and help process communications to and from the SESA Manager. To monitor and process communications, the SESA Agent uses various providers, each of which assists with some type of SESA Agent function, such as SESA logging, configuration, state, and inventory services. In SESA 2.0, SESA Agents include a
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new heartbeat provider, which determines the state of all of the other SESA Agent providers.
When a SESA Directory or SESA DataStore component is installed on the same computer as the SESA Manager, the SESA Agent that is automatically installed with the SESA Manager handles the communication and heartbeat monitoring for the SESA Directory and SESA DataStore components, too. However, when a SESA Directory or SESA DataStore is installed remotely from the SESA Manager, you must install an additional SESA Agent to provide heartbeat monitoring between the SESA Manager and the other SESA component.
Installing a SESA Agent for heartbeat monitoring on a Windows
computer
You run the SESA Installation Wizard to install the SESA Agent.
To install the SESA Agent for heartbeat monitoring on a Windows computer 1 On the SESA Directory or SESA DataStore computer, start the SESA
Installation Wizard.
See“Starting the SESA Installation Wizard” on page 152.
2 When you are prompted to supply a location for temporary installation files, do one of the following:
■ Accept the default location as long as it has 75 MB of free hard disk space available.
■ Type a location or click Browse to find a different location that has 75 MB of hard disk space available.
3 In the Welcome to the SESA Installation panel, review the information, and then click Next.
4 In the SESA License Agreement panel, review the agreement, click I accept the agreement, and then click Next.
If you don’t accept the agreement, you exit the SESA Installation Wizard.
5 In the SESA Preinstallation Requirements Summary panel, confirm that you meet the requirements, and then click Next.
6 In the SESA Install Menu panel, click Advanced Options.
7 In the SESA Advanced Install Menu panel, click Install SESA Agent for Heartbeats.
8 In the Select Working Directory panel, accept the default directory (C:\SESA) or select another location.
If you have a SESA component on this computer, this option will be unavailable and you must accept the existing working directory.
9 In the Existing SESA Directory panel, do the following for the SESA DataStore to connect with the SESA Directory:
10 In the Domain Selection panel, confirm the name of the SESA administrative domain that you typed when you installed the SESA Directory.
11 In the SESA Agent panel, type the IP address of the SESA Manager to which the SESA Agent communicates.
If connections to the SESA Manager computer are made using authenticated SSL, you must type the host name or FQDN of the computer instead of the IP address.
12 In the Agent Organizational Unit panel, select one of the following: ■ Managers: Store information about the SESA Agent in the Managers
organizational unit.
■ Default: Store information about the SESA Agent in the Default organizational unit.
You can view the organizational unit that you select in the Symantec management console.
For more information, see the Symantec Management Console User’s Guide.
13 In the SESA Agent Listen IP panel, do one of the following:
■ If the Windows computer on which you are installing the SESA Manager also acts as a cluster server for Microsoft Windows Network Load Balancing, type the heartbeat IP address of the Microsoft Windows clustering technology.
SESA Directory Administrator Password
Type the Directory Administrator password. The account name is in the form cn=<name> (by default, cn=root). An account with a password is required.
IP Address Type the IP address of the computer on which the SESA Directory is installed. This can be the local computer or a remote computer. SESA Managers use this IP address to communicate with the SESA Directory.
If connections to the SESA Directory computer are made using authenticated SSL, you must type the host name or FQDN of the computer instead of the IP address. Directory port number Type the secure listening port for the SESA Directory (by
default, 636). SESA Managers use this port to communicate with the SESA Directory.
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■ If the Windows computer on which you are installing the SESA Manager is not part of a Microsoft Windows Network Load Balancing system, confirm that the SESA Agent heartbeat IP address is 0.0.0.0. The SESA Installation Wizard installs the SESA Agent on the computer on which you are running the wizard.
14 In the Operation Complete panel, click Next.
15 In the SESA Advanced Install Menu panel, click Main SESA Install Menu.
16 In the SESA Install Menu panel, click Exit the Installer.
17 When you are prompted to exit, click Yes.
18 In the SESA Installation Successful panel, click Finish to complete the SESA Agent installation.