sophos secondary server address

[IanT]

hi guys,

has anyone got the secondary server address setup in sophos enterprise?

if so what web address is it?

asking as I want to push that address out so laptops etc can use it for updating when teachers are at home

[DaveP]

...has anyone got the secondary server address setup in sophos enterprise?....

I haven't looked at my Sophos setup in a while [Sophos may make changes from time to time] but have a look at my post in this thread:

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/securi...ion-point.html

Could that be what you are looking for?

Alternatively having looked at my home machine updating policy I have this [See attached picture. I have removed the username supplied by Sophos] I am fairly sure that you could do the same for your Secondary Update Source in Console.

[Michael]

In Birmingham schools the Primary server is one of the school servers and the Secondary an LA server, so laptops can update at home. This works great and saves me a lot of time, however I highly recommend you disable updating on dial-up. It's not so bad with identity file updates, but new versions can eat up all the bandwidth!

[IanT]

ahhhhhhhhh thanks guys think thats what I was looking for

[gshaw]

You can also just use Sophos as the Secondary server with your emxxxx username \ password to get updates from the Sophos AV server over the Internet (useful for standalone clients if you don't publish updates over the web yourself)

[Geoff]

In Birmingham schools the Primary server is one of the school servers and the Secondary an LA server, so laptops can update at home. This works great and saves me a lot of time, however I highly recommend you disable updating on dial-up. It's not so bad with identity file updates, but new versions can eat up all the bandwidth!

Same here in Lancs.

[IanT]

applied the policy and works fine now, checked a few laptops and the secondary server address/settings is now set