Promotion refers to the process of converting unmanaged hosts and targets, which have been discovered in your network, to managed hosts and targets in Enterprise Manager so that they can be monitored and managed efficiently. While conversion of unmanaged hosts to managed hosts involves deployment of a Management Agent on those hosts, conversion of unmanaged targets running on those hosts to managed targets involves only adding the targets as manageable entities in Enterprise Manager without deploying any additional component on the hosts.

Figure 1-2 illustrates the promotion process.