Hi,
We are currently experimenting with how to best deploy the Advance Agent for our environment (LD 8.8 SP2a - installed and running for about 12 months). As you already know LD now recommends using the Advance Agent for upgrading existing agents in the field.
I have created the Advance Agent - and have tried the following methods of deploying to a newely SOE'ed machine which when provisioned LANDesk installs the agent automatically since the machine was already in the inventory:
- GPO: Set up a GPO with the Advanced Agent msi. Unit picks up the GPO and installs the msi, event log records msi started and then later records successfully installed, on the target machine Processes lists "TEMPldtemp.exe" as using 50% CPU. left machine for four hours, no agent deployed and still 50% utilisation on the CPU. Rebooted machine and everything back to normal except that the new agent configuration did not deploy. Event log indicates that the "msi installation was rolled back successfully".
- Push Install: Advance Agent was 'pushed' out to the machine using LANDesk, same results as above. Scheduled Tasks list the task as Successful and a result of "The agent setup program ran successfully".
- Manual Install: Ran the Advance Agent msi from the "\\core-server\ldlogon\AdvanceAgent" directory, agent installs as expected and within about 15 minutes. Processes change as expected and CPU utilisation varies during install.
I'm really pulling my hair out on this one. I can't imagine that I'm going to have to go to each machine and run it manually.
Has anyone got any suggestions...?!?!?!?
thanks,
Matt