Configuring Deploy

If you did not install Deploy with the Apply All Tanium recommended configurations option, you must enable and configure certain features.

Install and configure Configure Tanium End-User Notifications

With the Tanium End-User Notifications solution, you can create a notification message with your deployment to Windows and macOS endpoints to notify the user that the system is about to begin a deployment, has completed a deployment, and if postponements are enabled, to give the user the option to postpone the deployment or restart now.

For more information, see Tanium End-User Notifications User Guide: End-User Notifications overview.

Install and configure Configure Tanium Endpoint Configuration

Manage solution configurations with Tanium Endpoint Configuration

Tanium Endpoint Configuration delivers configuration information and required tools for Tanium Solutions to endpoints. Endpoint Configuration consolidates the configuration actions that traditionally accompany additional Tanium functionality and eliminates the potential for timing errors that occur between when a solution configuration is made and the time that configuration reaches an endpoint. Managing configuration in this way greatly reduces the time to install, configure, and use Tanium functionality, and improves the flexibility to target specific configurations to groups of endpoints.

For solutions to Solutions cannot perform configuration changes or tool deployment through Endpoint Configuration on endpoints with action locks turned on, you must enable the Manifest Package Ignore Action Lock and Deploy Client Configuration and Support Package Ignore Action Lock settings. To access these settings, from the Endpoint Configuration Overview page, click Settings and select Global. on. As a best practice, do not turn on action locks. For more information about action locks, see Tanium Console User Guide: Managing action locks.

For more information about Endpoint Configuration, see Tanium Endpoint Configuration User Guide.

If you enabled configuration approvals, the following configuration changes must be approved in Endpoint Configuration before they deploy to endpoints:

• Creating, stopping, or reissuing deployments
• Adding or removing maintenance window enforcements
• Creating, editing, or removing self service profiles
• User-initiated actions, such as initializing endpoints, distributing the software package catalog, updating Deploy Settings

Configure Deploy

(Optional) Configure the Deploy action group

Importing the Deploy module automatically creates an action group to target specific endpoints. If you did not use automatic configuration or you enabled restricted targeting when you imported Deploy, the action group targets No Computers.

If you used automatic configuration and restricted targeting was disabled when you imported Deploy, configuring the Deploy action group is optional.

Select the computer groups to include in the Deploy action group.

Clear the selection for No Computers and make Make sure that all operating systems that are supported by Deploy are included in the Deploy action group.

1. From the Main menu, go to Administration > Actions > Action Groups.
2. Click Tanium Deploy.
3. Select the computer groups that you want to include in the action group and click Save.
   If you select multiple computer groups, choose an operator (AND or OR) to combine the groups.

Organize computer groups

One way to deploy packages or bundles is by computer group. Create relevant computer groups to organize your endpoints. Some options include:

• Endpoint type, such as servers or employee workstations
• Endpoint location, such as by country or time zone
• Endpoint priority, such as business-critical machines

Set up Deploy users

You can use the following set of predefined user roles to set up Deploy users.

To review specific permissions for each role, see User role requirements.

On installation, Deploy creates a Deploy user to automatically manage the Deploy service account. Do not edit or delete the Deploy user.

For more information about assigning user roles, see Tanium Core Platform User Guide: Manage role assignments for a user.

Deploy Administrator

Assign the Deploy Administrator role to users who manage the configuration and deployment of Deploy functionality to endpoints.
This role can perform the following tasks:

• Manage all Deploy settings
• Manage deployments, maintenance windows, and Self Service profiles

Deploy Endpoint Configuration Approver

Assign the Deploy Endpoint Configuration Approver role to a user who approves or rejects Deploy configuration items in Tanium Endpoint Configuration.
This role approves, rejects, or dismisses changes that target endpoints where Deploy is installed.

Deploy Operator

Assign the Deploy Operator role to users who manage the configuration and deployment of Deploy functionality to endpoints.
This role can perform the following tasks:

• Create, edit, import, or delete software packages and software bundles

• Manage deployments, maintenance windows, and Self Service profiles

Deploy Package Administrator

Assign the Deploy Package Administrator role to users who manage the configuration of Deploy functionality.
This role can perform the following tasks:

• Reject or dismiss Deploy configuration changes

• Create, edit, import, or delete software packages and software bundles

• View all configurations, graphs, and reporting data in Deploy

Deploy Read Only User

Assign the Deploy Read Only User role to users who need visibility into Deploy data.
This role can view all configurations, graphs, and reporting data in Deploy.

Deploy User

Assign the Deploy User role to users who manage the deployment of Deploy functionality to endpoints.
This role can manage deployments, maintenance windows, and Self Service profiles.

Do not assign the Deploy Service Account role to users. This role is for internal purposes only.

