Agent management

When you've deployed your Windows agents, you'll want to know how to manage them and in this section we will discuss the agent management options available to you from within the Administration workspace of the console.

Agent actions explained

From the Device Management | Agent Managed view shown in Figure 4.20, when you click on an agent, you can see that the Actions pane on the right presents you with five actions to help you manage the agent.

Agent actions explained

Figure 4.20: Viewing the actions for managing agents

These five agent management actions are explained as follows:

Properties

When you click on the Properties agent management action you are presented ...

Get Getting Started with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.