To activate the Deep Security Agent via command line:

1. Open the Deep Security Manager (DSM) console.
2. Go to Administration > System Settings > Agents tab.
3. Under the Remote Activation section, enable the Allow Agent Initiated Activation option and select For any computers.

   

4. On the Security profile to assign (when no security profile is currently assigned) section, select the security profile that you wish to assign or select None.
5. Enable the Allow agent to specify Hostname option.
6. Select Reactivate the existing computer if the computer name already exists.
7. Run any of the following syntax on the Deep Security Agent:
   • dsa_control /a dsm://<host or IP>:<port>/
   • dsa_control -a dsm://<host or IP>:<port>/
    

   The value of "port" refers to the DSM heartbeat port, which is "4120" by default.

For more information, you may refer to Deep Security command line utilities.