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Chapter 4 Quick Start Configuration
Build an Agent Kit
Build an Agent Kit
Note The Management Center for Cisco Security Agents ships with preconfigured
agent kits you can use to download and install agents if they meet your initial
needs (accessible from System>Agent kits in the menu bar). There are prebuilt
kits for desktops, servers, and others. These kits place hosts in the corresponding
groups and enforce the associated policies of each group. (If you use a
preconfigured agent kit, you do not have to build your own kit as detailed in the
following pages.)
Once you have a group configured, you can build a Cisco Security Agent kit.
Hosts on your network will download this kit and use it to install an agent on their
system. A group designation is the only information this kit will initially contain
for hosts that download and install it.
When an agent is installed on a host, the agent automatically and transparently
registers itself with CSA MC. It now appears in the CSA MC database as part of
the groups designated in the kit, and will enforce policies that are applied to those
groups.