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Installing Sophos Update Manager in locations with Low Badnwidth

kmd

Hi

I have installed Sohpos Update manager on a good few of our sites and all is working okay.I was installing the update manager directly from the server where Enterprise Console is set up.Then it would download all the binaries, seems to copy over around 300mb or there abouts.

Just wondering If I needed to set up Sophos Update Manager on some of our locations, which have satellite links, is there any way around having all this data copied over the satellite link the first time.

I was thinking of copying the install files from main server to cd, and then copying Update folder from another Update Manger onto cd, then installing update manager.

In the hope then that when it updates the next time, it will already have bulk of data so would need a large copy the first time

Any thought, or has anyone done this before

Thanks

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    Follow up as promised

    The following procedure seems to work:

    • Copy the SUMInstaller (shared as SUMInstallSet) and the Update Manager\Warehouse folder (from the SophosUpdate share) to CD/DVD (or a USB stick). I assume that you put SUMInstaller directly under the root and Warehouse under Updates.
    • Get the medium to the remote machine (let's call it R-SUM) and install SUM. Also share the Updates folder (I assume as \\R-SUM\Updates).
    • After installation R-SUM will appear in SEC's Update Managers view. Use View/Edit configuration, tab Sources -> Add and enter \\R-SUM\Updates as Address (ignore the warning about the missing credentials), select the appropriate Subscription and save the configuration.
    • Use Update now to force the initial "download" a creation of the CID(s). If you want to act R-SUM also as message relay configure the CID accordingly. Create an updating policy which uses R-SUM, apply this policy to R-SUM and protect it. You should then see R-SUM as protected but out of date, the timestamp should be from around the time you copied the Warehouse. 
    • Next View/Edit configuration and configure the "live" update source (you can keep the local share from the CD but move it down the list). With the next update (scheduled or forced) R-SUM will fetch the delta which should be significantly less. To verify it worked check the Endpoint view where R-SUM should be (more or less) up to date then (after a short delay of course depending on the schedules).

    I did not simulate the latency and bandwidth of a satellite link but it should not matter. Well, if you try please tell us about it.

    Christian

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    Follow up as promised

    The following procedure seems to work:

    • Copy the SUMInstaller (shared as SUMInstallSet) and the Update Manager\Warehouse folder (from the SophosUpdate share) to CD/DVD (or a USB stick). I assume that you put SUMInstaller directly under the root and Warehouse under Updates.
    • Get the medium to the remote machine (let's call it R-SUM) and install SUM. Also share the Updates folder (I assume as \\R-SUM\Updates).
    • After installation R-SUM will appear in SEC's Update Managers view. Use View/Edit configuration, tab Sources -> Add and enter \\R-SUM\Updates as Address (ignore the warning about the missing credentials), select the appropriate Subscription and save the configuration.
    • Use Update now to force the initial "download" a creation of the CID(s). If you want to act R-SUM also as message relay configure the CID accordingly. Create an updating policy which uses R-SUM, apply this policy to R-SUM and protect it. You should then see R-SUM as protected but out of date, the timestamp should be from around the time you copied the Warehouse. 
    • Next View/Edit configuration and configure the "live" update source (you can keep the local share from the CD but move it down the list). With the next update (scheduled or forced) R-SUM will fetch the delta which should be significantly less. To verify it worked check the Endpoint view where R-SUM should be (more or less) up to date then (after a short delay of course depending on the schedules).

    I did not simulate the latency and bandwidth of a satellite link but it should not matter. Well, if you try please tell us about it.

    Christian

    :5631
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