User manual AVIRA SECURITY MANAGEMENT CENTER 2.5 SUPPORT 03-2010

[. . . ] Avira Security Management Center | HowTo Avira Security Management Center 2. 5 Support März 2010 www. avira. com Errors in design and contents cannot be excluded © Avira GmbH Status: March 2010 1 Contents 1. Installation of the SMC Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Installation of the SMC Frontend. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Starting the SMC and Logon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] / / ), something is If clients are related to groups which are not shown with the possibility to enlarge them the respectively shown red !In such a case the red group icon will give a hint: The error status (the cause of the red !) can be found out by clicking on the client with the right mouse button and choosing "View" , , Product Status". An error status (red !) can also be caused by a not activated "AntiVir Guard" (real time protection), "AntiVir Mailguard" (POP3/SMTP-Scanner), the "AntiVir Planer" or "AntiVir WebGuard": Status: March 2010 19 Avira Security Management Center | HowTo Illustration 16: Modules The reset of the status message that is shown by the red "!" can only be carried out by removing the cause of the error message. In our case it would be automatically reset after an update on the concerned clients (a short waiting time up to a minute is possible). "Module status" ­ "Not available" means that the update process has not a module. during the installation of the AntiVir SMC Agent or of any other Avira products a red stop sign appears. This error message can be seen via a click with the right mouse button on the client and then via "Views" "Error Messages". = = Error Message Warning/Hint Stop messages are not automatically reset. They remain even if the cause of the stop message has already been removed. They have to be reset by a mouse click with the right mouse button "Reset Error Status" 11. 3. Configuration of the Avira AntiVir Professional Via the SMC all functions are available that can be adjusted locally at the client. In order to get to the configuration of the Avira AntiVir Professional click on the group that has to be configured with the right mouse button and choose "Configuration" , , AVIRA AntiVir Professional "Configure". Here you can make changes similar to the local configuration of the client. Status: March 2010 20 Avira Security Management Center | HowTo If you administer clients of Avira AntiVir Professional Version 8 the path to the configuration is "AntiVir Workstation configure". In case of AntiVir Professional 8 XML templates are used for the configuration: Illustration 17: XML template of the AntiVir Professional 8 In the Avira AntiVir Professional Version 10 gui plugins were installed by which the layout of the configuration gui is nearly identical to the gui of the clients. That is why you see in the Avira Professional 10 the same menu as you would find them on the local client: Status: March 2010 21 Avira Security Management Center | HowTo Illustration 18: Configuration of the AntiVir Professional 10 The Update configuration can be found in each configuration of the clients underneath the point "General" and "Update". Choose the update procedure "via internet" or "via fileserver/share. In case of the update "via webserver" you have to consider that the clients will not inevitably download the updates via the internet. The update is done via a webserver which also can be located in a local network (not in the internet). The SMC 2. 0 offers you an already included Internet Update Manager which also works as a webserver on port 7080. The advantages of using http for the updates are: Several update servers can be entered; in case the first one cannot be reached the following registered one will be used In case of the configuration of a laptop the internal webserver can be named as the first update server and the internet update server of AVIRA can be defined as the second update server. If the laptop is used far from the enterprise network the updates will be done via the second update server, the AVIRA server. It is not necessary to care about the authentication of the share which is important for the use of "via filesharing". 22 Status: March 2010 Avira Security Management Center | HowTo The configuration of the update , , via webserver" can look as follows using the Avira AntiVir Professional 10: Illustration 19: Configuration of the AntiVir Professional 10 The configuration of the updates , , via filesharing" in the AV10 can look as follows: Illustration 20: Configuration AntiVir Professional 10 ­ Update via file server Status: March 2010 23 Avira Security Management Center | HowTo Using the update option "via filesharing" you should not forget to enable the destination directory "httproot" (root directory for the updated files) of the Internet Update Manager via the file system (read access is sufficient). [. . . ] http://www. mydownload. com or http://10. 40. 0. 5) for the update can be entered in the registry ". Further details about the configuration of the updater can be found in the manual for Avira AntiiIr UNIX Server (chapter 4 configuration). 17. 4. Installation and Configuration of Avira AntiVir UNIX WebGate Before you can start with the Installation, the product package for Avira AntiVir UNIX WebGate has to be added to the software packages of the SMC and a license has to be entered. In order to start the installation of Avira AntiVir UNIX WebGate, click on the knot security environment and as the case may be on the group / the computer where Avira AntiVir WebGate shall be installed. [. . . ]