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Checksum Control of Package Consistency

If this box is checked, and the package has been tampered with, you cannot distribute the software to any agents. The manager will block its delivery, when it verifies the checksum and finds an error.
Note that the checksum refers to the number of files, their names and size. It does not involve the actual contents of the files.
If a job has been set up for many targets, job execution could (in principle) end differently. For example, the job for the first computer executes OK (checksum verification was successful when this job was to be delivered), but when the job is to be delivered to the next computer, the manager detects a checksum error. The job for the second computer will then end in Error. And so will it for all following target computers, unless the checksum error is corrected.
If DTS is used to deliver the job to many targets (and the checksum control is successful), the package will be sent to all of these targets which then execute the job independently.