Appendix A Cisco Security Agent Installation and Overview
Downloading and Installing
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Installing Management Center for Cisco Security Agents 5.2
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After installation, the agent automatically and transparently registers with CSA
MC. You can see which hosts have successfully registered by clicking the Hosts
link available from the Systems category in the menu bar. This displays the hosts
list view. All registered host system names appear here.
The Cisco Security Agent User Interface
Note The Cisco Security Agent user interface does not run on Solaris systems.
Note If the Agent UI control rule is not present (available on Windows and Linux
only) for the system group, no agent UI appears on the end user system.
To open the Cisco Security Agent user interface on Windows and Linux systems,
users can double-click on the flag icon in their system trays. The user interface
opens on their desktop.
As the administrator, you decide which agent UI options to provide to the end
user. These options are controlled by the Agent UI control rule. Available options
are as follows:
• Allow user to reset agent UI default settings—Selecting this checkbox in
the Agent UI control rule causes the end user to have a product reset option
available from the Start>Programs>Cisco Security Agent menu. Selecting the
"Reset Cisco Security Agent" option puts all agent settings back to their
original states and clears almost all other user-configured settings. This does
not clear configured Firewall Settings or File Protection settings. But if these
features are enabled, they are disabled as this is the default factory setting.
The information entered into the edit boxes for these features is not lost.
• Allow user interaction—Selecting this checkbox in the Agent UI control
rule causes the end user to have a visible and accessible agent UI, including
a red flag in the system tray.
• Allow user access to agent configuration and contact information—
Selecting this checkbox in the Agent UI control rule provides Status,
Messages, and Contact Information features, including the ability to
manually poll the MC. It also provides the User Query Responses window.