About The Client Protection Status Icons - Symantec 20032623 - Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition Implementation Manual

108 Managing clients

About the client protection status icons

Task
Check that client computers
have the right level of
protection
Adjust the protection on
client computers
Move endpoints from one
group to another to modify
protection (optional)
Let users control computer
protection (optional)
Remove the client software
from computers (optional)
About the client protection status icons
Tasks to manage client computers (continued)
Table 9-1
Description
You can check whether the client software is installed and whether the clients provide
the right level of protection.
You can view the status of each protection technology on your client computers.
See Viewing the protection status of clients and client computers"
See About the client protection status icons"
You can run reports or view logs to see whether you need to increase protection
or improve performance. For example, the scans may cause false positives. You
can also identify the client computers that need protection.
See Monitoring endpoint protection"
You can modify protection based on specific attributes of the client software or
the client computers.
You can increase or decrease each type of protection based on the results in the
reports and logs.
See The types of security policies"
See About the types of threat protection that Symantec Endpoint Protection Small
Business Edition provides"
You can temporarily disable protection on the client computers if you need to
diagnose a problem or improve performance.
See About enabling and disabling protection"
See Running commands on the client computer from the console"
To change a client computer's level of protection, you can move it to a group that
provides more protection or less protection.
See Moving a client computer to another group"
You can specify the kind of control that users have over the protection on client
computers.
For Virus and Spyware Protection and Proactive Threat Protection, you can lock
or unlock a check box to specify whether users can change individual settings.
See Locking and unlocking policy settings"
If users need full control of the client, you can install an unmanaged client.
See Converting an unmanaged client to a managed client"
See Uninstalling the client"
You can check whether the client and the server communicate.
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