2.5.3 Assigning agent configurations to online-managed computers

You can control how agents are configured by handling agent configurations on the management server. When you change agent configurations on the management server, the new settings take effect on every online-managed computer assigned those particular agent configurations. This allows you to efficiently change how agents are set up across the system.

By default, each computer is assigned the default agent configuration. However, if an online-managed computer is automatically registered in a group with its own agent configurations, the computer is assigned the default agent configuration for that group. For example, if you assign the XP settings to the Windows XP Professional OS group, a computer running Windows XP that becomes a management target is automatically assigned the XP settings.

You can apply agent configurations at the computer or group level by creating the settings and assigning them to a specific computer or group. You cannot assign agent configurations to a user-defined group.

When you assign agent configurations to an individual computer, the settings take effect on that computer. If you assign agent configurations to a group, the settings take effect on every online-managed computer in that group. The following figure shows how agent configurations are assigned.

If agent configurations are assigned to an individual computer and the group to which it belongs, the agent configurations applied to the computer itself take effect. A group that is not directly assigned agent configurations does not inherit the agent configurations of the upper-level group. The following figure shows which agent configurations apply when a computer is assigned more than one set.

If you cancel agent configurations, the settings assigned to the upper-level group take effect.

In some circumstances, such as when a computer has several network cards, a computer might be registered in more than one group intended for a certain range of IP addresses. If a computer belongs to several groups each with different agent configurations, the default agent configuration apply to that computer.

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