Endpoint Protection

Hi all,

Good day to you all.

Would like to enquire here. I am going to set up a server for Endpoint Protection Manager to manage my clients in an organisation. The main concern here is that I have 600 users in the office.

Can you kindly recommend the server specification requirements for managing 600 users? And also, since it is 600 users, I will also need a separate database server? Will Symantec own database be able to handle 600 users connecting to the server?

Kindly revert as soon as possible as it is urgent.

You just need a win 2003/win 2008 server, with Min 2 GB RAM.

Yes, symantec embedded datbase should be  fine, for 600 clients

Please  check this:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH92098

You can have up to 5000 clients with the Embedded DB.

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/embedded-database-1000-users-or-5000-users

Select Embedded thats more than enough..

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security.nsf/383ed085ad1ed2c6882571500069b34d/18873ad6514d93b2882576cc0065df54/$FILE/SEP%20Sizing%20and%20Scalability%20Best%20Practices_%20v2.1_Final.pdf

Hi all,

Thanks for the prompt advise. Really appreciate it.

Another problem I do encounter is that, first time deployment, the server load is quite heavy. Is that due to clients performing first-time AV updates?

Is there any best practice on deployment which will not congest the network or make the server sluggish because I did encounter an issue of unable to load back the database once connected to the server after deploying around 50 clients.

This has become my main concern for deploying 600 clients. Kindly advise again.

Yes, it is because the clients update  definitions. However, in SEP 12.1, I think there is an option while creating  the  client install  package itself that, the package would be deployed with updated  defs itself. You can use that, while creating client  install  package, and deploy this  package.

Also, if you face bandwidth issues like this, you can choose to deploy a set of , say, 20 to 25 clients at a time....