Trend VCS
Trend VCS is a centralized management console for coordinating, tracking, and maintaining the variety of anti-virus software products often installed on a network—regardless of platform or physical location.
eManager is not currently accessible from Trend VCS. InterScan VirusWall, however, is fully compatible with Trend VCS. What this means is that you can simultaneously configure multiple copies of InterScan using Trend VCS, and administer InterScan along with your other Trend anti-virus products from a common Trend VCS console.
With Trend VCS, every anti-virus product you have running on LAN or WAN can be managed from the same console—regardless of that product's platform or actual physical location.
Other advantages of running InterScan with the Trend VCS include:
aggregate log files for enterprise-wide virus statistics
centralized virus pattern file updates
uniform configuration standards
simultaneous configuration changes
platform independence
To set up InterScan to work with Trend VCS, you need to install an "Agent" that will handle communication between InterScan and the Trend VCS. This Agent can be installed at the same time as InterScan, or it can be added later. To install the Agent after InterScan, download the Agent install program (TVCSAgentSetup.exe) from the Trend VCS server and run the install from the computer that will host the Agent.
After the Agent has been installed, you can access InterScan in the Trend VCS console via web browser by entering the URL and the Trend VCS password. From the Trend VCS console, InterScan can be administered in conjunction with every other anti-virus product on the network.
Possible management schemes include:
Having a single, central anti-virus administrator manage all anti-virus programs, including InterScan,
Designating a single InterScan administrator to administer all copies of InterScan on the LAN or WAN,
Assigning InterScan to the local node administrator of the LAN where it resides,
Any other scheme
InterScan can also be administered locally, from the computer where it was installed. Installing an Agent and registering it with a Trend VCS server will not alter local operations in any way.
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