User manual ESET REMOTE ADMINISTRATOR 4

[. . . ] ESET Remote Administrator 4 Installation Manual and User Guide ESET Remote Administrator 4 Copyright © 2010 by ESET, spol. s r. o. ESET Remote Administrator 4 was developed by ESET, spol. For more information visit www. eset. com. No part of this documentation may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise without permission in writing from the author. [. . . ] The Domain Controller only needs to be accessible from the computer where your ERAS is located. To configure authentication to your Domain Controller, go to Tools > Server Options > Advanced > Edit Advanced Settings > ESET Remote Administrator > ERA Server > Setup > Active directory. The format of the server name is LDAP://servername or GC://servername. When empty, global catalog (GC) is used. 5. 3 Policies Policies are in many ways similar to Configuration tasks, except they are not one-shot tasks sent to one or more workstations. Rather, they provide continuous maintenance of certain configuration settings for ESET security products. In other words, a Policy is a configuration that is forced to a client. 5. 3. 1 Basic principles and operation Access the Policy Manager by selecting Tools > Policy Manager. . . The Policy Tree on the left lists the policies that are present on individual servers. The right side is divided into four sections ­ Policy settings, Policy configuration, Policy action and Global policy settings ­ the options in these sections enable an administrator to manage and configure policies. The primary functions of the Policy Manager include creating, editing and removing policies. ERAS can use multiple policies which can inherit settings from each other or from policies from an upper server. The system of adopting policies from an upper server is called inheritance; policies that are created as a result of inheritance are referred to as merged policies. Inheritance is based on the Parent ­ Child principle, i. e. a child policy inherits settings from a parent policy. 5. 3. 2 How to create policies The default installation only implements one policy labeled "Server Policy". This name can be changed in the Policy settings > Policy name field. The policy itself is configurable from the ESET Configuration Editor ­ click Edit and define parameters for the selected ESET security product (or client). All parameters are organized into a comprehensive structure and all items in the Editor are assigned an icon. Clients will only adopt active parameters (marked by a blue icon). All inactive (greyed out) parameters will remain unchanged on target computers. The same principle applies to inherited and merged policies ­ a child policy will adopt only active parameters from a parent policy. ERA Servers allow for multiple policies (Add New Child Policy). [. . . ] There are two ways to introduce the driver into ESET SysRescue compilation manually (the Add button) and automatically (the Aut. In the case of manual introduction, you need to select the path to the corresponding . inf file (applicable *. sys file must also be present in this folder). In the case of automatic introduction, the driver is found automatically in the operating system of the given computer. We recommend using automatic introduction only if ESET SysRescue is used on a computer that has the same network adapter as the computer on which the ESET SysRescue CD was created. [. . . ]