HP Client Automation Agent Readme

December 2007

Pre-Loaded Management Agent for

HP Client Automation Starter Edition
HP Client Automation Standard Edition
HP Client Automation Enterprise Edition

Hewlett-Packard provides pre-loaded with this computer the agent software for HP Client
Automation. This agent enables this computer to become a managed node in established
environments for these solutions.

HP Client Automation Enterprise Edition provides extensive management capabilities

including:

Collect hardware and software inventory across multiple platforms

Prepare an application package and conduct impact analysis prior to
distribution
Target individual desktops, workgroups or entire populations of desktops
for deployment and maintenance of software and content according to policies
Provision and manage operating systems, applications and content on
distributed desktop computers from any location
Integrate with HP Software Service Center and other help desk and system
management tools
Leverage a common infrastructure for management of software and
content on virtually any device, any platform and any network for all enterprise
users

HP Client Automation Enterprise Edition is highly scalable, policy-based change and

configuration management software that enables administrators to efficiently and reliably
inventory, deploy and maintain software and content across heterogeneous desktop
platforms from a web-based console.

HP Client Automation Standard Edition provides the following configuration

management capabilities for Windows PCs:

Collect hardware and software inventory

Deploy packaged software to groups of devices

Manage Microsoft Operating System security patches

Deploy or update operating system images to groups of devices

The agent is pre-loaded and is ready to be installed onto this computer. By pre-loading
the agent software the amount of time and resources required to add this computer into an
HP Management environment is reduced. Once installed, it can be easily configured to
communicate with the management server to provide the management capabilities listed
above. Before installation, you will need to obtain information from the administrators of
the HP Management infrastructure, including:
Name or address of the HP Management Portal or HP Client Automation
Standard Edition server
The appropriate TCP/IP port numbers to communicate with these servers
Any firewall changes for your computer to allow communication to the
server

The HP Client Automation Agent may be installed locally on the machine by the user or
installed remotely by the IT administrator via a login script. In both cases, the command
line to install the agent is

"%programfiles%\Hewlett-Packard\CM\ManagementAgent\nvdkit.exe"
"%programfiles%\/Hewlett-Packard/CM/ManagementAgent/rma.tkd/bin/rma-
mgt.tcl" install -url http://%ConfigServer%:3466/proc/rmp -port 3463

or

"%programfiles(x86)%\Hewlett-Packard\CM\ManagementAgent\nvdkit.exe"
"%programfiles(x86)%/Hewlett-Packard/CM/ManagementAgent/rma.tkd/bin/rma-
mgt.tcl" install -url http://%ConfigServer%:3466/proc/rmp -port 3463

Where
%ConfigServer% is the name of the HP Management portal or HP Client
Automation server
3466 is the default port assigned on the server to access HP Client
Automation Standard Edition
3471 is the default port assigned on the server to access HP Client
Automation Enterprise Edition version 5.0
3463 is the default port assigned to the client

Ports 3466, 3471, and 3463 must be open at the client and all firewalls between the
client and the server.