Configuring Automatic Updates; How Do Automatic Updates Work; Automatic Update Settings; Configuring Automatic Updates From Policy Manager Server - F-SECURE CLIENT SECURITY 9.00 Administrator's Manual

64 | F-Secure Client Security | Configuring virus and spyware protection

Configuring automatic updates

This section explains the different configuration settings available for automatic updates in Policy Manager,
and gives some practical configuration examples for hosts with different protection needs.
By following these instructions you can always keep the virus and spyware definitions on hosts up-to-date,
and choose the best update source based on user needs.

How do automatic updates work?

The Automatic Update Agent installed with Client Security downloads the automatic updates from the configured
update sources.
The Automatic Update Agent tries to download updates in the following order:
1. If Policy Manager Proxy is in use in the company network, the client tries to connect to Policy Manager
Server through each Policy Manager Proxy in turn.
2. If the client is configured to use HTTP proxy, it tries to download the updates through the HTTP proxy
from Policy Manager Server.
3. Next the client tries to download the updates directly from Policy Manager Server.
4. If Policy Manager Proxy is in use in the company network, the client tries to connect to the F-Secure update
server through each Policy Manager Proxy in turn.
5. If the client is configured to use HTTP proxy, it tries to download the updates through the HTTP proxy
from F-Secure update server.
6. After that the client tries to download the updates directly from F-Secure update server.
Note: If Client Security is set to download neighborcast updates it may also download updates from
other Client Security installations that have neighborcast enabled.

Automatic update settings

On the Automatic updates
automatically receive virus and spyware definition updates.
To allow automatic updates, select
Specify the update polling interval in the
field.
Policy Manager Proxies
Agent installed with Client Security connects to them in the priority order specified in this table.
If you want to use HTTP proxy, select
drop-down menu. Then specify the

Configuring automatic updates from Policy Manager Server

When centralized management is used, all hosts can fetch their virus and spyware definition updates from
Policy Manager Server.
This is configured as follows:
1. Select
2. Go to the
3. Make sure that
4. Make sure that the polling interval defined in
is suitable for your environment.
page on the
Enable automatic
is a list of Policy Manager Proxy servers available to you. The Automatic Update
HTTP proxy
Root on the Policy domains
Settings tab and select the
Enable automatic updates
Settings tab, you can specify whether you want Client Security to
updates. You should always enable automatic updates.
Interval for polling updates from F-Secure Policy Manager Server
From browser settings or
address.
tab.
Automatic updates page.
is selected.
Interval for polling updates from F-Secure Policy Manager
User-defined from the Use HTTP proxy