Windows 3.1 Machines - McAfee MANAGEMENT EDITION 2.5 Administrator's Manual

Creating Anti-virus Domains
If you are installing a large number of machines to the same anti-virus domain
from a shared location, often a directory on a server, you can pre-configure the
file so that the installation is completely automatic; no input will be required
on the target machine. This also applies when running the AUTOINST utility
to allow execution and installation (software upgrades only) from a NetWare
login script.
The installation process is normally completely silent. If an error occurs, a
message is displayed.
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Windows 3.1 machines

To provide Windows 3.1 machines with unique names, you must first install a
Management Agent on each machine. If you have a large number of machines,
you can do this with a login script.
When the Management Agent first runs, it determines that it is running on a
Windows 3.1 machine and that the machine doesn't have a computer name.
The Windows 3.1 machine requests a computer name from a Name Provider.
This is a Windows NT service, which resides on every Management Server.
(Each Management Server manages a single anti-virus domain.) You need to
provide the Management Agent with the name of the anti-virus domain so
that it can find the correct Name Provider. The Management Agent then sends
a request to that one. The Name Provider generates a name that has two parts:
1. The first part (the partial name) remains unchanged from machine to
machine.
2. The second part, a number, is incremented when the Name Provider
replies to each new request.
By default, the partial name is made from the first ten characters of the
anti-virus domain name, but you may change this before a name is assigned.
For examples, see the table on
assigned name for the lifetime of the Windows 3.1 machine, or until the
Management Edition software is removed. The Name Provider records the
assigned name in a database on its Management Server.
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The Management Console reads the databases and holds all the names in the
Name Provider in the network view. By double-clicking the icon, you can then
see all the named machines.
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IMPORTANT: The database is in W31NAMES.DAT. Do not manually
edit or alter this file.
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