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Appendix A Cisco Security Agent Installation and Overview

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Downloading and Installing

Once you build an agent kit on CSA MC, you deliver the generated URL, via email for example, to end users so that they can download and install the Cisco Security Agent. They access the URL to download and then install the kit. This is the recommended method of agent kit distribution. But you may also point users to a URL for the CSA MC system. This URL will allow them to see all kits that are available. That URL is:

https://<system name>/csamc52/kits

If you are pointing users to the “kits” URL and you have multiple agent kits listed here, be sure to tell users which kits to download.

Note Note that the Registration Control feature also applies to the <system name>/csamc52/kits URL. If the Registration Control feature (see the User Guide for details on the feature) prevents your IP address from registering, it also prevents you from viewing the agent kits URL.

Note Cisco Security Agent systems must be able to communicate with the Management Center for Cisco Security Agents over HTTPS.

Once users install agents on their systems, they can optionally perform a reboot (if Force reboot is not selected). See Figure A-1. Whether a system is rebooted or not, the agent service starts immediately and the system is protected. (Note that Windows NT4 systems must be rebooted after an agent installation.)

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