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Table Of Contents
- Symantec pcAnywhere™ Administrator's Guide
- Technical Support
- Contents
- 1. Planning a migration and upgrade strategy
- 2. Creating custom installation packages
- 3. Deploying Symantec pcAnywhere custom installations
- 4. Performing centralized management
- About centralized management
- Managing pcAnywhere hosts remotely
- Installing the pcAnywhere Host Administrator tool
- Adding the Host Administrator snap-in to MMC
- Creating a configuration group
- Adding computers to a configuration group
- Configuring administrator host and remote connection items
- Configuring a host item in pcAnywhere Host Administrator
- Distributing pcAnywhere configuration files
- Managing hosts in a configuration group
- Integrating with Microsoft Systems Management Server
- About the Microsoft Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)
- About centralized logging
- 5. Integrating pcAnywhere with directory services
- 6. Managing security in Symantec pcAnywhere
- Index
Performing centralized
management
This chapter includes the following topics:
■ About centralized management
■ Managing pcAnywhere hosts remotely
■ Integrating with Microsoft Systems Management Server
■ About the Microsoft Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)
■ About centralized logging
About centralized management
Symantec pcAnywhere includes the pcAnywhere Host Administrator tool, which
lets you remotely manage multiple pcAnywhere hosts on a network. The
pcAnywhere Host Administrator tool is a Microsoft Management Console (MMC)
snap-in and requires MMC to run.
Symantec pcAnywhere supports integration with Microsoft Systems Management
Server. It also supports centralized event logging using the SNMP monitor.
See “Integrating with Microsoft Systems Management Server” on page 69.
See “About centralized logging” on page 72.
Managing pcAnywhere hosts remotely
The pcAnywhere Host Administrator tool lets you remotely manage the hosts on
your network. It lets you do the following:
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