Chapter 6. Managing Clients

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Deploying clients
  • Managing client health
  • Managing client settings
  • Monitoring client installation and activity
  • Making use of user centric improvements
  • Configuring power management

Introduction

This chapter is all about the CM client. You will learn multiple methods to deploy the client, as well as how to be proactive in monitoring client agent health. Client health in CM12 is a giant leap forward in detecting, automatically repairing, and reporting on health and activity (officially called client status).

Another fantastic feature in CM12 is client settings. You can configure and deploy specific settings (inventory classes, software metering, software inventory, and all other client settings) to ...

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