Use the Device Management node of the Essentials 2007 console Administration pane to perform the post-installation configuration of agent-managed computers and network devices. For more information about these managed objects, see Computers, Computer Groups, and Discovery in System Center Essentials.
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For information about configuring settings for a Management Group, which can also be referred to as configuring global settings, see Settings Node in the Essentials 2007 Console. |
Agent-Managed Computers
Use the Agent Managed node of the Essentials 2007 console Administration pane to perform the following tasks on the selected agent-managed computer:
- Repair the installation of the agent on the selected
agent-managed computers. For more information, see How to Repair an Agent
in System Center Essentials.
- Uninstall the agent from the selected agent-managed computers.
Uninstalling the agent also deletes the respective computer from
each group of which the computer is a member. The computer is not
deleted from the reporting database.
- Delete a computer from its computer group by using the
Essentials 2007 console. For more information about deleting
an agent-managed computer, see How to Delete an
Essentials 2007 Managed Object from a Group. For more
information about uninstalling the agent, see How to Uninstall an
Essentials 2007 Agent.
- Open views, such as an Alert view, for the selected
agent-managed computer. For more information, see How to Open a View for
an Essentials 2007 Managed Object. For information about views,
see Views in
System Center Essentials.
- View the properties of an agent-managed computer. For more
information, see How to View the
Properties of a Managed Object in System Center Essentials.
- Override the group agent heartbeat settings, and configure how
often the selected agent-managed computer sends a heartbeat to its
Management Server. A heartbeat is a periodic pulse from an agent to
the Management Server that contains information related to the
health of the agent. For more information, see How to Override
Heartbeat Settings for an Essentials 2007 Agent.
Network Devices
Use the Network Devices node of the Essentials 2007 Console Administration pane to perform the following tasks on the selected network devices and computers running operating systems other than Microsoft Windows.
- Configure a managed network device or computer running an
operating system other than Windows to use a different
Essentials 2007 proxy agent. You would do this, for example,
if you need to load balance the number of devices managed by a
proxy agent. For more information, see How to Configure a
Network Device to Use a Different Essentials 2007 Proxy
Agent.
- Open views, such as an Alert view, for the selected network
device or computer running an operating system other than Windows.
For more information, see How to Open a View for
an Essentials 2007 Managed Object. For information about views,
see Views in
System Center Essentials.
- Delete a network device from Essentials 2007. Deleting a
managed object removes it from the Essentials 2007 database.
The object is not deleted from the reporting database. Deleting a
managed object is the only method to remove network device
computers. For more information, see How to Delete an
Essentials 2007 Managed Object from a Group.
- View the properties of a network device. For more information,
see How to View
the Properties of a Managed Object in System Center
Essentials.
Pending Management
An agent installed with MOMagent.msi needs to be approved for the Management Group if the Management Group or the primary Management Server for the agent is configured to Review new manual agent installations in pending management view but not Auto-approve new manually installed agents.