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You have been tasked with building a payroll program for a large organization with offices spread across the United States. The company has one larger data center that each office connects to via a wide area network. A wide area network spans long distances and can connect LANs that are continents apart. When a user accesses data on a LANs or WANs are called distributed systems. The capabilities of a distributed system depend on the power and capacity of the underlying data communication network. Compared to mainframe architecture, distributed systems increase concerns about data security and integrity because many individual clients require access to perform processing.

The writer's system would be consisting of the following items. Server-is installed to a LAN and has been configured as an EDGE device. This means that the designated port (default being 8020 and is configurable) should be accessible through Internet. You need to adopt necessary security standards to harden the OS where the Desktop Central Server is installed. Agents from all the remote locations report to this Desktop Central Server.

The Server acts as a container to store the configuration details and, upon request, provide the instructions to a location. It is advised to keep the Desktop Central server always running to carry out the day-to-day Desktop Management activities. Desktop Central Distribution Server is lightweight software that is installed in one of the computers in the Branch Offices. This agent will communicate with the Desktop Central Server to pull the information for all the computers in that branch. The agents that reside in the branch office computers will contact the Distribution Server to get the information available to them and process the requests.

Agent can be installed either manually or using a logon script in all the branch-office computers that are being managed using Desktop Central. This task is a one-time task. Desktop Central offers two options to help...