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:
- In the Server Customization page, select the Hold the newly detected results check box.
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:
- In the System Configuration page, select the Automatically apply the system configuration check box.
- In the System Configuration page, select the Save deletion history check box.
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:
- On the JP1/CSC - Agent linkage panel, select the Delete Successful Jobs check box.
(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:
- On the AMT Linkage page, specify the user ID and password of the AMT management user.
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:
- In Link with JP1/SD in the Setup dialog box, set Take machines without SD installed to Take (default).
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:
- Asset Information Synchronous Service
- Note
- When starting Asset Information Synchronous Service, use the following service start order:
- Client Security Control - Manager
- Asset Information Synchronous Service
You must also specify the following setting during setup of the server for Asset Information Manager Subset:
- In Link with JP1/SD of the Setup dialog box, set Type of information to acquire to Hardware and software and software inventory information.
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.
- In Link with JP1/SD in the Setup dialog box, set Status of machines deleted with JP1/SD to Erase (default).
(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:
- Enter network information in the Network Settings page displayed from the Software Update Management dialog box.
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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