4.4.4 Offline management configuration

You can manage computers that cannot be connected to the network of the management server, such as standalone computers and computers in a site. A configuration that contains offline managed computers is called the offline management configuration. The following figure shows the offline management configuration.

Although the system configuration in this figure consists of only computers on which agents are installed, the configuration can also contain agentless computers.

The offline management configuration requires that the online management agent is installed on the administrator's computer. The reason is that, to add offline managed computers as the management targets, device information for the target computers must be collected by using external media and then be reported to the management server from the online management agent.

Important

There are functional differences between an offline managed computer and an online managed computer. For details, see (1) Functional differences between agent/agentless management.

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