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Mac OS - pre-configuring Autoupdate

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We have quite a number of Macs (not surprising at a university) but no official Mac support. Nevertheless we offer Sophos for Macs (in a downloadable .zip archive).  

When Sophos is installed on a Mac on our network it connects to the management server from where it gets the update policy (the CIDs contain the correct mrinit.conf for RMS to work). Of course this does not work if the Mac is used at home. For windows PCs putting sauconf.xml placed in the appropriate directory does the trick. There are some articles in the knowledgebase but usually a Mac is required with which you can configure the CID (if I understand correctly). I believe no magic is actually involved and the configuration is stored somewhere in a .plist file (XML format). I suspect that the catalogues are involved and configcid.exe does not support a CID for OSX.

Or is there a "simple" way to pre-configure autoupdate (even if it's unsupported)? sau.plist looks suspicous  :smileywink:

Christian

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    com.sophos.sau.plist

    is the file your looking for.

    I installed the Macintosh SUM updater and customized the depo for my local primary update site.

    The syntax is rather involved, so I'd recommend you install Mac SUM and create one yourself, it would be nice if it were documented though, this fragment will not be enough.  The SUM updater will also not let you modify the update sources until after the CID is first populated from Sophos, so you need the credentials for your account.

    Passwords also automatically get obfuscated as well, so its probably best to use Mac SUM when creating the .plist parameters list file. There after it can be copied if it doesn't change.

     <key>PrimaryServerType</key>
     <integer>1</integer>
     <key>PrimaryServerURL</key>
     <string>http://myupdate.server.edu/SophosUpdate/CIDs/S000/ESCOSX</string>
     <key>PrimaryServerUserName</key>

    It is in [ Sophos Anti-Virus.mpkg\Contents\Packages\SophosAU.mpkg\Contents\Resources\com.sophos.sau.plist ]

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    com.sophos.sau.plist

    is the file your looking for.

    I installed the Macintosh SUM updater and customized the depo for my local primary update site.

    The syntax is rather involved, so I'd recommend you install Mac SUM and create one yourself, it would be nice if it were documented though, this fragment will not be enough.  The SUM updater will also not let you modify the update sources until after the CID is first populated from Sophos, so you need the credentials for your account.

    Passwords also automatically get obfuscated as well, so its probably best to use Mac SUM when creating the .plist parameters list file. There after it can be copied if it doesn't change.

     <key>PrimaryServerType</key>
     <integer>1</integer>
     <key>PrimaryServerURL</key>
     <string>http://myupdate.server.edu/SophosUpdate/CIDs/S000/ESCOSX</string>
     <key>PrimaryServerUserName</key>

    It is in [ Sophos Anti-Virus.mpkg\Contents\Packages\SophosAU.mpkg\Contents\Resources\com.sophos.sau.plist ]

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