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XML Configuration files & ESET Configuration Editor
The ESET Configuration Editor is included with ESET Remote Administrator and can read configuration files
exported by ESET Smart Security (for more information, see the ESET Remote Administrator manual). These
configuration files also include rules and detailed configuration settings from the Personal firewall. The Personal
firewall settings can be found in the Configuration Editor’s tree structure under
ESET Smart Security, ESET NOD32
Antivirus > Personal firewall > Setup
.
The most important attributes in the
Personal firewall > Setup
section are
Filtering mode
and
Rule setup
. These
attributes allow you to specify rules, zones and other parameters. This dialog window looks almost the same as
the one above, except for the option
Discard previous settings on the target computer
. If this option enabled,
all current rules on the target computer will be removed and replaced by those in ESET Remote Administrator. If
disabled, original rules will not be deleted or modified by new rules.
Warning!
User-defined rules are identified by name. If the option
Discard previous settings on the target
computer
is not enabled and an existing user-defined rule is renamed, a duplicate rule is created after the
configuration is applied.
If you want to use an exported configuration but want to change Personal firewall settings only (and you do not
wish to modify parameters of the real-time protection, email protection, update, etc.), the Configuration Editor
offers the following methods:
1.
Use the keyboard shortcut CTRL + D to remove blue icons in other settings (the icons will revert to grey).
2.
Navigate to
ESET Smart Security, ESET NOD32 Antivirus > Personal firewall
and press SPACEBAR (the
icon of every setting in the Personal firewall section will change to blue).
3.
Save the configuration by clicking
File > Export selected to......
The difference between blue and grey icons is described in detail in the ESET Remote Administrator manual.
Essentially, any changes you make to settings in the ESET Configuration Editor are marked by a blue icon–the
resulting .xml file will contain only these settings. If you were to push out the .xml configuration created using the
steps above, only the Personal firewall settings would be modified on client computers
3
.
3 Remember that there are several methods of installing a new .xml configuration: as part of a configuration task
in ERA, as a configuration assigned to a remote install package, or by using the Import feature directly from the
ESET Smart Security user interface.
