McAfee MANAGEMENT EDITION 2.5 Getting Started Manual

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Management Edition

Getting Started Guide

Version 2.5

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Getting Started Guide iii

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introducing the Management Edition Program . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

What is the Management Edition program? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

How does the Management Edition program work? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Management Edition program features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

New functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Seamlessly interactive management tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Automated software distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Real-time virus detection and notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Conventions used in this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

How to contact Network Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Customer service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Technical support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Network Associates training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Comments and feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Reporting new items for anti-virus data file updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

International contact information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Chapter 2. Installing the Management Edition Program . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Hardware recommended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Software supported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Defining anti-virus domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Installing the Management Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Installation scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Option 1: Local machine/server – one anti-virus domain manager . . . . . 17

Option 2: Server/server – more than one anti-virus domain manager . . . 18

Option 3: Local machine/local machine – ten machines or fewer . . . . . . 18

Option 4: Local machine/server – ten machines or fewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Installation steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

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iv Management Edition

Running the Management Console (initial use) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Installing the master repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Installing anti-virus components in the Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Understanding the Management Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Menu bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

Font bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Left pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Right pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41

Status bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Upgrading the Management Edition program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Getting Started Guide 5

Introducing the Management

Edition Program

Introduction

As a network administrator, your time is valuable. You’re responsible for

maintaining your corporate network at its optimum. The Management Edition

program solves your need for timely, efficient, and cost-effective

enterprise-wide anti-virus software distribution. With it, you can seamlessly

install, configure, and manage anti-virus software for remote networked

machines within anti-virus domains that you create.

What is the Management Edition program?

The Management Edition program is Network Associates* real-time software

distribution system, which installs, configures, upgrades, and removes

anti-virus software for remote machines on a network. The Management

Edition software helps protect your network from attacks by enabling

centralized upgrading of your network’s anti-virus software, as well as

centralized alerting of detected attacks. It reduces the time you must spend

installing and managing anti-virus software, particularly on large networks,

ensuring uninterrupted network security.

The Management Edition software helps you safeguard one of your most

important assets—your data—by delivering timely upgrades of VirusScan*

(for Windows95, Windows98, WindowsNT, and Windows3.1x) and

NetShield* for Windows NT. Anti-virus software distribution is an important

element in a comprehensive security program that includes a variety of safety

measures, such as regular use of encryption and intrusion detection software,

backups, meaningful password protection, training, and security awareness.

Network Associates urges you to set up and comply with such a security

program.

How does the Management Edition program work?

The Management Edition program installs software to member machines in

the anti-virus domains that you create, from software repositories (master,

mirror, and linked) that you create. You control these activities from the

Management Console, a drag-and-drop application that runs on Microsoft

Windows NT.

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6 Management Edition

You can install the Management Edition program on the local hard disk drive

of the administrator’s workstation. You will need a Microsoft Windows NT

Domain Administrator account.

NOTE: You must install the Management Console and the Management

Server only on a Windows NT system. (The Management Console runs

only on Windows NT 4.0, and the Management Server runs on Windows

NT 3.51 or later.) Both applications, however, handle all tasks in the same

way across all Management Agent workstation platforms (Windows NT,

Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 3.x, and Novell NetWare 3.12 or

later), which means less time spent learning new systems.

Most of the program’s functionality is built into these integrated services:

• Management Console.

Use the Management Console to configure and

install anti-virus software on any machines in the anti-virus domain. For

details, see Chapter 3, “Creating Anti-virus Domains” and Chapter 5,

“Updating Your Anti-virus Software,” in your online Administrator’s

Guide.

• Management Server. Use the Management Server to coordinate the

scheduling of scans, receive alerts, and generate reports for the entire

anti-virus domain. For details, see Chapter 4, “Creating Schedules,” in

your online Administrator’s Guide.

• Management Agent. Use the Management Agent to initiate on-demand

scans via the Scheduler, and to send virus alerts from on-demand and

on-access scans back to the Management Server. For details, see Chapter

4, “Creating Schedules,” in your online Administrator’s Guide.

