F-SECURE ANTI-VIRUS FOR MICROSOFT EXCHANGE 9.00, Administrator'S Manual

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Creating hosts manually
This topic describes how to create hosts manually.
To create a host manually:
1. Select the target domain.
2. Select Edit
➤
New host from the menu.
Alternatively:
•
Click in the toolbar.
• Press Insert.
This operation is useful in the following cases:
• Learning and testing – you can try out a subset of Policy Manager Console features without actually
installing any software in addition to Policy Manager Console.
• Defining policy in advance – you can define and generate a policy for a host before the software is
installed on the host.
• Special cases – you can generate policies for hosts that will never access the server directly (that is,
when it is not possible to import the host). For example, it is possible to generate base policy files for
a computer that does not access the F-Secure Policy Manager Server. The base policy file must be
transferred either manually or by using another external transport mechanism. To do this, select
Edit
➤
Export policy file from the menu.
Note: Hosts without Management Agent installed cannot be administered through Policy Manager
Console because they have no means of fetching policies. Also, no status information will be available.
Any changes made to the domain structure are implemented even though you exit Policy Manager
Console without saving changes to the current policy data.
Push installations
This section describes how to push installation packages to hosts.
The only difference between the Autodiscover Windows hosts and the Push install to Windows hosts
features is how the target hosts are selected: autodiscover browses the Windows domains and user can
select the target hosts from a list of hosts, push install allows you to define the target hosts directly with IP
addresses or host names. After the target hosts are selected, both push installation operations proceed the
same way.
Note: Before you start to install F-Secure products on hosts, you should make sure there are no conflicting
antivirus or firewall programs installed on them.
Autodiscover Windows hosts
Target hosts can be selected with the Autodiscover feature.
To select target hosts:
1. Select the target domain.
2. Select Edit
➤
Autodiscover Windows hosts from the menu.
Alternatively, click the button.
3. From the NT domains list, select one of the domains and click Refresh .
The host list is updated only when you click Refresh . Otherwise cached information is displayed for
performance reasons. Before clicking Refresh , you can change the following options:
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