Systems Management is an agent based management solution and so requires the installation of a small piece of software on every device. The Systems Management agent is profile specific, that is, every profile within the Systems Management environment will have a unique agent so every device that has this installed will populate into its corresponding […]
Panda Cloud Systems Management allows you to install the agent in as many devices as you decide, although you don’t have licenses. However, bear in mind that the extra devices will be offline. You will have as many online devices as licenses you have contracted. The rest of the devices will be offline which means that you won’t […]
Wake up is an Agent Browser utility that uses the Wake-on-LAN Magic packet to wake up devices. Wake up requires an online device with a PCSM agent on the same subnet as the devices to wake up. How do I wake up devices? Login to the Agent Browser. Select a device from the profile to use as the Waking up […]
Node Score is the agent ranking system for Connection Brokers. Agents added to the PCSM will obtain a ranking to determine whether it is to be established as a Connection Broker (CB) and Device Discovery/SNMP polling node. The Node Score is calculated when a device runs an audit. An agent will only respond to a Connection […]
When a job is run on a device, the file(s) associated with the job are stored on the local device. If later the same job is scheduled on another device which is on the same subnet, the device may download the file for the job from the device that already has the component file. This […]
NetAssets is a feature that scans the local subnet and returns a list of devices which respond to ICMP ping. If the device responds to ICMP, it will then be queried for SNMP information using the Public community string. A NetAssets scan will be run during the audit on the device nominated as a Connection Broker on […]
Situation Companies tend to use system cloning: that is, they create an image of the system and install it on X computers. A unique agent identifier (ID) is generated every time PCSM is installed. So, if an image of a system with PCSM installed is created, the image will also include the agent identifier. Thus, […]
The Systems Management agent will poll the platform every 90 seconds with keep alive messages. If there is more than one agent on a LAN, one of those agents will be automatically designated as a Connection Broker (CB) which will deal with all the pings and keep-alives from the other devices on the LAN. This […]
Situation Some firewalls cause the agent connection in Systems Management to intermittently disconnect (usually between 30 and 60 seconds) whilst in Peer-to-Peer mode, as indicated by green bars next to the remote device in the Agent browser. Solution To resolve this issue, Panda Security has a method of forcing the remote connection to be handled […]
System Management Account Admin users have the ability to control when an agent update is rolled out to their client device(s). When disabling the Agent automatic updates, it enables the Account admin to take control of agent updates either at the Account or Site levels. How to turn on/off Agent automatic updates By default the automatic updates are enabled. […]