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Installing Management Center for Cisco Security Agents 5.2
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Deployment Planning
Overview
This section provides information on deploying the product as part of pilot
program and scaling the product to 100,000 agent deployments.
This section contains the following topics:
• Piloting the Product, page 2-2
• Running a Pilot Program, page 2-2
• Scalable Deployments, page 2-3
• Hardware Sizing, page 2-3
• Software Considerations, page 2-5
• Configuration Recommendations for Scalability, page 2-5
• Factors in Network Sizing, page 2-6
• Factors in Database Sizing, page 2-7
• Policy Tuning and Troubleshooting, page 2-7
• Overall Guidelines, page 2-7
• Using Test Mode, page 2-10
• Disabling Specific Rules, page 2-11
• Caching and Resetting Query Responses, page 2-12
• Setting Up Exception Rules, page 2-13