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1. Introduction
ESET Remote Administrator is an application which allows you to manage ESET‘s products in a networked
environment. ESET Remote Administrator (ERA) is a solution which allows you to administer ESET products,
including workstations and servers – from one central location. Thanks to ESET Remote Administrator‘s built-in
task management system, you can quickly respond to new problems threats, and - last but not least – install ESET
solutions on remote computers.
ESET Remote Administrator itself does not provide any other form of protection against malicious code, such as
viruses and worms. ERA depends on the presence of an ESET solution on workstations or servers, such as ESET NOD32
Antivirus or ESET Smart Security.
To perform a complete deployment of ESET security solutions portfolio, the following steps must be taken:
• Installation
of ERA Server (ERAS),
• Installation of ERA Console (ERAC),
• Installation of Mirror server,
• Installation of client computers (ESET NOD32 Antivirus, ESET Smart Security, ESET Server Edition, etc...).
NOTE:
Some parts of this document will 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
Figure 1
Simplified model of deployment: ESET for Windows clients, ESET Remote Administrator. ERAS and MIRROR
SERVER can, but do not have to be installed on the same system.
