Symantec Security 5600 Series, Security 5400 Series,Clientless VPN 4400 Series, Administration Manual

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80 Maintaining your security gateway
Configuring and running LiveUpdate
Three public Symantec LiveUpdate servers are defined by default:
If a LiveUpdate server is deployed in your network, you can identify it to the security gateway for use in
updating components. Benefits of configuring a local LiveUpdate server can include better
performance and the ability to control the version of LiveUpdate signatures and definitions that is
available.
Prerequisites
None.
To define a LiveUpdate server
1 In the SGMI, in the left pane, under System, click Configuration .
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In the right pane, on the LiveUpdate tab, under LiveUpdate Servers, click New .
3 In the LiveUpdate server properties dialog box, on the General tab, do the following:
4 If you chose FTP as the protocol, optionally, you can require authentication by doing the following:
5 Optionally, on the Description tab, type a more detailed description than you typed in the Caption
text box.
6 Click OK .
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Optionally, do one of the following:
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To save your configuration now and activate later, on the toolbar, click Save .
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To activate your configuration now, on the toolbar, click Activate .
When prompted to save your changes, click Yes .
Related information
For further information related to this topic, see the following:
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“LiveUpdate Server Properties—General tab” on page 754
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“LiveUpdating components” on page 81
Table 4-1
Default LiveUpdate servers
Server name Server URL
Symantec LiveUpdate http://liveupdate.symantecliveupdate.com
Symantec LiveUpdate 2 http://liveupdate.symantec.com
Symantec LiveUpdate FTP ftp://update.symantec.com/opt/content/onramp
Name Type a name to identify the LiveUpdate server.
Protocol From the drop-down list, select HTTP or FTP as the protocol to be used by the
LiveUpdate server.
Server URL Type the fully qualified domain name of the LiveUpdate server.
Port Type the port on which the LiveUpdate server listens.
User name Type the user name that is used to authenticate to the LiveUpdate server.
Password Type the password that is used to authenticate to the LiveUpdate server.