Configure module settings

1. On the Deploy Overview page, click Settings and then click Configuration Settings if needed.
2. In the Endpoint Process Settings section, configure the following options:
   

   Scan Interval

   Specify how frequently in hours that endpoints complete a full catalog scan. The default value is 24 hours but can be set lower to improve responsiveness to changes on endpoints, such as software that is installed, updated, or removed by programs other than Deploy.

   File Download Retry Limit

   Specify how many times Deploy will attempt to download a file that has failed to download. Setting this option to a higher number can help work around temporary issues, such as bad network connectivity.

   File Download Retry Delay

   Specify the amount of time in seconds, minutes, or hours before the endpoint tries to download a file that has failed to download. Setting this option to a relatively low number, such as 1-5 minutes, can help work around temporary issues without causing an excessive number of download requests.

   File Download Timeout

   Specify the amount of time in hours or days before a download attempt will time out. Setting this option to at least 24 hours helps ensure that large downloads on bandwidth-constrained endpoints have time to complete.

   When Action Lock Enabled

   This option specifies how Deploy behaves on action-locked endpoints. For best results, select either Applicability Scanning Only or Ignore Action Lock to ensure the accuracy of workbench data.

   The Deploy action lock setting does not override the Endpoint Configuration action lock setting. If you do not select Manifest package ignore action lock in Endpoint Configuration settings, then action-locked endpoints do not receive changes to Deploy configurations. For more information, see Tanium Endpoint Configuration User Guide: Reference: Settings and Tanium Console User Guide: Managing action locks.
   The Deploy action lock setting does not override the Endpoint Configuration action lock setting. Action-locked endpoints do not receive changes to Deploy configurations. For more information, see Tanium Console User Guide: Managing action locks.

   Enable Debug Logging

   Select this option to set the Deploy logs on all endpoints to be at the most verbose level. You should use this setting only with guidance from Tanium Support. To configure log verbosity, use the Deploy - Set Logging Options Tanium packages.

   Max Log Size (in MBs)

   Specify the maximum size of logs (in MBs) on an endpoint. Specify an option that allows readability and sufficient logging on an endpoint without utilizing too much disk space.

   Number of Logs to Keep

   Specify the number of log files to keep on an endpoint. Specify an option that allows readability and sufficient logging on an endpoint without utilizing too much disk space.

3. In the Deployment Retry Settings section, configure the following options:
   

   Retry Limit

   Specify how many times Deploy will retry a failed deployment on an endpoint. When Deploy reaches this limit, it will not retry the failed deployment until the Reset Frequency time has been reached.

   Reset Frequency (in hours)

   Specify the amount of time in hours before Deploy will attempt to retry failed downloads after the Retry Limit has been reached. Setting this option to a value less than 24 hours lets failed deployments run multiple times in the same day and can help work around temporary issues.

4. In the General Settings section, configure the following options:
   

   Client API Nonce Roundoff (in minutes)

   This setting enables a timestamp-based nonce for all Tanium Client API calls to avoid reusing previously cached URLs. You should use this setting only with guidance from Tanium Support.

   UNC Path Host Allowed List (comma separated)

   Specify the hostnames and IP addresses, separated by commas, for which the system allows access via UNC paths. The asterisk (*) character is a wildcard that matches any characters or none in a target hostname or IP address.

   Software Package Gallery

   For air-gapped environments, select Enable Alternate Software Package Gallery Location and then specify a location in the Alternate Software Package Gallery Location field. For more information, see Configure an alternate location for the Predefined Package Gallery.

   Auto-Distribute Catalog

   If you want the software package catalog to be automatically distributed, you must select Enable Auto-Distribute Catalog. New installations of Deploy automatically distribute the software package catalog to endpoints when changes are detected. If you do not enable this option, you are prompted to distribute the software package catalog each time an update is detected, and must click Distribute Catalog.

5. Click Save.

Create a custom operating system

To make a specific operating system version available for use in the Restrict Operating System menu for software packages, you can create a new operating system in the Deploy settings.

1. On the Deploy Overview page, click Settings and then click Operating Systems.
2. Click Add Operating System.
3. Select the OS platform, and then specify a name and version.
4. Configure the following settings as needed:

   • (Windows) In the Type drop-down menu, specify whether the OS is for servers or workstations.

   • (Linux) In the Distribution drop-down menu, specify the type of Linux distribution for the OS.

5. Click OK.

Initialize Deploy endpoints

Deploy installs a set of tools on each endpoint that you have targeted. Initializing the endpoints starts the Deploy service and starts the Deploy process on every endpoint where it is not running.

1. On the Deploy Overview page, click Help , and then click Support if needed.
2. Click Initialize Endpoints and confirm your action.

After deploying the tools for the first time, endpoints can take up to four hours to display status.