Job Management Partner 1/Software Distribution Administrator's Guide Volume 1

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4.6 Using the remote control facility

You can use Remote Control Manager to connect to hosts you selected with Inventory Viewer.

To use Remote Control Manager to connect to selected hosts:

  1. In a table-format window or in the Details pane of the Count Clients window, select the target hosts. Then, from the Tools menu, choose Start Remote Control Manager.
    If only one host is selected, Remote Control Manager is started and connected to the selected host.
    When more than one host is selected, the Select Host dialog box appears. If this dialog box appears, go to step 2.

    Figure 4-50 Select Host dialog box

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  2. Select the target hosts and click Start.
    Remote Control Manager is started and connected to the selected hosts.

On a computer that uses Inventory Viewer, the following applies when host names are used as the ID key for operations: