Re: Anti-virus and Update management tools

From: D (replytogroup_at_notme.noway)
Date: 04/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:55:57 -0400



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Drew McBee
Network Administrator
"Philip Washington" <phwashington@attbi.com> wrote in message
news:1ba9483.0404221711.41086fbf@posting.google.com...
> We are looking to transfer our PDC and BDC over to Samba, but we are
> running into an issue with network management software for anti-virus
> and updates.  So far everyone I've found requires installation on a
> Windows Server.  I would even be happy if I could figure out a
> configuration where a windows workstation is used for management.  Any
> ideas or possible solutions?  Does anybody have this on there roadmap?
We've been using Sophos ( www.sophos.com ) for a couple of years now, and
I'm really pleased with it.  The price was reasonable - especially when you
compare it to Norton or McAffee ( about 1/2 to 2/3 the cost ). I think it
can do what you want it to.  We use it on a RH 7.3 mailserver and an NT PDC.
I think you could have your CIDS ( the directory nodes update from ) located
on the Linux PDC, while having your mgmnt console on a pc somewhere. When we
bought our contract, we get the whole package, including just about every
platform. That is not to say that they have a GUI for every platform, but
theres probably a solution for you. We also got a nice little remote update
package as well, for our roaming users....
-D

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