F-Secure Policy Manager

Push installations
This section describes how to push installation packages to hosts.
The only difference between the Autodiscover Windows hosts and the Push install to Windows hosts
features is how the target hosts are selected: autodiscover browses the Windows domains and user can
select the target hosts from a list of hosts, push install allows you to define the target hosts directly with IP
addresses or host names. After the target hosts are selected, both push installation operations proceed the
same way.
Note: Before you start to install F-Secure products on hosts, you should make sure there are no
conflicting antivirus or firewall programs installed on them.
Autodiscover Windows hosts
Target hosts can be selected with the Autodiscover feature.
To select target hosts:
1. Select the target domain.
2. Select Edit > Autodiscover Windows hosts from the menu.
Alternatively, click the button.
3. From the NT domains list, select one of the domains and click Refresh.
The host list is updated only when you click Refresh. Otherwise cached information is displayed for
performance reasons. Before clicking Refresh, you can change the following options:
• Hide already managed hosts. Select this check box to show only those hosts, which do not have
F-Secure applications installed.
• Resolve hosts with all details (slower). With this selection, all details about the hosts are shown,
such as the versions of the operating system and Management Agent.
• Resolve host names and comments only (quicker). If all hosts are not shown in the detailed view
or it takes too much time to retrieve the list, this selection can be used. Note, that sometimes it may
take a while before Master browser can see a new host recently installed in the network.
4. Select the hosts to be installed.
Press the space bar to check selected host(s). Several hosts can be easily selected by holding down the
shift key and doing one of the following:
• clicking the mouse on multiple host rows,
• dragging the mouse over several host rows,
• using the up or down arrow keys.
Alternatively, you can right-click your mouse. Use the host list’s context menu to select:
• Check - checkmarks the selected host(s) (same as pressing the space bar).
• Uncheck - removes the checkmark from the selected host(s) (same as pressing the space bar).
• Check all - checkmarks all hosts in the selected Windows domain.
• Uncheck all - removes the checkmark from all hosts in the selected Windows domain.
5. Click Install to continue.
After you have selected your target hosts, you still need to push-install the applications to hosts.
Push install to Windows hosts
You can also select target hosts with the Push install to Windows hosts feature.
To select target hosts:
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