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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
3
In the Distribute pcAnywhere Files dialog box, select the computers to which
you want to distribute the file.
4
Select the file that you want to distribute.
5
Click OK.
Managing hosts in a configuration group
Once you have configured the computers in your configuration group, use the
pcAnywhere Host Administrator console to start, stop, or connect to any managed
host in the group.
To manage hosts in a configuration group
1
In the pcAnywhere Host Administrator console, on the left pane, under
pcAnywhere Host Administrator, click the plus sign next to Configuration
Groups to expand it.
2
Under Configuration Groups, click the plus sign next to the name of your
configuration group to expand it.
3
Under Systems, right-click the computer that you want to manage, and then
click All Tasks.
4
Select one of the following:
Starts a host session on the selected host
computer
Start Specific Host
Starts a host session on the Host Administrator
computer
Start Admin Host
Starts a host session on the computer on which
you most recently started a host session
Start Last Host
Cancels the host session and disconnects any
active sessions on the host
Stop Host
Connects to the Host Administrator computer,
using the settings that are configured in the
admin11.chf remote file
Connect to Admin Host
Reconfigures the settings on the Host
Administrator computer
Configure Admin Host
Retrieves the activity log from the remote
computer
Get Activity Log
Performing centralized management
Managing pcAnywhere hosts remotely
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