User Guide
Table Of Contents
- 1 About this Manual
- 2 Product Information
- 3 Installation
- 4 Avira SMC Frontend
- 5 Configuration
- 5.1 Overview
- 5.2 Configuring Network and SMC Server Connections
- 5.3 Setting the Security Environment
- 5.4 Adding update servers in Avira IUM
- 5.5 Installing SMC Agents in the Security Environment
- 5.5.1 Installing SMC Agent through SMC Frontend (Windows 2000/ XP Professional/ Vista/ UNIX)
- 5.5.2 Installing SMC Agent manually (Win XP Home Edition, optional: Windows 2000/ XP Professional/ Vista)
- 5.5.3 Silent Agent Setup on Windows
- 5.5.4 Installing SMC Agent Manually on UNIX Systems
- 5.5.5 Uninstalling SMC Agent
- 5.6 Configuring Avira SMC
- 5.7 SSL Certificates Management
- 5.8 Updating Avira SMC
- 5.9 User Management
- 6 Operation
- 6.1 Overview
- 6.2 Managing the software packages
- 6.3 Creating Filtered Computer Groups
- 6.4 Displaying Information about a Computer or Group
- 6.5 Viewing Events
- 6.6 Performing Commands and Planning Tasks
- 6.7 Creating and Listing Reports
- 6.8 Deploying Files/ Licenses/ Programs in the Security Environment
- 6.9 Handling Errors
- 7 Updating Avira Products
- 8 Troubleshooting
- 9 Products Supported by Avira SMC
- 10 Service
Operation
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Deleting a Software Package
We recommend that you do not delete the existing software packages because you may
accidentally delete related files from the hard disk of the server and you cannot manage
the products in Security Environment anymore.
Expand the Software Repository node.
The stored software packages are displayed.
Right-click the software package and select Delete.
The software will be deleted from the Avira SMC database.
6.2.2 Installing and Uninstalling an Avira Product
Please read the file RE ADME.TXT in the main directory of Avira SMC.
The installation and uninstallation of Avira products on computers in Security
Environment using Avira SMC runs protected, meaning it cannot be interrupted or
cancelled.
The installation and uninstallation of products will be executed if the concerning
computers in the Security Environment are online and SMC Agents are on.
In the case of offline computers or Agents set with pull mechanism, the actions and
commands (for example installing a product) are saved and automatically triggered
by the program immediately after the computers/groups go online, or the Agent
performs the synchronization. The computers will have the status for pending
operations
: red marker on the left side and/or orange arrow.
The installation also implies the configuration of Avira products. The configuration of
installed Avira products requires knowledge of configuration parameters.
Please read and follow the configuration instructions from the Avira product’s User
Manuals before performing remote installation/configuration with Avira SMC.
Installing a product
Using Avira SMC you can simultaneously install Avira products on multiple
computers, which have the same operating system family (workstation, server,
Unix, ...). Therefore, the Security Environment virtual groups must be structured
according to configuration requirements (see Setting the Security Environment –
Page 26).
If the SMC Agent is not available on a computer on which you want to install a product,
the SMC Agent will be automatically installed first.
During installation, a product-specific Install window appears, where parameters
can be set (see Product-specific Configuration Panels – Page 103).