• Alert Manager. Use the Alert Manager to configure alert notification

settings. When the anti-virus software managed by the Management

Edition program detects malicious activity on your servers, you can be

notified immediately by one or more of a wide variety of notification

methods. For details, see Chapter 6, “Using the Alert Manager,” in your

online Administrator’s Guide.

These services work together to provide easy management of machines in

your anti-virus domain. Each service is configurable through a console. To

access the Alert Manager settings from the Management Console, click

Anti-Virus Domain(s)

, an individual domain, a members group, or an

individual machine, and then click the

Component Configuration

toolbar button.

Getting Started Guide 7

Introducing the Management Edition Program

Management Edition program features

This version of the Management Edition program builds on the strengths of

previous versions, extending the established functionality and providing new

features to help you manage your network anti-virus solutions. See the

WHATSNEW.TXT file included with the software for a full list of new features

and information on the latest changes.

New functionality

• The Management Edition program now supports NetShield for NetWare

v4.1.1 anti-virus software.

• Forced updates of invalid external mirrors give you more control over how

and when mirror repositories are updated.

• This release includes the ability to configure custom tools—such as the

additional console required to configure remote NetShield for NetWare

servers—that can be launched from the

Tools

menu in the Management

Console.

• You can now use the Repository’s Products page to update product files

such as SETUP.EXE or SETUP.ISS in addition to script (MCSCRIPT.INI)

and extension .DLL files.

• You can now define custom messages that can be appear immediately

before or after a client update.

• This release features enhanced control over Name Provider-installed

machines.

Seamlessly interactive management tools

• The Management Console lets you configure and install anti-virus

software on any machines in the anti-virus domain from any Windows NT

machine on which it is installed.

• The Management Server coordinates the scheduling of scans, receives

alerts, and generates reports for the entire anti-virus domain from the

Windows NT machine on which it is installed.

• The Management Agent provides client installers for Windows 95 and

Windows NT machines that have peer networking disabled or removed, so

that you can add them to the network without need for file sharing.

• The diagnostics wizard gathers information in an e-mailable format and

helps our technical support staff solve your problems faster.

Introducing the Management Edition Program

8 Management Edition

Automated software distribution

• The Management Console enables enhanced distribution speeds to a large

number of machines and efficiently stores domain and machine

information as registry entries (not .INI files).

• An enhanced Batch Install method lets desktop and laptop users initiate an

update upon login for fast installation of anti-virus software and updates.

• Linked repositories reduce WAN traffic by allowing you to distribute

software between repositories without having to install software from

separate CD-ROM discs.

• Different language versions of the same anti-virus software can co-exist in

a single repository. You specify the language version to be distributed for

each machine, group, or domain.

• Software installation reports show which anti-virus software is installed on

which machines, which machines are in which anti-virus domain, and

which machines have a non-standard configuration.

Real-time virus detection and notification

• On-access (inbound and outbound) anti-virus scanning provides real-time

identification of both known and unknown viruses upon file access, create,

copy, rename, and run; disk access; system startup; and system shutdown.

• On-demand anti-virus scanning offers user-initiated detection of known

boot, file, macro, multi-partite, stealth, encrypted, and polymorphic

viruses located within files, drives (local and network), and diskettes.

• The Alert Manager offers centralized virus notification via alphanumeric

pager, SMTP e-mail, SNMP messaging, DMI alerting, audible alerting,

network broadcast, program execution, and Windows NT event logging.

(For details, see Chapter 6, “Using the Alert Manager,” in your online

Administrator’s Guide.)

• At-a-glance scan status via the anti-virus domain view reveals whether a

machine is all clear, infected, or overdue for a scan.

• Scans can be scheduled for entire member groups, as well as individual

machines or the whole domain.

• Virus-scan reports display how many virus alerts have occurred over a

specified period of time on specified machines.

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Introducing the Management Edition Program

Conventions used in this guide

The following describes the typeface conventions used in this guide:

How to contact Network Associates

Customer service

To order products or obtain product information, contact the Network

Associates Customer Care department at (408) 988-3832 or write to the

following address:

Network Associates, Inc.

