Enterprise Manager - Centrally managing your company's anti-virus, including automatically keeping your entire enterprise up to date

Product Overview

How Does it Work?

Features and Benefits

Enterprise Manager

SAVAdmin

EM Reporter

Remote Update

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Centrally managing your company's anti-virus, including automatically keeping your entire enterprise up to date.

Product Overview

The Enterprise Manager suite is a powerful set of tools allowing fully automated web-based installation and updating of Sophos software across a network and even to remote users.

Network administrators are put in full control and can monitor their network at all times. Unprotected computers or those running an out-of-date version of Sophos Anti-Virus can be immediately and automatically updated. In practice, a network of 1000 or more clients can be updated from a single, central Windows machine within five minutes.

Further administrator support is provided by EM Reporter which clearly identifies vulnerable network points. It produces a range of instant, tailored reports on viruses detected on Windows desktops and servers across an organization.

EM Reporter processes and stores virus alerts generated by Sophos Anti-Virus, then collates them to produce customized graphical and tabular reports that can be exported to several formats. These reports not only make the day-to-day management of Sophos Anti-Virus even simpler, but also extend the benefits of your organization's investment in Sophos Anti-Virus.

The Enterprise Manager suite also includes Sophos's administration tool, SAVAdmin.

SAVAdmin enables system administrators to:

Install, configure and monitor Sophos Anti-Virus remotely.
Set up immediate or scheduled tasks and reporting.
Detect new workstations on the network and install Sophos Anti-Virus on them automatically.
Copy central installations of Sophos Anti-Virus to other servers or sites for use in installing and updating the software across a network.
Monitor Sophos Anti-Virus and access other computer details in real time.

Sophos even provides an easy way for remote workers (such as laptop users or employees based at their homes) to be kept up-to-date with their virus protection. Remote Update keeps Sophos Anti-Virus up to date on an end-user's computer via a website or network connection provided by their employer. It is ideally suited to employees of organizations who are infrequently, or never, connected to the main company network, but who do connect to the internet from time to time.

How does it work?

Enterprise Manager comprises five components:

Sophos Databank: a website containing the latest versions of Sophos Anti-Virus and virus identity files. It ensures reliable updates by restricting use exclusively to Enterprise Manager users.

EM Library: collects updates from the databank at pre-set times and on-demand. It pushes them out to central installation directories (CIDs) from where desktops and servers can automatically update themselves.

EM Reporter: processes and reports on viruses detected on desktops and servers. It provides four different and highly configurable summary report types which allow management or operational reports to be created quickly and easily.

EM Console: used to configure and manage EM Library and EM Reporter.

SAVAdmin: used to deploy software to all Windows desktops automatically. The software allows real-time monitoring, reporting and control.

Features and Benefits:

Offers fast and controllable, automatic and manual distribution of Sophos software enterprise-wide.

Ensures complete protection to remote users and laptops when Remote Update is installed on them.
Reduces bandwidth usage by minimizing file transfers, sending only new or updated files.
Supports unattended installation of Sophos Anti-Virus across the network.
Discovers new computers and installs Sophos Anti-Virus on them automatically.
Distributes specified Sophos software to servers and desktops on any supported platform in the network.
Supports hierarchical redistribution of software within the organization over internet, Intranet or WAN.
Manages large networks by dividing computers into user-defined groups.
Allows snapshots of networked computers to be stored and recalled.
Provides a networked "audit" facility for Sophos Anti-Virus with real-time monitoring of all its parameters.
Allows displayed information to be sorted and filtered.
Provides graphical and tabular reports on the number of viruses discovered by name, location, time or by individual alerts.
Allows reports to be filtered and sorted to highlight viruses, computers or SAVAdmin groups of most concern.
Provides reports suitable for regular management reporting or daily network administration.


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