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how to install central sophos via authenticated proxy?

dear, I need to install Sophos central endpoint with the settings of my authenticated proxy, I already tried to do it from the command line and it did not work, if anyone already managed to do this type of installation could give me an example of how it was done, Thank you!



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  • If you followed https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/127045 and provided the proxy address, username and password; do you see an error? What is in your install log?

  • Yes, I followed this with username and password and it did not work, the request does not reach squid.

    My install log: 

    2018-02-06T15:49:16.2692007Z INFO : Attempting to connect using proxy '' of type 'Empty Proxy'.
    2018-02-06T15:49:16.2692007Z INFO : Set security protocol: 00000800
    2018-02-06T15:49:16.2692007Z INFO : Opening connection to downloads.sophos.com
    2018-02-06T15:49:16.2722008Z INFO : Opened connection to downloads.sophos.com
    2018-02-06T15:49:16.2722008Z INFO : Request content size: 0
    2018-02-06T15:49:37.5694190Z ERROR : WinHttpSendRequest failed with error 12002
    2018-02-06T15:49:37.5694190Z INFO : Failed to connect using proxy '' with error: WinHttpSendRequest failed
    2018-02-06T15:49:37.5704190Z INFO : Cleaning up extracted files
    2018-02-06T15:50:16.0706211Z ERROR : Exception: Failed to download stage-2 archive. Status code: --: Failed to connect with any proxy

  • Hi the log appears to indicate that the proxy has not been specified correctly;

    2018-04-04T12:55:06.7462315Z INFO : Attempting to connect using proxy 'nameofproxyserver' of type 'Proxy'
    2018-04-04T12:55:06.7462315Z INFO : Set security protocol: 00000800
    2018-04-04T12:55:06.7462315Z INFO : Opening connection to downloads.sophos.com
    2018-04-04T12:55:06.7462315Z INFO : Opened connection to downloads.sophos.com

    Please can you indicate the switch you used (please change the actual names etc if needed)