McCandless Towers

3965 Freedom Circle

Santa Clara, CA 95054-1203

U.S.A.

Technical support

Network Associates is famous for its dedication to customer satisfaction. We

have continued this tradition by making our site on the World Wide Web a

valuable resource for answers to technical support issues. We encourage you

to make this your first stop for answers to frequently asked questions, for

updates to Network Associates software, and for access to Network Associates

news and virus information

If you do not find what you need or do not have web access, try one of our

automated services.

Bold

Menu names, commands, buttons, and dialog box options

are shown in a bold sans-serif font.

Sans-serif font

Folder, icon, and computer key names, as well as screen text

on the software, are shown in a sans-serif font.

Keystrokes

Text that the user must type in as a command or as a text

box entry (e.g., a pathname) is shown in a monospaced font.

Variables

Command-line text for which you must supply a value is

shown in an italic sans-serif font.

World Wide Web http://support.nai.com

Internet support@nai.com

CompuServe GO NAI

America Online keyword MCAFEE

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10 Management Edition

If the automated services do not have the answers you need, contact Network

Associates at one of the following numbers Monday through Friday between

6:00

. and 6:00

. Pacific time.

For corporate-licensed customers:

For retail-licensed customers:

To provide the answers you need quickly and efficiently, the Network

Associates technical support staff needs some information about your

computer and your software. Please have this information ready before you

call:

• Product name and version number

• Computer brand and model

• Any additional hardware or peripherals connected to your computer

• Operating system type and version numbers

• Network type and version, if applicable

• Contents of your AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS, and system LOGIN

script

• Specific steps to reproduce the problem

Network Associates training

For information about scheduling on-site training for any Network Associates

product, call (800) 338-8754.

Comments and feedback

Network Associates appreciates your comments and reserves the right to use

any information you supply in any way it believes appropriate without

incurring any obligation whatsoever. Please address your comments about

Network Associates anti-virus product documentation to: Network

Associates, Inc., 15220 NW Greenbrier Parkway, Suite 100, Beaverton, OR

97006-5762, U.S.A. You can also send faxed comments to (503) 531-7655 or

e-mail to tvd_documenta[email protected].

Phone (408) 988-3832

Fax (408) 970-9727

Phone (972) 855-7044

Fax (408) 970-9727

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Introducing the Management Edition Program

Reporting new items for anti-virus data file updates

Network Associates anti-virus software offers you the best available detection

and removal capabilities, including advanced heuristic scanning that can

detect new and unnamed viruses as they emerge. Occasionally, however, an

entirely new type of virus that is not a variation on an older type can appear

on your system and escape detection.

Because Network Associates researchers are committed to providing you with

effective and up-to-date tools you can use to protect your system, please tell

them about any new Java classes, ActiveX controls, dangerous websites, or

viruses that your software does not now detect. Note that Network Associates

reserves the right to use any information you supply as it deems appropriate,

without incurring any obligations whatsoever. Send your questions or virus

samples to:

To report items to our European research office, use these e-mail addresses:

To report items to our Asia-Pacific research office, or our office in Japan, use

one of these e-mail addresses:

virus_research@nai.com Use this address to send questions or

virus samples to our North America

and South America offices

vsampl[email protected]om Use this address to send questions or

virus samples gathered with Dr

Solomon’s Anti-Virus Toolkit* software

to our offices in the United Kingdom

virus_research_europ[email protected] Use this address to send questions or

virus samples to our offices in Western

Europe

virus_research_de@nai.com Use this address to send questions or

virus samples gathered with Dr

Solomon’s Anti-Virus Toolkit software

to our offices in Germany

virus_research_japan@nai.com Use this address to send questions or

virus samples to our offices in Japan

and East Asia

virus_research_apac@nai.com Use this address to send questions or

virus samples to our offices in Australia

and South East Asia

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International contact information

To contact Network Associates outside the United States, use the addresses,

phone numbers and fax numbers below.

