Adding Computers

To protect computers with Vulnerability ProtectionDeep Security, they must first be added to the Computers list in the Vulnerability ProtectionDeep Security Manager. New computers can be added to your Computers List by:

• Importing computers from a local network If you are protecting computers on a locally accessible network you can add them individually by supplying their IP address or hostname or you can perform a Discovery operation to search for all computers visible to the Vulnerability ProtectionDeep Security Manager.
• Importing a Directory You can import a Microsoft Active Directory or any other LDAP-based directory service.
• Importing computers from a VMware vCenter You can import a VMware vCenter and provide the hosted VMs with Agent-based or Agentless protection.
• Importing computers from a Cloud Provider You can import virtual machines being hosted on VMware vCloud, Amazon EC2, or Microsoft Azure infrastructures.
• Importing computers from Trend Micro OfficeScan You can synchronize with an OfficeScan server and import the OfficeScan endpoints found on the server.
• Using a deployment script If you are going to be adding/protecting a large number of computers you may want to automate the process of installing and activating Agents. You can use the Vulnerability ProtectionDeep Security Manager's deployment script generator to generate scripts you can run on your computers which will install the Agents and optionally perform subsequent tasks like activation and Policy assignment. The scripts are also useful as a starting template to create your own customized scripts to execute various additional available commands.