About Symantec Small Business edition set up ?

[vrcatherine]

Hi,

I am new to this sysmantec anti-virus stuff.

We recently go the cd's for

SYMANTEC SMALL BUSINESS EDITION 8.0

For clients and work stations.

When i was going through the manual it says
so many things like:

SYMANTEC SYSTEM CENTER
ALERT MANAGEMENT
QUARANTINE CONSOLE
LIVE UPDATE UTILITY.


I am so confused that i did not get the thing what
i wanted.

Please let me know as what all i have to install
as per my requirement:


We have a windows 2000 server and some client work stations.

Each and every system should do there own scanning
in there local systems and get the updates from there
server.

Server should get the latest virus definitions and
automatically update all the clients.


1) What is that i have install from cd on to
windows 2000 server ?


2) On work stations what ?



--Thanks
Cathy

 

[jrjuiliano]

Cathy,

For the most part, on your server (and it doesn't HAVE to be a Windows 2000 Server version, you can actually install it on a PRO computer if you want to) you can install:

SYMANTEC SYSTEM CENTER
ALERT MANAGEMENT
QUARANTINE CONSOLE
LIVE UPDATE UTILITY.

You will also need to do a server rollout on the same machine. This will make it the primary server.

From there you will be able to roll clients out (as long as they are NT, Win2k or higher) using the client rollout from the Symantec System Center.

If you have Win 98 you will need to install the client using the disk and installing it manually.

All those programs you listed are utilities for managing your AV network.

You're going to need to read the manual a little more carefully, as there are a bunch of options on how to configure your clients, and the server.

Hope that helps.

J.R.

 

[vrcatherine]

I have a windows 2000 server to make as a primary server.

I would be installing on this system only.

What do u mean "server rollout".

Do i have to install anything on the client machines(most of them are windows 2000 pro / xp pro) ?

 

[jrjuiliano]

I guess I used "rollout" too many times. Install the Antivirus server software from the Symantec CD to the Windows 2000 Server.

In order to protect your clients (Win2k Pro, XP), you can remotely install the software through the Symantec System Center. Go to "tools" and "NT Client Install".

From there you can configure your clients -- from the Primary Server -- to do scheduled scans, virus definition update schedules and methods, and other options. It's pretty robust.

I've been up for several hours, too much coffee, and I don't have my installation in front of me! So what you see might be slightly different from what I'm writing here. But the principles are the same.

J.R.



J.R.

 

[vrcatherine]

Yeh i did like what you have said and it
installed in one of the client machine.
Thanks


Now here is the thing do we still
have to go to each and every client machine
and schedule VIRUS SCANS.

Or can we schedule all these things from server ?

 

[jrjuiliano]

You can do it from the server.

You should go through the options one at a time. It would be a good idea to write it all down too, as the options get easily forgotten (speaking from personal experience!).

There's also some good options regarding what files get scanned, removable media, scheduled scans and Live Update options. You can even create different groups so that you have options specific to that group.

But the best way is to just go through everything one at a time and see what you have available!

J.R.

 

[vrcatherine]

Ok , thanks for the info i will try them.

SO basically if you have the
symantec business edition, you dont even
have to go to the clients.

Everything can be managed from one main server ?

 

[jrjuiliano]

Yep! The idea is for central administration; makes it easier on us network monkeys...

J.R.

 

[Arkroyal]

One thing to look out for: Check that your clients have enough disk space before rolling out. I could not get two clients done despite appearing to run successfully from the server - there were no errors or warning messages. Found that the client rollout needs about 80(ish)MB at the client end to install correctly.