Install Sophos Enterprise Console: management console, management server, update manager

Go to the server on which you want to install the Sophos Enterprise Console management console, management server, and update manager. Ensure that it is connected to the internet.

The hostname of this server must be different to that of the other servers on which you install an update manager.

If User Account Control (UAC) (on Windows Server 2008 or later) is turned on, turn it off and restart the server. You can turn UAC on again after you have installed Sophos Enterprise Console and subscribed to Sophos updates.

Log on as an administrator.

  • If the server is in a domain, use a domain account that has local administrator rights.
  • If the server is in a workgroup, use a local account that has local administrator rights.

To install the update managers:

  1. Locate the Sophos Enterprise Console installer that you downloaded earlier and double-click it.
  2. Extract the installation files to the suggested destination folder or another one of your choice. The folder must be on this server.

    An installation wizard guides you through installation. Accept the default options, except as shown below:

    1. On the Components Selection page, make sure that Management Console and Management Server are selected and Database is not selected.
    2. On the Database Details page, enter the location and name of the Sophos Enterprise Console databases that you created on the other server. Enter the details of an account that can log onto both this server and the server on which you installed the Sophos Enterprise Console databases. If the servers are in a domain, you can use a domain account. If the servers are in a workgroup, use a local account that exists on both servers. This should not be an administrator account.

When installation is complete, log off or restart the server (the final page in the wizard shows which). When you log on again, Sophos Enterprise Console opens automatically and the Download Security Software Wizard runs. Cancel this and run it later when instructed to do so by this guide.