About Secondary Servers; About Parent Servers; About Server And Client Groups - Symantec 10551441 - AntiVirus Corporate Edition Administrator's Manual

38 Managing Symantec AntiVirus

About server and client groups

About secondary servers

About parent servers

About server and client groups
The primary server acts as the repository of all server options on a group level.
If you modify on a group level, the changes are recorded first in the registry of
the primary server for that group in the HKLM\Software\Intel\LANDesk\
VirusProtect6\CurrentVersion\DomainData key.
Then they are recorded in each of the other servers.
Servers that are not assigned primary server status are called secondary servers.
Secondary servers are children of primary servers. They retrieve information
from the primary server and share it with clients.
All servers in a server group are secondary servers until you assign one as the
primary server. You must designate the primary server before you can perform
most tasks at the server group level.
Note: Symantec product configuration changes cannot be managed at a level
higher than the server group.
A parent server is a computer running Symantec AntiVirus server with which a
connected computer running Symantec AntiVirus client communicates to
obtain configuration updates and to send alerts. Some servers may act as parent
servers; others may act as primary servers. These two functions are not
mutually exclusive. A primary server may also act as a parent server.
Server group members can share a single Symantec AntiVirus configuration, and
you can also run a Symantec AntiVirus operation on all members of a server
group. From the Symantec System Center console, you can create new server
groups and manage their membership. Server groups are independent of
Windows domains and other products. You can combine NetWare and Windows
computers into the same server groups, which allows simultaneous remote
configuration of these systems.
Client groups are logical groupings of computers running Symantec AntiVirus
client software. Although client groups are always attached to a server group,