Small Office Administration Console

Small Office Administration Console

For Endpoint Protection (Plus) and
Endpoint Protection Suite (Plus)

Administrator’s Guide

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This guide has been written to assist system administrators or anyone who uses the avast! Small Office
Administration Console to manage their network. The information contained in this guide is divided
into the following key areas:
1.General Information ............................................................................................................................. 4

2.

System Requirements .......................................................................................................................... 5
Small Office AdministrationConsole:.................................................................................................. 5
Centrally managed “client” products: .................................................................................................. 6

3.

Installation ............................................................................................................................................ 9

4.

AdministrationConsole Setup ........................................................................................................... 22
Systems overview ............................................................................................................................... 27
Virus definitionstatus......................................................................................................................... 27
Statistics ............................................................................................................................................. 28
System messages ............................................................................................................................... 28

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Network Screen.................................................................................................................................. 29
Group view .......................................................................................................................................... 29
Grid view............................................................................................................................................. 31
Filtering ............................................................................................................................................... 31
Create (Add) a New Computer ........................................................................................................... 34
Creating a New Group........................................................................................................................ 35

6.

Jobs ..................................................................................................................................................... 46
Create a new job................................................................................................................................. 46
Deployment Jobs (3 types) ............................................................................................................. 48
Maintenance Jobs (4 types) ............................................................................................................ 51
Scanning Jobs................................................................................................................................. 56
Running a Job ..................................................................................................................................... 63
Jobs History ........................................................................................................................................ 64
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