Miradore Client Deployer for Windows

Miradore Client Deployer enables you to deploy Miradore Clients to Windows computers remotely.

Good to know

The Client Deployer can be installed to the Miradore Management Suite server or to another computer running Microsoft Windows®.

One Miradore Client Deployer can serve only one instance of Miradore Management Suite, but you can host multiple Miradore Client Deployers on the same server for different instances of Miradore.

You can find the Miradore Client Deployer's installer from <Miradore server installation directory>\Connectors\Client deployer directory.

Miradore Client Deployer fetches the client installer from Miradore's installation directory "Setup\_System\Miradore\_Current", even if the media master installation point wouldn't be located on the Miradore server.

Features

Distributes a Miradore Client to Windows computers remotely
Can be installed to customers' network (when using Miradore Management Suite as a hosted service)
Removes the need to open more ports from firewall between customer and service provider
Inventory and distribution jobs can be requested from tasks menu in many views
One Miradore instance can use multiple client deployers. The preferred Miradore Client Deployer can be selected when starting new deployments in Miradore
Possibility to select the user account that is used to run Miradore Client Deployer
Multiple concurrent deployments (by default, limited to 20)
Failed deployments are retried every one hour within expiration time configured in the system settings of Miradore

Requirements

The computer hosting Miradore Client Deployer must run Windows operating system
Administrative credentials to target computers (typically a domain account)
Miradore Client Deployer must be able to connect to the IPC$ network share on the target computer
Open HTTPS (TCP 443), RPC (TCP 135) and SMB (TCP 445) ports as depicted in the Network architecture picture below
- Internal firewalls should allow Windows RPC connections from the deployment server to client computers
- Port 135/TCP should be open to clients & no network address translation in between

Network architecture

Installation using Windows Installer

Run ”Client deployer.msi” installer file.
Set connector configurations. All fields must be filled before Next button can be pressed.

Miradore server name: Host name or IP-address of the server hosting Miradore Management Suite. Collected data is sent to this server.
Miradore instance name: Name of your Miradore Management Suite instance.
Miradore server port: TCP/IP port that Miradore server uses. By default it is 80.
Use HTTPS: This option defines protocol (HTTP/HTTPS) that is used when Miradore Client Deployer sends result file to the Miradore server.
Ignore SSL errors: If checked, all SSL certificate errors are ignored.
Use proxy: If checked, connector uses proxy server to connect with Miradore server.
Proxy server: Host name or IP-address of proxy server.
Proxy port: Proxy server’s port
Proxy authentication method: Authentication method that proxy server uses. Available methods: none, basic, digest and NTLM
Proxy user name: User name for proxy server
Proxy password: Password for proxy server

Set Windows Task Scheduler configurations.
1. Add to Scheduled Tasks checkbox: if checked, Miradore client deployer task is added to Windows Scheduled Task and all fields must be filled before Next button can be pressed.
2. Start time: Miradore client deployer is run daily at this time.
3. User account: Select to use SYSTEM account or give username and password that is used to run task.
4. [Domain\] User Name: Scheduler will run task as it was started by this user. Add domain if needed.
5. Password and Retype password: User’s password. Passwords must match.
Start installation
After the installation has finished, navigate to "System settings > Connectors" in the management console of Miradore and open the deployer item.
On the item page, go to section "Accounts and passwords" and enter default username and password to be used for client deployment
Authorize client deployer, see Connector authorization
Test that client connector works properly

How to upgrade Miradore Client Deployer

You can update an existing Miradore Client Deployer simply by running a newer Miradore Client Deployer installer. This installs a new deployer version on top of the previous one. The installer doesn't recognize the existing component, so you need to input the connector configurations manually. Miradore Management Suite remembers the authorization/validation key for Miradore Client Deployer. This means that you don't need to re-authorize the client deployer after upgrade.

Technical description

Miradore Client Deployer