To create a site level policy, proceed as follows: Open the Administration console. Click on the selected site and select the Policies tab. Click New site policy. Type a name for your policy and select the type: Agent Monitoring Power Windows Updates You can also select Based on if you want to base your new policy on one previously created. […]
User-defined fields in Systems Management are used for displaying device information that is not picked up during the device audit. Each device record can have up to 10 user-defined fields. You can enter the user-defined field information manually on the Device Summary page or it can be populated by the Systems Management Agent on Windows […]
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 […]