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Packager and Installer Environment

The Packager resides on a dedicated Packaging Computer within a network domain. The domain consists of a domain manager, one or more Packaging Computers, scalability servers, and a great number of networked target computers. Scalability servers are installed between the domain manager and the agents to improve network communications.

When you have finished packaging software, data, or parameters, on the Packaging Computer, you register the packaged product in the Software Package Library on the manager system. From the manager's Explorer you create and distribute orders to install the products on target computers in the network.

The Installer resides on a target computer, where it installs and removes software in response to an installation or uninstallation order from the manager system. Software Delivery agent functionality must be installed on all target computers where you want to install and manage software.

The Packager and Installer are 32-bit programs that can run on 64-bit Windows operating environments. Due to the file system and registry redirection performed by the operating systems, the Packager and Installer can handle 32-bit applications only. To support 64-bit applications, the Packager and Installer switch off the file system and registry redirection.