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If you are a CA Nimsoft Monitor administrator, you can use the Unified Service Manager (USM) portlet to deploy robots automatically. This saves lots of time compared to manually deploying a robot to each system where you want one.
Using automatic robot deployment in USM you can:
- Deploy robots to all, or selected, members of a group
- Deploy a robot to a specific system
- Do a Basic or Advanced Search for systems to deploy robots to
- Import an XML file listing systems to deploy robots to
Once you select the systems and start a deployment job, robots are automatically installed on the selected systems.
In order to select in USM the systems to deploy robots to, the systems must have known credentials. Credential information is entered in the Discovery Wizard and is associated with systems during discovery. Systems that do not have known credentials cannot be selected in the UI for automatic robot deployment. When importing a list of systems from an XML file, however, the credentials are specified in the XML file and the systems do not need to have known credentials through the discovery process.
You must have the USM Automatic Robot Installation ACL permission in order to deploy robots automatically. Account contact users cannot deploy robots automatically. Also, the automated_deployment_engine probe version 1.10 or later must be running in your environment.
Administrators can also use either the GUI or the command-line interface for the automated_deployment_engine probe to automatically deploy robots. For more information on these methods, see the CA Nimsoft Monitor Server Installation Guide.
For more information on deploying robots automatically, see the help topic Deploy Robots Automatically.