Network Associates

Australia

Level 1, 500 Pacific Highway

St. Leonards, NSW

Sydney, Australia 2065

Phone: 61-2-8425-4200

Fax: 61-2-9439-5166

Network Associates

Austria

Pulvermuehlstrasse 17

Linz, Austria

Postal Code A-4040

Phone: 43-732-757-244

Fax: 43-732-757-244-20

Network Associates

Belgique

BDC Heyzel Esplanade, boîte 43

1020 Bruxelles

Belgique

Phone: 0032-2 478.10.29

Fax: 0032-2 478.66.21

Network Associates

do Brasil

Rua Geraldo Flausino Gomez 78

Cj. - 51 Brooklin Novo - São Paulo

SP - 04575-060 - Brasil

Phone: (55 11) 5505 1009

Fax: (55 11) 5505 1006

Network Associates

Canada

139 Main Street, Suite 201

Unionville, Ontario

Canada L3R 2G6

Phone: (905) 479-4189

Fax: (905) 479-4540

Network Associates

People’s Republic of China

New Century Office Tower, Room 1557

No. 6 Southern Road Capitol Gym

Beijing

People’s Republic of China 100044

Phone: 8610-6849-2650

Fax: 8610-6849-2069

Network Associates Denmark

Lautruphoej 1-3

2750 Ballerup

Danmark

Phone: 45 70 277 277

Fax: 45 44 209 910

NA Network Associates Oy

Sinikalliontie 9, 3rd Floor

02630 Espoo

Finland

Phone: 358 9 5270 70

Fax: 358 9 5270 7100

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Introducing the Management Edition Program

Network Associates

France S.A.

50 Rue de Londres

75008 Paris

France

Phone: 33 1 44 908 737

Fax: 33 1 45 227 554

Network Associates

Deutschland GmbH

Ohmstraße 1

D-85716 Unterschleißheim

Deutschland

Phone: 49 (0)89/3707-0

Fax: 49 (0)89/3707-1199

Network Associates Hong Kong

19th Floor, Matheson Centre

3 Matheson Way

Causeway Bay

Hong Kong 63225

Phone: 852-2832-9525

Fax: 852-2832-9530

Network Associates Srl

Centro Direzionale Summit

Palazzo D/1

Via Brescia, 28

20063 - Cernusco sul Naviglio (MI)

Italy

Phone: 39 02 92 65 01

Fax: 39 02 92 14 16 44

Network Associates Japan, Inc.

Toranomon 33 Mori Bldg.

3-8-21 Toranomon Minato-Ku

Tokyo 105-0001 Japan

Phone: 81 3 5408 0700

Fax: 81 3 5408 0780

Network Associates Latin America

1200 S. Pine Island Road, Suite 375

Plantation, Florida 33324

United States

Phone: (954) 452-1731

Fax: (954) 236-8031

Network Associates

de Mexico

Andres Bello No. 10, 4 Piso

4th Floor

Col. Polanco

Mexico City, Mexico D.F. 11560

Phone: (525) 282-9180

Fax: (525) 282-9183

Network Associates

International B.V.

Gatwickstraat 25

1043 GL Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Phone: 31 20 586 6100

Fax: 31 20 586 6101

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14 Management Edition

Network Associates

Portugal

Av. da Liberdade, 114

1269-046 Lisboa

Portugal

Phone: 351 1 340 4543

Fax: 351 1 340 4575

Net Tools Network Associates

South Africa

Bardev House, St. Andrews

Meadowbrook Lane

Epson Downs, P.O. Box 7062

Bryanston, Johannesburg

South Africa 2021

Phone: 27 11 706-1629

Fax: 27 11 706-1569

Network Associates

South East Asia

78 Shenton Way

#29-02

Singapore 079120

Phone: 65-222-7555

Fax: 65-220-7255

Network Associates

Spain

Orense 4, 4

Planta.

Edificio Trieste

28020 Madrid, Spain

Phone: 34 9141 88 500

Fax: 34 9155 61 404

Network Associates Sweden

Datavägen 3A

Box 596

S-175 26 Järfälla

Sweden

Phone: 46 (0) 8 580 88 400

Fax: 46 (0) 8 580 88 405

Network Associates AG

Baeulerwisenstrasse 3

8152 Glattbrugg

Switzerland

Phone: 0041 1 808 99 66

Fax: 0041 1 808 99 77

Network Associates

Taiwan

Suite 6, 11F, No. 188, Sec. 5

Nan King E. Rd.

Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Phone: 886-2-27-474-8800

Fax: 886-2-27-635-5864

Network Associates

International Ltd.

Minton Place, Victoria Street

Windsor, Berkshire

SL4 1EG

United Kingdom

Phone: 44 (0)1753 827 500

Fax: 44 (0)1753 827 520

Getting Started Guide 15

Installing the Management

Edition Program

System requirements

Before installing the Management Edition program, verify that your system

has the features shown below, then consider the installation scenarios on

page 16.

Hardware recommended

The Management Edition program will install and run on any IBM PC or

PC-compatible computer equipped with:

• A Pentium processor-class CPU (central processing unit)

• At least 17

MB of RAM:

of RAM (random-access memory) for the

Management Console; at least 1

of RAM for the anti-virus components

• At least 15

of free hard disk space for the Management Console

• At least 15

of free hard disk space for the Repository, which increases as

you add more anti-virus software

NOTE: In order to optimize performance, Network Associates

recommends that you not install the Management Console and the

Repository on the same machine; however, you may prefer to do this for

simplicity.

• A NIC (network interface card) suitable for your network speed

Software supported

IMPORTANT: Neither the Management Server nor the Management

Console has been tested with Windows 2000 Professional or Server.

Network Associates does not currently certify or support running on

these platforms.

• For the Management Console: Windows NT Server or Workstation, v4.0

(with domain administrator rights)

• For the Management Server: Windows NT Server or Workstation, v3.51

and v4.0 (with domain administrator rights), running one or more TCP/IP,

Novell IPX, and NetBIOS protocols

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16 Management Edition

• For anti-virus domain member machines: Windows NT Server or

Workstation, v3.51 or later; Windows 95; Windows 98; Windows for

Workgroups 3.11; Windows 3.1; and Novell NetWare v3.12 or later

• For most machines: a Microsoft peer networking client (except Windows

3.1 or Windows 95 machines with a NetWare client and Name Provider

service, and NetWare servers that do not require a network client)

Defining anti-virus domains

An anti-virus domain is a collection of machines that are running Windows NT,

Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, or

NetWare. It allows you to manage your anti-virus strategy, by grouping large

numbers of machines logically.

Any number of machines are allowed in an anti-virus domain. Before

installing the Management Console software, consider how you want to

divide your organization into management units, or anti-virus domains. You

can manage your whole network as one anti-virus domain, divide it into

several anti-virus domains, or follow the structure of the Microsoft network

domains you've already set up.

The Management Console allows you to create one or more anti-virus

domains, based on how you want to group machines on the network. You can

then install, update, and configure the anti-virus software for all anti-virus

domains, a single anti-virus domain, or a single machine.

Each anti-virus domain must contain a Management Server to provide central

communications, and this must be a Windows NT machine. All other

members of the anti-virus domain will have a Management Agent installed

automatically, with one or more anti-virus components.

Installing the Management Console

The Management Console is the program that controls the configuration and

installation of anti-virus software on machines in the anti-virus domain.

IMPORTANT: The Management Console for version 2.5 of the

Management Edition program runs only on Windows NT 4.0.

The Management Console does not have to run on the Management Server,

and it does not have to run continuously. You use it to install and configure

anti-virus software for Windows NT Workstation, Windows 95, Windows 98,

Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Windows 3.1, and for NetWare. We

recommend that you run the Management Console from the network

administrator’s machine.

Getting Started Guide 17

Installing the Management Edition Program

You can install the Management Console program on a machine’s local hard

disk drive, or on a shared directory on a file server. Installing it to a file server

allows you to run it from different machines that have access to the shared

directory. However, only one machine may run the software at any one time.

Installation scenarios

When you are installing the Management Edition program, consider these

three key items:

• the location of the program files for the Management Console,

• the location of the Repository,

• and the selection of the Management Server.

