Installation locations and methods

The location of the management database, management server and management consoles can be customized to suit your needs. For instance you could install:

• All components on the same server – this is referred to as a "standard" or "default" installation throughout our documentation.
  Note This is the recommended, most secure deployment.
• Each component on a separate server.
• Only the databases on a separate server, possibly on a dedicated SQL cluster.
• Sophos Enterprise Console on your local computer and the other components on a separate server.
• The whole product on VMWare to be managed from within a virtual machine.
• All components on a server in a server room and you use Remote Desktop sessions to use Sophos Enterprise Console from your local computer.

We don’t describe each of these installation configurations in this document, but we do explain generally how to install the management software and the software on your endpoint computers in each of the network configuration scenarios that follow.