McAfee MANAGEMENT EDITION 2.5 User manual

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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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

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Getting Started Guide 5
1Introducing 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*
(forWindows95,Windows98,WindowsNT,andWindows3.1x) 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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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.

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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.

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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 [phone] 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 [e-mail]
CompuServe GO NAI
America Online keyword MCAFEE

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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 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. 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 [phone].
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 [phone] or
e-mail to tvd_documentatio[email protected].
Phone [phone]
Fax [phone]
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Fax [phone]

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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:
[e-mail] 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
[e-mail] Use this address to send questions or
virus samples gathered with Dr
Solomon’s Anti-Virus Toolkit software
to our offices in Germany
[e-mail] Use this address to send questions or
virus samples to our offices in Japan
and East Asia
[e-mail] 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: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Network Associates
Austria
Pulvermuehlstrasse 17
Linz, Austria
Postal Code A-4040
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Network Associates
Belgique
BDC Heyzel Esplanade, boîte 43
1020 Bruxelles
Belgique
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Network Associates
do Brasil
Rua Geraldo Flausino Gomez 78
Cj. - 51 Brooklin Novo - São Paulo
SP - 04575-060 - Brasil
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Network Associates
Canada
139 Main Street, Suite 201
Unionville, Ontario
Canada L3R 2G6
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
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: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Network Associates Denmark
Lautruphoej 1-3
2750 Ballerup
Danmark
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
NA Network Associates Oy
Sinikalliontie 9, 3rd Floor
02630 Espoo
Finland
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

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Network Associates
France S.A.
50 Rue de Londres
75008 Paris
France
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Network Associates
Deutschland GmbH
Ohmstraße 1
D-85716 Unterschleißheim
Deutschland
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Network Associates Hong Kong
19th Floor, Matheson Centre
3 Matheson Way
Causeway Bay
Hong Kong 63225
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Network Associates Srl
Centro Direzionale Summit
Palazzo D/1
Via Brescia, 28
20063 - Cernusco sul Naviglio (MI)
Italy
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Network Associates Japan, Inc.
Toranomon 33 Mori Bldg.
3-8-21 Toranomon Minato-Ku
Tokyo 105-0001 Japan
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Network Associates Latin America
1200 S. Pine Island Road, Suite 375
Plantation, Florida 33324
United States
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Network Associates
de Mexico
Andres Bello No. 10, 4 Piso
4th Floor
Col. Polanco
Mexico City, Mexico D.F. 11560
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Network Associates
International B.V.
Gatwickstraat 25
1043 GL Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

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Network Associates
Portugal
Av. da Liberdade, 114
1269-046 Lisboa
Portugal
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Net Tools Network Associates
South Africa
Bardev House, St. Andrews
Meadowbrook Lane
Epson Downs, P.O. Box 7062
Bryanston, Johannesburg
South Africa 2021
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Network Associates
South East Asia
78 Shenton Way
#29-02
Singapore 079120
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Network Associates
Spain
Orense 4, 4aPlanta.
Edificio Trieste
28020 Madrid, Spain
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Network Associates Sweden
Datavägen 3A
Box 596
S-175 26 Järfälla
Sweden
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Network Associates AG
Baeulerwisenstrasse 3
8152 Glattbrugg
Switzerland
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Network Associates
Taiwan
Suite 6, 11F, No. 188, Sec. 5
Nan King E. Rd.
Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Network Associates
International Ltd.
Minton Place, Victoria Street
Windsor, Berkshire
SL4 1EG
United Kingdom
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

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Getting Started Guide 15
2Installing 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 17MB of RAM: 16MB of RAM (random-access memory) for the
Management Console; at least 1MB of RAM for the anti-virus components
•At least 15MB of free hard disk space for the Management Console
•At least 15MB 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
ÈIMPORTANT: 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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•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.
ÈIMPORTANT: 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.

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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

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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.
ÈIMPORTANT: 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

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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

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Installation steps
ÈIMPORTANT: 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 OK.