What Comes With The Management Edition Program - McAfee MANAGEMENT EDITION 2.5 Administrator's Manual

What comes with the Management Edition
program?
The Management Edition program consists of several component sets that
combine one or more related programs, each of which play a part in defending
your computer against viruses and other malicious software. The component
sets are:
• Management Console. This component gives you exceptional control over
your anti-virus software distribution and scanning operations. You can
specify one of three methods for updating member machines. You can also
initiate a scan operation at any time (a feature known as "on-demand"
scanning), configure continuous on-access scanning to monitor network
traffic, choose how your anti-virus software will respond to any infections
it finds, and see reports on its actions.
• Management Components. This set consists of the Management Agent,
Scheduler, Response Manager (which runs in the background and is not
configurable), Update Agent, and Update Manager.
• Management Agent. This component helps you manage the member
machines. It is installed automatically on the Management Server and on
all the machines in the anti-virus domain when you apply a configuration.
The Management Agent receives an instruction from the Scheduler to start
an on-demand scan, and sends virus alerts from on-demand and on-access
scans back to the Management Server.
• Scheduler. This component lets you schedule an on-demand scan to occur
at a specific time. It then sends a command to all selected member machines
that are running, telling them to scan themselves using their on-demand
scanner. The Scheduler can schedule scans for a single machine, a group of
machines or all machines within the anti-virus domain. Do not confuse this
with the local Scheduler, which can only schedule scans for the individual
machine on which it is present. See
details.
• Update Agent. This component processes changes to the configuration of
installed components. The Management Console automatically produces a
script to control these changes, and to control component installation and
uninstallation. The Update Agent then processes this script. Unlike the
other components, which run in the background, the Update Agent is
launched by the Management Agent.
• Update Manager. This component runs on the Management Server and
provides one of three methods for updating member machines. It can retry
updates to machines that are powered off. You can configure the number of
retries and specify the maximum number of machines to simultaneously
update, using traffic limitation. This limits traffic to and from the
Management Server, preventing it from running out of connections or from
flooding it with file-copy requests when updating many machines.
Introducing the Management Edition Program
Chapter 4, "Creating Schedules,"
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