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Sophos Update Manager (SUM) on Linux

Vizz

Hello,

Currently my corp has installed SUM on Win2003 Server machine. We need to remove all Win2003 os due to eol support. I don't want to buy new Windows Server 2008/2012 license only for distributing Sophos updates. Is there any way to install it on Linux machine for example? If there is no Linux version maybe run it under wine on Linux?

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    Hello Vizz,

    do you have only Linux endpoints or Windows as well? If the former then the Linux documentation describes how to implement a local CID. Please note that the management server (which requires a Windows OS) is much more than just a SUM.

    Christian

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    Hello Christian,

    We have only Windows endpoints. I'm not a Sophos administrator in my corp, I'm just an admin of the remote site of the corp. In the main office they have a console with ability to view which endpoint is upgrading or not. On my site I just have SUM installed. Is it needed to have Windows OS instead of Linux on my site to distribute updates and report to the main office the upgrading status?

    Vizz

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    Hello Vizz,

    I see. Now, a SUM has some advantages (and only SUM on Windows can deploy the share as needed by the Windows endpoints) but you could mirror the CID from the main site on a Linux box (another option is that the main SUM writes to a SAMBA share at the remote site but that's not how you'd normally do it).

    Is the 2003 server also a message relay?

    Christian

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    Hello Christian,

    Now I understand, thank you. What if I need to relay messages with updating status to the external network - then I need SUM?

    Marcin

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    Hello marcin,

    the ability to relay messages is a feature of the RMS component of the Windows Endpoint product. Any Windows endpoint can act as relay (of course within the limitations of a non-server OS), no SUM is needed.

    Christian

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