Sophos Enterprise Console release notes --------------------------------------- Product version : 2.0, May 2006 www.sophos.com Contents -------- 1 About Sophos Enterprise Console 2 New features 3 Known issues 4 System requirements 5 Technical support 1 About Sophos Enterprise Console --------------------------------- Sophos Enterprise Console is a management console that can be used to install Sophos Anti-Virus and Sophos Client Firewall remotely, and to configure, monitor, manage and report on Sophos products running on Windows and Mac OS X computers. Enterprise Console works in conjunction with Sophos EM Library, which downloads software packages from Sophos and keeps them updated automatically. For information on installing Enterprise Console for the first time, see the "Sophos Anti-Virus and Sophos Client Firewall network startup guide". For information on upgrading, see the "Sophos Anti-Virus and Sophos Client Firewall network upgrade guide". Both guides are available from the Sophos Network Install CD or from the Sophos website. 2 New features -------------- Enterprise Console now allows you to: * Install the product features (e.g. the management server, the database) on different computers, if you want to. * Use an existing database to hold data about the computers you are managing. * Use Active Directory or IP address range to find networked computers and list them in the console. * Install and centrally manage new versions of Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows 2000/XP/2003 (now with detection of potentially unwanted applications), Windows NT, Windows 95/98/Me and Mac OS X. * Install and centrally manage Sophos Client Firewall. * Create named policies for updating, anti-virus protection, and firewall protection. You can apply a policy to more than one group and can modify the policy or switch to another policy easily. * Clean up computers (i.e. deal with viruses or unwanted applications) from the console. * Authorize applications to run on networked computers. * Generate scheduled reports summarizing threat detection and cleanup. This is available by using the task scheduler. 3 Known issues -------------- * Installation fails if Microsoft networking client is not present. Installation of the Enterprise Console "management server" will fail if there is no Microsoft networking client installed on the computer (although this client does not need to be active). * If you are using a firewall, you should enable port 8192 before you install Enterprise Console. If you are using a firewall on the computer where you want to install Enterprise Console, you should enable Corba port 8192, in addition to ports 8193 and 8194. Port 8192 is used to enable the computers on the network to find the Enterprise Console management server. Computers will report correctly to the management server if it is behind a firewall but they will take longer to do so. * Installing Sophos Anti-Virus 5.x.x on the server running the management software can prevent it from managing networked computers. If you install the Sophos management software on a server which has not been protected with Sophos Anti-Virus before, you should not protect it with Sophos Anti-Virus 5.x.x. Doing so prevents the management service from communicating with the computers it should be managing. You should protect the server with the latest version of Sophos Anti-Virus instead. * Excluding folders from on-access scanning may disable scanning on Windows 95/98/Me computers. When you set an anti-virus policy for a group of computers, you can exclude folders from on-access scanning. This option is not supported on Windows 95/98/Me computers and may have the effect of disabling on-access scanning on those computers. If you move the Windows 95/98/Me computers to a group that does not have this option included in its policy, on-access scanning should restart. * Enterprise Console shows a computer as "disconnected" after you upgrade a remote management console If you upgrade a "remote management console" from version 1.0 to version 2.0, the computer where you perform that upgrade is shown as "disconnected" in your main copy of Enterprise Console. Restart the computer or restart the Sophos Message Router and Sophos Agent services. 4 System requirements --------------------- Sophos Enterprise Console requires: * Windows 2000 Professional (SP3 or later), Windows 2000 Server (SP3 or later), or Windows Server 2003 (with or without SP1) * Internet Explorer 5 or later * At least 80 MB disk space for installation. You need further space for your database, as detailed below. * 256 MB RAM. The computer where you place the database component (which may be the same computer or a different one) also needs: * At least 300 MB disk space for data. If you use MSDE, the maximum size that a database can reach is 2 GB. If you use Microsoft SQL Server, there is no limit apart from that set by the administrator. If you want to be able to use Enterprise Console remotely, you can install a remote management console on the above platforms or on Windows XP Professional (SP1 or later). 5 Technical support ------------------- For technical support, visit www.sophos.com/support. If you contact technical support, provide as much information as possible, including Sophos software version number(s), operating system(s) and patch level(s), and the exact text of any error messages.