When Should You Use F-Secure Policy Manager Proxy - F-SECURE POLICY MANAGER PROXY 2.0 Administrator's Manual

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8 | F-Secure Policy Manager Proxy | Introduction

When should you use F-Secure Policy Manager Proxy?

You do not have to use F-Secure Policy Manager Proxy to update the virus definitions database, but it does

provide certain advantages.

The effects of F-Secure Policy Manager Proxy are most obvious in large, vastly spread networks; for example,

a large corporation with remote offices in different parts of the globe. The following figure is an example of a

situation where F-Secure Policy Manager Proxy is useful:

There are three reasons to use F-Secure Policy Manager Proxy:

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To decrease the use of network bandwidth.

You should use F-Secure Policy Manager Proxy when you have a group of workstations far away from

your Policy Manager Server.

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To decrease the delivery time for virus definition updates.

You should use F-Secure Policy Manager Proxy when you have a group of workstations separated from

your Policy Manager Server by a slow connection, for example a dialup connection.

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To decrease the hardware load on Policy Manager.

You should use F-Secure Policy Manager Proxy if the server hardware running Policy Manager is unable

to cope with the number of requests it receives for virus definition updates.

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