You can specify each of these as a user’s Windows NT Workstation (referred

to as “local machine”) or a Windows NT Server (referred to as “server”).

Some installation options are more viable than others. We discuss them in the

next section.

Option 1: Local machine/server – one anti-virus domain manager

This is the first of the two main recommended installation options. If a single

person is responsible for the maintenance of your anti-virus solution, we

recommend this configuration.

Installing the program files to a local machine provides the best performance

for the Management Console user on the same machine.

As long as the Windows NT Server is left powered on, this arrangement

allows member machines to update at any time, send on-access alerts back to

the Management Server and scheduled scans can always be initiated by the

Management Server, regardless of when they are set to start.

Program Files location: Local machine

Repository location: Server

Management Server location: Server

Installing the Management Edition Program

18 Management Edition

Option 2: Server/server – more than one anti-virus domain

manager

We recommend this configuration for sites that have more than one person

administering the anti-virus solution.

The program files in this option are stored on a server rather than a local

machine. This allows easy access to the Management Console from any

machine/user that has sufficient access rights to the share/directory on the

server containing the files. However, the performance is slower than Option 1,

because the program and its configuration files are being accessed across the

network.

Option 3: Local machine/local machine – ten machines or fewer

We do not recommend this configuration, but it is usable in small locations

consisting of ten machines or fewer.

Storing the program files on the local machine provides optimal performance

for the Management Console user on the same machine, but restricts its usage

to a single machine unless the local installation directory is shared by that user.

This may be useful when one person has primary responsibility for use of the

Management Console and wants the best performance. Other users who use it

occasionally will have slower access across the network.

IMPORTANT: A Windows NT Workstation has a limit of ten concurrent

connections with other machines; if the Repository is installed on a local

machine, simultaneous updates are limited to no more than ten

machines. With this configuration, sites with more than ten machines

using the Batch Install method will experience poor performance or

possible update failures. To avoid this, such sites can place a repository

on a NetWare server (with sufficient spare connections) and configure

their anti-virus domain members to update from this repository.

Program Files location: Server

Repository location: Server

Management Server location: Server

Program Files location: Local machine

Repository location: Local machine

Management Server location: Local machine

Getting Started Guide 19

Installing the Management Edition Program

The local machine serving as the Management Server should not be powered

off. If it is, it may miss on-access virus alerts that are generated by other

machines and the scheduler may miss sending scheduled events to member

machines while the machine is powered off.

Option 4: Local machine/server – ten machines or fewer

This option, although similar to the previous one, does not rely on the local

workstation being continuously powered on.

As long as the server is continuously powered on, on-access alerts and

scheduled events will not be missed.

However, when the local machine holding the repository is powered off, Batch

installations will fail. Because of the connection restriction for Windows NT

workstations, the limit of ten concurrent updates still applies.

Program Files location: Local machine

Repository location: Local machine

Management Server location: Server

Installing the Management Edition Program

20 Management Edition

Installation steps

IMPORTANT: If you are upgrading from version 2.0 to version 2.5 of the

Management Edition program, you must install your new version to the

same folder as your previous version to preserve your anti-virus domain

configuration.

If you are upgrading from version 1.5 to version 2.0 or later, you must

install the new version to a different folder than the previous version;

otherwise, you cannot proceed with the installation until you remove

previous versions of the Management Edition program from your hard

drive. However, before you remove previous versions of the

Management Edition program, be sure to preserve your anti-virus

domain structure by using the

Import Domain

command on the

File

menu.

The Management Console for version 2.5 of the Management Edition

program runs only on Windows NT 4.0.

Once you have selected one of the four installation options discussed above,

complete the following installation procedure.

Follow these steps to install the Management Console:

1. Before installation, make sure that the machine you are running is

virus-free. Refer to the relevant anti-virus product manual.

2. Start your PC and log on with a user name in the Domain Administrator

group.

3. Insert the Management Edition CD-ROM into the drive.

4. Click

Start

on your Windows taskbar, and then click

Run

5. Enter

SETUP.EXE

in the text box, and then click

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