The Remote Management Agent must be installed on a managed workstation so the remote operator can remotely manage that workstation.
The Remote Management Agent starts automatically when the managed workstation boots up. When you initiate a Remote Management session with a managed workstation, depending upon the authentication type, the Remote Management Agent verifies if you have the Remote Management rights. On successful verification, the Remote Management session proceeds.
Following are the modes of Remote Management authentication:
In this type of Remote Management deployment, you can initiate a Remote Management session with the managed workstation whether or not the managed workstation is registered in Novell eDirectoryTM and imported as an eDirectory Workstation object.
Password-Based Remote Management is a secured means of Remote Management authentication. The remote operator can establish single sign-on access with the managed workstation. As a result, the remote operator can automatically initiate Remote Management operations, without re-entering password or authentication information each time.
To deploy Password-Based Remote Management:
Install the ZfD 4 server-side components. For more information, see the Installation guide.
During the Agent installation, choose to install the Remote Management Agent component only on the workstations that you want to remotely manage.
IMPORTANT: To remotely manage registered workstations, you must choose to install Workstation Manager along with the Remote Management Agent.
Set the Remote Management Agent password at the managed workstation.
For more information, see Setting Up the Remote Management Agent Password.
Usually, the Remote Management Agent password is set by the user at the managed workstation.
To remotely manage registered workstations, configure the Remote Management policy.
For more information, see Configuring the Remote Management Policy for the Registered Workstations.
In this type of Remote Management deployment, for the Remote Management Agent to accept a Remote Management request, the managed workstation must be registered in eDirectory and imported as an eDirectory Workstation object.
The Remote Management Agent uses eDirectory authentication to verify that the user requesting to remotely access the managed workstation is authorized to do so. The effective policy settings based on which the remote operator performs Remote Management sessions on the managed workstation are taken from the eDirectory Workstation object and the User object of the user logged in to the managed workstation.
To deploy Directory-Based Remote Management:
Register the workstation in eDirectory and import it as an eDirectory Workstation object.
For more information, see the Installation guide.
Install the ZfD 4 server-side components.
For more information, see the Installation guide.
During the Agent installation, choose to install Remote Management Agent and Workstation Manager.
Configure the Remote Management policy.
For more information, see Configuring the Remote Management Policy for the Registered Workstations