1.6.5 Distributing the agent installation media (CD-R or USB memory) to users

Record the installation set data to a medium (CD-R or USB memory), and then distribute it to each user. Users then use the distributed medium to install an agent on their computers.

Advantage:: This approach does not require you to create a security control page on a Web site, or to create an environment that allows for shared folder. This approach is useful when there are relatively small number of computers on which to install agents. In addition, even when the network speed is slow, users can install an agent without affecting network performance. This approach also makes an agent program available to each user who has the privileges to configure user computers.
Disadvantage:: This approach is time-consuming because it requires you to copy data to a required number of media and then distribute them to users.

The following figure shows an overview of how an agent is installed from a distributed CD-R medium:

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Tip

If you create Autorun.inf and then record it to a CD-R medium along with the installation set, installation starts automatically when a user inserts the medium into the user's computer. The following example shows how to create Autorun.inf, where ITDM2Agt.exe is the name of the file storing the installation set:

[Autorun]
open=ITDM2Agt.exe

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