RE: LDMS 9.0SP3
So this is sort of a two-part question:
part 1) lets say I use a single agent config across my deployment. If I decide I want to add something like Power Management to the Agent Configuration I know how to do that. My question is this: do agents that are already in service check in and see that their agent configuration has changed and in this case they would download the appropriate Power Management settings?
-I'm pretty sure the answer to this question is NO, so I'd then like to ask "why not?"
part 2) I see the option under AGENT CONFIGURATION - > SCHEDULE UPDATE TO AGENT SETTINGS. What does this really do? How is it really supposed to be used?
-I scheduled one of these in a two-agent config environment and simply assigned all of my clients to the task thinking that only the agents using the one config would update their settings: WRONG! It looked like all of my agents got overwritten, even the ones that were not using the agent config that I wanted updated. I feel like that I have to be deliberate and manually update my agents when I decide I need to change something and this just seems wrong to me. Shouldn't this just be an automatic process?
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
a few somewhat related posts on this topic:
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http://community.landesk.com/support/message/72972#72972
this one doesn't really have qualfied advice; why do you sometimes have to redeploy the agent vs just updating?
http://community.landesk.com/support/message/18777#18777
this one seems to have the most useful information, but it doesn't really explain what happened in the 2nd part of my scenario above.