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MANAGING MANUAL AGENT INSTALLATION
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EXAM TIP
You'll need to be familiar with the different ways in which you can deploy the Operations
Manager agent. You'll also need to know in which cases you will need to authorize an
agent and when you need to perform a manual installation
Operations Manager discovers network devices by running discovery rules that the Opera-
tions Manager Administrator configures. Network discovery rules include the following
information:
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IP address or FQDN of the devices that you want to discover.
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The SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) version used by each device. Op-
erations Manager supports SNMP v1, v2, and v3.
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The SNMP community string of any SNMP v1 or v2 compatible devices to be discov-
ered.
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User name, context, authentication protocol, authentication key, privacy key, and pri-
vacy protocol for each SNMP v3 device.
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The management server that will monitor the discovered network devices.
When performing network discovery, any firewalls between the Operations Manager
management server and the network devices to be discovered must allow SNMP (UDP) and
ICMP bidirectionally. SNMP usually uses 161 (UDP) and 162 (TCP/UDP). If you are going to be
discovering devices that use SNMP v1 or v2, you'll need to configure the Run As account to
use for this purpose. You can do this before creating the discovery rule, or during the discov-
ery rule creation process.
To create a network discovery rule, perform the following steps:
1.
Right-click the Network Management node in the Administration workspace of the
Operations Manager console, and click Discovery Wizard.
On the Discovery Type page of the Computer And Device Management Wizard, click
Network Devices, as shown in Figure 2-23, and click Next.
2.
