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GEODI 311 - Discovery Agent(GDE) Deployment

GEODI 311 - Discovery Agent(GDE) Deployment

Purpose

This course covers the deployment of GEODI discovery tools/agents to end computers. The course covers GEODI specific topics only, it is assumed that you are familiar with ManageEngine, PDQ or any other system developed for deployment of agents.

 

Content

Technical

Duration

30min

Application

Prerequisite Trainings

-

Scope

 

Questions

 

Supporting Material

 

  • Trainings are intended to give you a general idea. You need to reinforce what you’ve learned by applying it. Some of the features mentioned in the training may not be included in your license.

 

Course Scope

Discovery Agent - GEODI Desktop Explorer(GDE) Installation

  1. What is GDE?

  2. EndPoints GDE Setup

  3. Agent Management Panel

  4. Typical problems/issues and solutions

    1. Port issues

    2. Identifying and customizing the right directories and content

    3. Lots of EndPoint and queues

    4. Querying the data received with GDE

    5. Querying data from a specific machine

    6. GDE continuous exploration

    7. GDE EndPoint resource utilization

  5. GDE update

  6. GDE Setup for Servers, GDE Service

  7. Linux and MacOS Machines

  8. Other

    1. Classification with GDE

    2. Actions, destruction, quarantine with GDE

    3. Let everyone see their data

    4. EndPoint data backup

Scope of Practice and Assignments

GDE will be installed on a client. You are expected to install GDE, and show the results of the discovery. Before this installation you are expected to check that the default port 1982 is open and that the clients can see the GEODI server.

 

  1. Check port and other conditions

  2. Create a temporary directory to explore on the client. GDE settings should be changed accordingly.

  3. Install GDE → Installation can be manual, if you have competence for a tool such as ManageEngine, SCCM you can also use these tools.

  4. Confirm that the client appears in the Agent Management Panel

  5. See/Report results in GEODI interface

  6. Search GDE and see if files open and display

 

Client Based Customization

For a second client you can customize the GDE settings depending on the IP. The scope of customization may need to cover directories in general or file types to be omitted.

 

Linux or MacOS Client Setup

You should install on a Linux or MacOS machine depending on access and needs. The MSI installation for Windows is not valid in these environments.

 

Installation as a service

GEODI can discover FileServers directly or via SSH without an agent. Depending on the needs, you can install GDE as a service on windows servers, if you want discovery with agents.

 

 

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