To install or upgrade the Software Management Solution plug-in

1. In the Symantec Management Console, on the Settings menu, click Agents/Plug-ins > All Agents/Plug-ins.

2. In the left pane, expand Software > Software Management.

3. Click one of the following policies:

   • Software Management Solution Plug-in Install

     Click if you this is a new installation or if you upgraded from the 6.x version of the product.

   • Software Management Solution Plug-in Upgrade

     Click if you upgraded from the 7.x version of the product.

4. Check or uncheck Enable Verbose Reporting of Status Events as appropriate.

   This option records the detailed events that are related to the installation and posts them to the Notification Server computer.

5. Under Applied to, select where to install the agent or you can keep the default settings.

   For more information, see the topics about specifying the targets of a policy or task in the Symantec Management Platform Help.

6. Under Schedule, set the schedule for the policy or you can use the default Run once ASAP option to run the policy as soon as possible.

   Note that if you turn off and then turn on the policy, it will not run on the same computer again. To run a policy on the same computer again, you must configure it to run on a schedule.

   For more information, see the topics about specifying a policy schedule in the Symantec Management Platform Help.

7. (Optional) Under Extra schedule options, configure other options.

   See Extra schedule options section.

8. Turn on the policy.

   At the upper right of the page, click the colored circle and then click On.

9. Click Save changes.