Installation
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Avira Security Management Center
Avira GmbH
Installation Steps
You will perform the following installation steps:
1. SMC Server installation;
2. SMC Frontend installation.
After carrying out these steps, you will configure the SMC, add computers into the
Security Environment, install and manage SMC Agents and Avira products over
the network, as described in the following Chapters.
3.2
Performing Installation
3.2.1 Installing SMC Server
3
You need
administrator access
to the server.
3
The
ports
required by SMC Server must be opened (in the firewall if necessary)
and they must not be used by other applications.
Download the current version of Avira SMC as a .zip archive from the Avira
website (
http://www.avira.com
) and extract it to a local directory.
Double-click the self-extracting archive:
AntiVir_Security_Management_Center_Server_en.exe
.
A dialog window with a security warning appears.
Click
Accept
, to start the setup.
The installation files are unzipped. The
InstallShield Wizard
begins.
Click
Next
.
The
License Agreement
window appears.
Activate the "
I accept...
" option after reading the license agreement and click
Next
.
The next window appears:
Choose Destination Location
.
Change the path for installation, if necessary, and click
Next
.
You will see the
Configuration
window for IP address and server ports.
(see
3.1 Important Information on Installation
above)
Set the
Network Interface
, if necessary, and confirm with
Next
.
After the wizard checks the network configuration, a window for entering the
user data appears.
Enter the
Administrative account
and
Account password
for operating on this
computer and click
Next
.
