Software Distribution; Push Installations - F-SECURE POLICY MANAGER 9.0 Administrator's Manual

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Software distribution

Policy Manager offers multiple methods of installing and updating managed applications.

Push installations

Policy-based installations
Local installations and
updates from CD-ROM
Local installation and
updates with
pre-configured packages about the settings used for the installation. The end user's computer can be set
F-Secure virus definition
database updates
Shortcuts to all the installation-related features are gathered under the
Push installations
This section describes how to push installation packages to hosts.
The only difference between the
features is how the target hosts are selected: autodiscover browses the Windows domains and user can
select the target hosts from a list of hosts, push install allows you to define the target hosts directly with IP
addresses or host names. After the target hosts are selected, both push installation operations proceed the
same way.
Note: Before you start to install F-Secure products on hosts, you should make sure there are no conflicting
antivirus or firewall programs installed on them.
Autodiscover Windows hosts
Target hosts can be selected with the Autodiscover feature.
To select target hosts:
1. Select the target domain.
2. Select
Alternatively, click the
Policy Manager can install software to new hosts that are not yet under
centralized management. Hosts can be browsed from Windows domains using
the Autodiscover Windows hosts
directly by WINS name or IP address using the
feature. In addition to first time installations, push installation features can be
used to update or repair installations whenever the policy-based installations
are not suitable.
Policy Manager can initiate installation and update operations with policy based
triggering. This requires that the hosts are already under centralized
management, i.e. included in a policy domain in Policy Manager Console.
Installation can be performed independently on the host by running the setup
directly from the CD-ROM. After installation, Management Agent sends a
registration message to Policy Manager. The administrator can then view and
accept the new host by choosing the
from the
Instead of using the standard CD-ROM setup, you can use Policy Manager to
prepare a customized installation package (JAR or MSI) that includes information
up silently, since the pre-configured package contains all of the settings that
are normally requested from the user.
Policy Manager can update the latest anti-virus databases by downloading them
automatically from the F-Secure Automatic Update site. Managed hosts will
fetch the updates from Policy Manager according to the host policy, either
automatically or with remotely triggered operations.
Autodiscover Windows hosts
Edit Autodiscover Windows hosts
button.
Edit menu in Policy Manager Console.
from the menu.
feature, or the target host can be specified
Push install to Windows host
Import autoregistered hosts
Installation tab.
and the Push install to Windows hosts
command