Understanding the Control Manager Agent Remote Installation

Control Manager 3.5 server can support Trend Virus Control System 1.8x and Control Manager 2.5x and 3.5 agents.

There are two agent remote installation programs:

CMAgentSetup.exe

The basis of this agent installation program is a program similar to the one used in Trend Virus Control System 1.x. All agents required for the corresponding products are contained in this file.

Use the CMAgentSetup.exe to install Trend VCS 1.86 agents for all Trend Micro antivirus products and Control Manager agent for InterScan Messaging Security Suite 5.1 (InterScan Messaging Security Suite 5.15 and above uses RemoteInstall.exe).
RemoteInstall.exe
This is an agent installation tool introduced in Control Manager 2.5. It serves two purposes:
- To install agents to supported product servers
- To upload agent packages to Control Manager servers
This tool differs from the original CMAgentSetup.exe program because it does not actually contain any agents. Instead, it uses agent packages stored on Control Manager servers. The tool merely identifies the target servers, and then the setup programs in the agent packages themselves perform the installation.

After a fresh Control Manager installation, Control Manager servers do not contain agent packages�either the antivirus or content security product uploads and stores their agents to the server, before you can install these agents.
Remote installation is the preferred installation method for deploying agents on large numbers of product servers. This capability allows you to install agents without being physically at the target server.