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  • 1.  How is Agent cmd line built when pulling Agent from URL?

    Posted Jul 21, 2014 05:22 PM

    Good afternoon,

    I am curious if anyone knows what is actually happening with regard to the cmd line when pulling the 7.1 agent from a url? We use an alias for each SMP (SMP01, SMP02, ect) so that we can easily redirect if necessary in the event of a DR event. This was done correctly when we migrated our clients from 6.x.

     I just realized that when we do one off re-installs we are installing with a cmd line that writes the actual server hostname in. So on to my question

    - Is this cmd line being auto generated when the request is made? (If so can I change it?)

    or 

    - Is this cmd line fixed and just sitting in a script in the package that we can modify with the Alias name?

    Tanka

    DCHAD

     

     



  • 2.  RE: How is Agent cmd line built when pulling Agent from URL?

    Posted Jul 21, 2014 06:03 PM

    There should be a log file called AeXNSC... in the Windows or system32 directory that may have the command line in it.
     



  • 3.  RE: How is Agent cmd line built when pulling Agent from URL?

    Posted Jul 23, 2014 07:56 AM

    When you pull altiris agent via URL, following cmd command is automatically generated:

    "C:\WINDOWS\system32\AexNSC.exe" -s -a ns="SERVERNAME" nsweb="HTTP://SERVERNAME/ALTIRIS" NOSTARTMENU   /s

    You can create your own cmd script to deploy agent with needed parameters, ns name etc.

    More information about  manual install of the altiris agent : http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO2852

    AN