Steps to deploy Change Auditor Agent from the Change Auditor Client (4377579)

Steps to deploy Change Auditor Agent from the Change Auditor Client

1. Verify that the user account you are using to deploy agents is at least a Domain Admin in every domain that contains servers or workstations where agents will be deployed.
2. Verify that the user account is a member of the ChangeAuditor Administrators group in the specified Change Auditor installation.
3. Open the client. If agents have not yet been deployed, select the Deployment tab. Otherwise, use View | Deployment. The Deployment page is populated with the servers (domain controllers and member servers) and workstations in your Active Directory environment.

NOTE: The Deployment page may initially be empty until the current forest’s server topology has been initially harvested. Topology scan takes a long time when the environment contains many workstations. This page is automatically refreshed after this task has completed.

1. From this list, select an entry and use the Credentials | Set tool bar button or right-click command to enter the proper user credentials for installing agents on the selected domain. On the Domain Credentials dialog, select the domain from the list and click Set. On the Logon Credentials dialog, enter the credentials of a user with administrator rights on the selected domain.
2. After entering the proper credentials, select the entry back on the Deployment page and select Credentials | Test. If you get a Valid Creds status in the Deployment Result column, you can start deploying agents to that domain. If you get a Logon Failure status in the Deployment Result column, use the Credentials | Set command to enter the proper credentials for installing agents.
3. By default, the Change Auditor agent folders (Agent, Systray) are installed to %ProgramFiles%\Quest\ChangeAuditor\. You can, however, change the location of the installation folder by clicking Advanced Options.
4. Select one or more servers or workstations on the Deployment page and click Install or Upgrade.
5. On the Install or Upgrade dialog select one of the following options to schedule the deployment task:
1. Now (default)
2. When

If you select the When option, enter the date and time when you want the deployment task to initiate. Click OK to initiate or schedule the deployment task.

Back on the Deployment page, the Agent Status column displays ‘Pending’ and the When column displays the date and time specified.

NOTE: To cancel a pending deployment task, select the server or workstation and then click Install or Upgrade. On the Install or Upgrade dialog, click Clear Pending.

1. As agents are successfully connected to the coordinator, the corresponding Deployment Result cell displays ‘Success’, the Agent Status cell displays ‘Active’ and a desktop notification displays in the lower right-hand corner of your screen.

NOTE: To deactivate these desktop notifications, select Action | Agent Notifications.

Once agents are deployed and you open the client, the Overview page opens and provides a real-time stream of events based on a ‘favorite’ search definition and other summary information.

NOTE: After the deployment, the Version cell might display a previous version of an agent if you installed the agent on an unsupported platform.