Endpoint Central allows you to manage and secure computers located within your business network. The list of computers that you manage is known as the Scope of Management (SoM). For more information, see Defining the Scope of Management.
This document gives you the steps required to add computers to be managed using our product. This process is also called 'Defining the scope of management'.
To define the scope of management, follow the steps given below:
Note: Alternatively, you can specify the names of computers and add them manually. All the computers gets added to the Selected Computers list.
Note: If you do not wish to install immediately, click on Add to SoM and the computers would just be added. You will have to install the agents later.
To know more about additional methods to install agents, click here.
There are two types of remote offices that can be managed by our product. They are as follows:
To add the details of the remote offices, follow the steps below:
Note: You will see a remote office called Local Office in the list of remote offices. This refers to the computer in the Local Area Network (LAN) where the central server is installed.
Note: If there is a secondary IP address which the remote office will use to communicate with the product server, enter this IP address in the IP address field.
You have added a remote office. Follow steps 4 and 5 to add more remote offices.
After you add the details of the remote offices that you are going to manage using Endpoint Central, you are required to install agents in the computers in the remote offices. These agents will be referred to Wide Area Network (WAN) agents. There are two types of WAN agents. These include agents that receive information in the following ways:
To install agents in computers in remote offices, the following methods can be considered:
Note:
Manual Installation:
CSV File Import:
From Add Computers:
Note: If you wish to move already managed computers from one office to another, then select the computers and choose the office from the Move to drop down menu.
You have installed agents in the computers in a remote office in your network. These computer names will automatically be added to the list of computers that you are managing.
You can install agents in four ways. These include the following:
Note: Click here to know about the cloud agent installation methods.
To install an agent, follow the steps given below:
Installing an agent manually
To install an agent manually in computers within your LAN, follow the steps given below:
For versions below 10.1.2124.1, steps are as follows:
For versions 10.1.2124.1 and above, steps are as follows:
You have installed an agent manually.
Installing an agent using the product UI
There are two ways of installing an agent using the product UI:
To install an agent using the product UI while defining the scope of management, follow the steps given below:
Note: Alternatively, you can specify the names of computers and add. All the computers gets added to the Selected Computers list.
Note: If you do not wish to install immediately, click on Add to SoM and the computers would just be added. You will have to install the agents later.
To install an agent using the web console after defining the scope of management, follow the steps given below:
You have installed an agent after defining the scope of management.
Installing an agent using Group Policy Objects (GPOs)
You can install an agent in your client computers using a GPO. This is done by running a script in multiple client computers by adding the start up script of the Active Directory. For more information, see Installing the agents using GPO.
Installing an agent using IP addresses and IP ranges
For detailed instructions, refer to this document this document.
You can uninstall the agents from computers in the same LAN as the product server directly. It is recommended that you uninstall the agents from respective computers before removing them from the Scope of Management list.
To uninstall an agent, follow the steps given below:
You have installed agents from specific computers. After the uninstallation process is complete, you can remove these computers from the Scope of Management page.
Unlike computers in the same LAN where the product server is installed, the agents in the computers, in the remote offices, that are spread across a WAN cannot be uninstalled directly from the product server. You have to uninstall them manually. For more information about uninstalling agents from remote computers, see Uninstalling agents manually from computers in remote offices.
It is important that you set domain credentials when you are setting up the scope of management. You can change these credentials after you've set up the scope of management.
To change domain credentials after setting up the scope of management, follow the steps given below:
You have changed the domain credentials.
Consider the following cases:
Our product caters to every such need with its flexible and highly efficient license reuse policy. Only the total number of devices that are managed at a given time matters and not devices that were present before, hence, allowing users to remove old devices and add new ones for the same license. Also, Endpoint Central provides an option to exclude a device from being managed, yet have it under the Scope of Management (for future use) without affecting the license count.
Note:License count does not change if the devices are just added to the Scope of Management (SoM). The count will change only when agents are installed in the devices.
To have devices under the SoM and yet not affect the license count, follow the steps given below.
This can be done in three ways:
You can remove a computer from the Scope of Management when required.
To remove a computer from the scope of management, follow the steps given below:
Note: To remove computers qualifying a specific criteria, use the filter option and set the criteria needed, then select the required computers
Note: To remove all computers in a remote office, delete the entire remote office from the Remote Office tab under Scope of Management
You have removed computers from the scope of management.
Please ensure that you revoke all the restrictions configured to the devices that need to be removed from SoM.