Sophos Enterprise Console
10 Install an additional remote management console
You might want to install another instance of the Sophos Enterprise Console management console on another computer, so that you can manage networked computers conveniently. If you do not want to, skip this section.
Important
You must install the same version of Sophos Enterprise Console as is running on your management server.
Note
The new console will need to access the server on which you installed the Sophos Enterprise
Console management server. If that server runs a runs a firewall, you might need to configure the firewall to ensure that access is possible. For instructions on how to add a firewall rule to allow
DCOM traffic from the remote console to the management server, see knowledge base article
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To install an additional management console:
If User Account Control (UAC) (on Windows Server 2008 or later and Windows Vista or later) is turned on, turn it off and restart the computer. You can turn UAC on again after you have installed the management console.
Log on as an administrator.
• If the computer is in a domain, use a domain account that has local administrator rights.
• If the computer is in a workgroup, use a local account that has local administrator rights.
1. Locate the Sophos Enterprise Console installer that you downloaded earlier and double-click it.
2. Extract the installation files to the suggested destination folder or another one of your choice. The folder must be on this computer.
An installation wizard guides you through installation. Accept the default options, except as shown below: a) On the Components Selection page, make sure that Management Console is selected and
Management Server and Database are not selected.
b) On the Management Server page, enter the name of the server on which you installed the
Sophos Enterprise ConsoleSophos Enterprise Console management server.
Note
If you changed the port during the management server installation, make sure that you specify the same port on this page.
c) If you are in a domain environment, enter the user account that is used to access the Sophos
Enterprise Console databases.
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The account is the one that you entered when you installed the Sophos Enterprise Console databases. It is the same as that used by the Sophos Management Host service on the server on which you installed the Sophos Enterprise Console management server.
When the wizard has finished, log off or restart the computer (the final page in the wizard shows which). When you log on again, Sophos Enterprise Console opens automatically. If the Download
Security Software Wizard runs, cancel it.
If you turned off User Account Control before installation, you can now turn it on again.
To enable other users to use the additional management console:
• Add them to the Sophos Console Administrators group and the Distributed COM Users group on the server on which you have installed the management server.
• Assign them to at least one Sophos Enterprise Console role and sub-estate.
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