To install the Remote Management Agent, ensure you have administrator rights.
To remotely access a workstation, the appropriate Remote Management Agent must be loaded on that workstation. The Remote Management Agent is a service installed on the Windows 95/98/NT/2000 workstation that runs automatically after installation. The agent can be installed using the Novell Application LauncherTM (NAL), the login script or the RMSETUP.EXE program.
The preferred method for installing the agent is to add the Remote Management Install Application object to the Application Launcher and associate the Application object with the managed workstation. The Remote Management Install Application object is created in NDS during ZfD 3.2 installation.
The following sections provide information for installing the Remote Management Agent:
IMPORTANT: For Windows NT/2000 managed workstations, you must associate the Application object with the Workstation object or the Container of the Workstation object. You will not be able to launch the Application object if you associate it with a User object.
To install the Remote Management Agent using the Application Launcher:
From the management console, right-click a managed workstation.
Click Properties > Applications.
Click Add > browse to select Remote Management Install.
From the Applications page, select an association for Remote Management Install.
The default association for the Remote Management Agent Application object is App Launcher. When this option is selected, the Remote Management Install Application object icon is displayed in the Application Launcher and Application Explorer (browser view), depending what ones you make available at the managed workstation.
Click OK.
Double-click the Remote Management Agent from the Application Explorer.
NOTE: Upgrade the ZfD 3.2 Remote Management files on the ZENworks server before running the Remote Management Install object from the Application Explorer.
If the NAL components are not installed on the ZENworks server and the target machine, you can add the Remote Management agent install program (RMSETUP.EXE) in the login script, at any user/container object level.
To add RMSETUP.EXE to the login script:
From ConsoleOne, right-click the container or any user object > click Properties > Login Script.
Add the following line to the login script:
#ZENworks_server_name\SYS\PUBLIC\ZENWORKS\RMSETUP.EXE
Click Apply > Close.
From the target workstation, log in as user where the modified login script is associated.
From the workstation where you want to install the Remote Management Agent, map to the SYS:\PUBLIC\ZENWORKS directory located on the ZfD server.
Double-click RMSETUP.EXE
This automatically installs the Remote Management Agent files on the managed workstation.