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1. Introduction
ESET Remote Administrator (ERA) is an application which allows you to manage ESET’s products in a networked
environment, including workstations and servers – from one central location. With ESET Remote Administrator‘s built-
in task management system, you can install ESET security solutions on remote computers and quickly respond to new
problems and threats.
ESET Remote Administrator itself does not provide any other form of protection against malicious code. ERA depends
on the presence of an ESET security solution on workstations or servers, such as ESET NOD32 Antivirus or ESET Smart
Security.
To perform a complete deployment of an ESET security solutions portfolio, the following steps must be taken:
Installation of ERA Server (ERAS),
Installation of ERA Console (ERAC),
Installation on client computers (ESET NOD32 Antivirus, ESET Smart Security, Linux ESET Security client, etc…).
NOTE:
Some parts of this document use system variables which refer to an exact location of folders and files:
%ProgramFiles%
= typically
C:\Program Files
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%
= typically
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
1.1 What's new
ESET Remote Administrator Version 4.0
- support for ESET Smart Security/ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4.2
- support for ESET Mail Security 4 for Microsoft Exchange Server
- support for Linux/Mac desktop security solution (ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4)
- support for ESET Mobile Security
New features
- Remote Installation - new design
- Group Management - new design (Static groups, Parametric Groups, improved Active Directory synchronization)
- Filter - improved functionality (policy filters, static and parametric groups filters)
- Policies - new parameters in policy rules (support for parametric groups), import/export of policies and policy rules,
scheduler tasks merging, Policy Rules Wizard
- Notifications - support for parametric several minor improvements
- Centralized view on clients' quarantine (for v4 and higher ESS/EAV clients)
- Reports - support for static and parametric groups, new types of reports (mobile log, quarantine, firewall), new
templates
- Firewall rules merge wizard - wizard for merging rules created in learning mode
- Windows/Domain authentication of ERA Console user
- Windows Passive Cluster support
- Supports reinstallation of older ERA versions (3.x, 2.x, 1.x) including data migration support
- Communication encryption with AES-256
New ESET Configuration Editor
- support for new ESET Security products
- support for new ERA Server features
- zipped license files
- possibility to add predefined scheduled tasks
ESET Remote Administrator Version 3.0
- support for ESET Security products 4.x
- support for Linux solutions
New features
- Policy Management
- Notification Manager
- Read-Only Console access
- support for ESET SysInspector
