Defining Anti-Virus Domains; Installing The Management Console - McAfee MANAGEMENT EDITION 2.5 Administrator's Manual

Installing the Management Edition Program
• For anti-virus domain member machines: Windows NT Server or
Workstation, v3.51 or later; Windows 95; Windows 98; Windows for
Workgroups 3.11; Windows 3.1; and Novell NetWare v3.12 or later
• For most machines: a Microsoft peer networking client (except Windows
3.1 or Windows 95 machines with a NetWare client and Name Provider
service, and NetWare servers that do not require a network client)

Defining anti-virus domains

An anti-virus domain is a collection of machines that are running Windows NT,
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, or
NetWare. It allows you to manage your anti-virus strategy, by grouping large
numbers of machines logically.
Any number of machines are allowed in an anti-virus domain. Before
installing the Management Console software, consider how you want to
divide your organization into management units, or anti-virus domains. You
can manage your whole network as one anti-virus domain, divide it into
several anti-virus domains, or follow the structure of the Microsoft network
domains you've already set up.
The Management Console allows you to create one or more anti-virus
domains, based on how you want to group machines on the network. You can
then install, update, and configure the anti-virus software for all anti-virus
domains, a single anti-virus domain, or a single machine.
Each anti-virus domain must contain a Management Server to provide central
communications, and this must be a Windows NT machine. All other
members of the anti-virus domain will have a Management Agent installed
automatically, with one or more anti-virus components.

Installing the Management Console

The Management Console is the program that controls the configuration and
installation of anti-virus software on machines in the anti-virus domain.
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The Management Console does not have to run on the Management Server,
and it does not have to run continuously. You use it to install and configure
anti-virus software for Windows NT Workstation, Windows 95, Windows 98,
Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Windows 3.1, and for NetWare. We
recommend that you run the Management Console from the network
administrator's machine.
26 Management Edition
IMPORTANT: The Management Console for version 2.5 of the
Management Edition program runs only on Windows NT 4.0.