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Installers

You can download Sophos installers and use them to protect your devices.

Go to Devices > Installers.

The installers you can see may depend on the license or licenses you have.

Before you start, check which operating systems you can protect with Sophos Central. See Sophos Central.

For more details, including what each product does, how you use the installers, and how Sophos Central registers devices and applies policies, read the other topics in this section.

For help with setting up your firewall or proxy to communicate between Sophos Central Admin and your managed devices, see Domains and ports to allow.

How to use installers

On the Installers page, click How do I use the installers for endpoints and servers?.

After downloading installers for workstations or servers, you can:

  • Run the installer to protect the local computer.
  • Transfer the installer to other computers and run it on them.
  • Use automated software deployment tools such as System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) to run the installer on large numbers of computers.

Note

You must keep the installer private. Make sure that you delete any copies after the installation is complete. If an external party has access to your installer, they won't be able to access your account, but they will be able to register new devices. If necessary, Sophos Support can invalidate all old installers and create a new one.

Expire previously downloaded installers

Warning

You can't undo this action.

This option prevents using any previously downloaded installers to register new devices to your account.

To do this, click Expire Previously Downloaded Installers, and then click Expire.

How to find out which data center stores your account

To find out which data center stores your Sophos Central account data, do as follows:

  1. Go to Devices > Installers.

  2. Under Endpoint Protection or Server Protection, hover over any of the installer download links.

    The data center address is shown in the lower-left corner of the browser:

    Corner of browser showing address of Windows installer.

  3. The address shows the geographical location of the data center:

    Address Location
    https://dzr-api-amzn-us-west-2-fa88.api-upe.p.hmr.sophos.com Oregon, USA
    https://api-cloudstation-us-east-2.prod.hydra.sophos.com Northern Virginia, USA
    https://api.stn100yul.ctr.sophos.com/ Montreal, Canada
    https://dzr-api-amzn-eu-west-1-9af7.api-upe.p.hmr.sophos.com Dublin, Ireland
    https://api-cloudstation-eu-central-1-prod.hydra.sophos.com Frankfurt, Germany
    https://api.stn100hnd.ctr.sophos.com/ Tokyo, Japan
    https://api.stn100syd.ctr.sophos.com/ Sydney, Australia
    https://api.stn100gru.ctr.sophos.com/ Sao Paulo, Brazil
    https://api.stn100bom.ctr.sophos.com/ Mumbai, India