upgrading to SUM

HI,

Section 6 in:

http://www.sophos.com/sophos/docs/eng/sesc_95_augeng.pdf

should help you.

If you aleady running SEC 4 you will have SUM installed at least on the Sophos mangement server it just may not be configured yet but if you switch to the SUM list in Enterprise Console you should see it and can start.

You don't mention if you have multiple EMLibrary installs to upgrade to SUM installs or if you just have the one on the management server but if you do have more than 1 EMlibrary, to upgrade, on the EMlibrary machine you can just run the setup.exe from the SUM installer share on the management server as mentioned in chapter 6.3 of the above PDF.  Once the machine reports back in as a SUM you will see it in the update managers list in SEC.

If you need to automate the install of many SUMS:

http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/61474.html

might be worth a look also.

Either way the prinical of SUM is the same as EMLibrary it's just more intergrated into SEC.  The communcaiton with SUM uses RMS and you don't need a separate mangament console.  You set up a source, e.g. Sophos, define what subscriptions you want (a subscription can be thought of as a collection of versions of the various AV products for the different platforms).

You then assign this subscription to the SUMs that need to maintain it.  The term CID or Central Installation Directory has been changed to Distribution Point but essentially they are the same collection of files.

In the new updating polcies you only have to specify the root of the share (should be pre-populated in the drop down), and then you chose the subscription (verison of the software) the share has to offer in the subscription tab of the policy, the new updating policy then essentially adds the share path to the subscription to form the full updating path.  That's about it.  

Regards,

Jak

HI,

Section 6 in:

http://www.sophos.com/sophos/docs/eng/sesc_95_augeng.pdf

should help you.

If you aleady running SEC 4 you will have SUM installed at least on the Sophos mangement server it just may not be configured yet but if you switch to the SUM list in Enterprise Console you should see it and can start.

You don't mention if you have multiple EMLibrary installs to upgrade to SUM installs or if you just have the one on the management server but if you do have more than 1 EMlibrary, to upgrade, on the EMlibrary machine you can just run the setup.exe from the SUM installer share on the management server as mentioned in chapter 6.3 of the above PDF.  Once the machine reports back in as a SUM you will see it in the update managers list in SEC.

If you need to automate the install of many SUMS:

http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/61474.html

might be worth a look also.

Either way the prinical of SUM is the same as EMLibrary it's just more intergrated into SEC.  The communcaiton with SUM uses RMS and you don't need a separate mangament console.  You set up a source, e.g. Sophos, define what subscriptions you want (a subscription can be thought of as a collection of versions of the various AV products for the different platforms).

You then assign this subscription to the SUMs that need to maintain it.  The term CID or Central Installation Directory has been changed to Distribution Point but essentially they are the same collection of files.

In the new updating polcies you only have to specify the root of the share (should be pre-populated in the drop down), and then you chose the subscription (verison of the software) the share has to offer in the subscription tab of the policy, the new updating policy then essentially adds the share path to the subscription to form the full updating path.  That's about it.  

Regards,

Jak