User Guide

Introducing the Management Edition Program
6 Management Edition
You can install the Management Edition program on the local hard disk drive
of the administrator’s workstation. You will need a Microsoft Windows NT
Domain Administrator account.
NOTE: You must install the Management Console and the Management
Server only on a Windows NT system. (The Management Console runs
only on Windows NT 4.0, and the Management Server runs on Windows
NT 3.51 or later.) Both applications, however, handle all tasks in the same
way across all Management Agent workstation platforms (Windows NT,
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 3.x, and Novell NetWare 3.12 or
later), which means less time spent learning new systems.
Most of the program’s functionality is built into these integrated services:
• Management Console. Use the Management Console to configure and
install anti-virus software on any machines in the anti-virus domain. For
details, see Chapter 3, “Creating Anti-virus Domains” and Chapter 5,
“Updating Your Anti-virus Software,” in your online Administrator’s
Guide.
• Management Server. Use the Management Server to coordinate the
scheduling of scans, receive alerts, and generate reports for the entire
anti-virus domain. For details, see Chapter 4, “Creating Schedules,” in
your online Administrator’s Guide.
• Management Agent. Use the Management Agent to initiate on-demand
scans via the Scheduler, and to send virus alerts from on-demand and
on-access scans back to the Management Server. For details, see Chapter
4, “Creating Schedules,” in your online Administrator’s Guide.
• Alert Manager. Use the Alert Manager to configure alert notification
settings. When the anti-virus software managed by the Management
Edition program detects malicious activity on your servers, you can be
notified immediately by one or more of a wide variety of notification
methods. For details, see Chapter 6, “Using the Alert Manager,” in your
online Administrator’s Guide.
These services work together to provide easy management of machines in
your anti-virus domain. Each service is configurable through a console. To
access the Alert Manager settings from the Management Console, click
Anti-Virus Domain(s)
, an individual domain, a members group, or an
individual machine, and then click the
Component Configuration
toolbar button.