Endpoint Protection

Hello All,

I am seeking help in accomplishing my goals of centralizing our symantec antivirus management setup and setting up reporting.

Currently i have a Windows 2003 Server With Symantec System Center V.6.0 installed

This is the primary server and all other clients are within this parent.

All Clients currently have V9.0 Symantec Antivirus installed and they are Windows 2000,2003 and XP machines

We have vista clients using v10.2 which are NOT seen by my SSC server so therefore have the antivirus client installed as standalone.

I would like my Vista clients to appear in Symantec System Center along with the other clients so i can manage them easily.

Also,  i would like to install reporting on this Server so i can receive email alerts of any erroneus activity etc

Please point me in the right direction

Your help is much appreciated

Barrie

Why not upgrading all your clients to SEP 11 when you're at it?

SAV 9 en 10 clients upgrade automatically (you don't need to uninstall it...), check the SEP installation guide, Section 3.

But, if you do want to stick with SAV, then the key points to note are the following:

SAV10 uses TCP communications, any previous version uses UDP, thats why your SAV10 clients don't appear in the SSC.

In order to manage your SAV10 clients you would need to upgrade your SAV9 primary to SAV10.  SAV10 servers can talk both UDP and TCP, so can support SAV9 clients.  This feature is enabled automatically if you upgrade from SAV9.

Once you have a SAV10 primary up and running, its simply a matter of installing the reporting server locally or on another server and then using the SAV10 SSC to point the reporting agents to the reporting server.

hth

Morning dries_vb and Paul Murgatroyd, many thanks for your emails,

Currently we do not have SEP v.11 i dont think even though our licence covers us to use it. I will have to check this out. Not sure how to obtain the lastest version if this is the case.

Paul and Dries_VB, as per your conversations, are you stating that if i install V.10 on top of my V.9 on my primary AV server it will upgrade itself automatically and i can then link my V10 clients to SSC?

I was thinking of then leaving my clients currently at V9 until i am happy then plan to roll out V11 once i get symantec running how i want

Cheers
Barrie

Thats correct, you can upgrade your 9.0 server to 10.0 and it will continue to manage your 9.0 clients too.  Once you have a SAV10 server running you can join your SAV10 clients to it as you would your SAV9 ones, by copying GRC.DAT across.

If you have active maintenance on your SAV licenses then you are entitled to upgrade to SEP at no cost.

I would suggerst u to upgrade ur product to SAV10.2 wich is Vista and MS 2008 server compitable and u can use the makedrope utility to manage ur clients communicate with Primary Server.

Ajit

Thanks for all your replies

Lastly, i have now got my Antivirus Server to Version 10.1 and can see my clients as i added them using the remote client install (ive never copied grcdat across before)

I have also got reporting installed and up and running although i may add the other servers not managed by the current parent server. viewable on the report by adding the reporting agent. (i believe this is all i have to do)

However i am not able to see my Winvista Clients (32bit) which have 10.2. I have tried adding these via the client remote install pointing the install directory to VPHOME\CLT-INST\WIN32VISTA but it doesnt seem to update the client with the new information even after a restart. Is there something i am doing wrong? If i have to copy the grcdat across, where do i copy from/to? (sorry for sounding daft haha)

This very much for your help, much appreciated

Barrie