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Sophos deployment to unix from windows

johnnymac

I have a unix server conected to a windows 2008 R2 domain can i use  the Sophos Enterprise console to deploy the unix sophos agent to the unix server.

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    Hello johnnymac,

    deployment from the console works only for Windows endpoints (just try, SEC will tell you it can't on this OS).

    Christian
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    Thank you so is there no workaround for a single unix box to be managed from windows even if the agent is deployed manually on the unix box.

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    Hello johnnymac,

    once Sophos is installed from the CID (not with the standalone installer downloaded from Sophos) the client will connect to the management server and can then be managed (setting policies, requesting scans and so on).

    Christian

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    Thank you

    Finally got it to work after NFs for windows on the 2k8 server was installed to allow a unix box to talk to windows files

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    Hi,

    For anyone else struggling with this...

    To install the product you must access the CID from the Unix endpoint, and run the install.sh script.  For example, you could access the CID by mounting it using samba, or using NFS as johnny did.   You could also simply copy the whole CID to the Unix endpoint and then run install.sh.

    During the install script you will be prompted to setup updating.  You just need to enter the CID location as a UNC path or HTTP path.  Samba is included in the product - so there is no need to keep the CID mounted to update from the share.

    After installing on the first Unix machine, you might want to create an installation package.  You can create a pre-configured tar.gz installer which you can more easily copy to other systems.  Just run this tool:

    /opt/sophos-av/update/mkinstpkg

    If you need any more details, the startup guide might help:

    http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/documentation/sophos-anti-virus-for-unix.aspx#

    Hope this helps,
    Tom.

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