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Creating Anti-virus Domains
If the machine is in a different domain from your own, you can set up a trust
relationship between the two domains. For more details, see
"Windows NT
machines (trust relationships)" on page
68.
If the Management Console cannot gain access to a member machine, it
prompts the Domain Administrator for a user account and password that does
have sufficient rights.
Assigning a Management Server
A Management Server does the following tasks:
• Coordinates the scheduling of anti-virus scans, by sending commands to
member machines to perform scans at user-determined times.
• Receives (virus) alerts from member machines.
• Generates reports for the anti-virus domain.
• Runs the Management Agent, Update Manager, and Name Provider.
The Management Server must therefore be a Windows NT server that is
running continuously. Choose a server with spare capacity so that it is not
over-burdened. If you have fewer than ten machines within your anti-virus
domain, you can use a Windows NT workstation.
The Management Server, the Repository, and the Management Console are
three separate components. However, for simplicity, the Repository and the
Management Server normally reside on one machine and the Management
Console on another. Equally, they may all be installed on one machine, or all
on different machines.
Figure 3-11 on page 86
shows two anti-virus domains
controlled by a single Management Console and joined by a WAN link. To
reduce network traffic across the WAN link, domain B has a mirror repository.
For more details, see
"Reducing WAN traffic" on page
235.
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