Chapter 3 Installing the Management Center for Cisco Security Agents
Local and Remote DB Installation Overview
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Using this configuration, you can deploy up to 100,000 agents. Having two
CSA MCs lets you use one MC for host registration and polling and another
MC for editing configurations.
Caution If you are installing two CSA MCs with one of the MCs residing on the machine
where the database is installed, you must select the Remote Database radio button
during the installation of both MCs. Even though one MC is “local” to the
database, for the two MCs configuration to work properly, they must both be
configured to communication with the database as though it were remote.
Installing CSA MC with a Local Database
If you are installing both CSA MC and the database to the same machine with the
provided Microsoft SQL Server Express database, you should install Microsoft
SQL Server Express Edition as part of the CSA MC installation. The CSA MC
installation runs the Microsoft SQL Server Express installation program choosing
the Microsoft SQL Server Express settings the MC needs. During the MC
installation, if you want to install the database on a different system drive from
the MC, the install prompts allow you to do this.
It is recommended that you install SQL Server Express via the CSA MC installer.
If you install it manually as implied that you might do on page 3-11, you should
know that if you take the SQL Server Express defaults, then your subsequent CSA
MC installation will fail. (See Caution below)
Caution Because Microsoft SQL Server Express is provided on the CD separately, you
might be tempted to install it yourself manually. This is not recommended. If you
install it yourself, you must select specific non-default settings for the database to
work with CSA MC. Those settings are provided in another section here, see
Microsoft SQL Server Express Manual Installation Settings, page 3-20. But
again, this is not the recommended deployment.
Before beginning, exit any other programs you have running on the system where
you are installing CSA MC.
To install the CSA MC, do the following: