Control Manager Installation Guide - Trend Micro? Online Help

Planning and Implementing the Control Manager Deployment
example, the mail server administrator may also be responsible for email
protection; regional offices may be independently responsible for their local areas.
A main Control Manager administrator would still be necessary, but he or she
shares the responsibility for overseeing the network with other product or regional
administrators.
Grant Control Manager access to each administrator, but limit access rights to view
and/or configure segments of the Control Manager network that are under their
responsibility.
With one of these administration models initialized, you can then configure the Product
Directory and necessary user accounts to manage your Control Manager network.
Understanding Control Manager Server Distribution
Control Manager can manage products regardless of physical location, and so it is
possible to manage all your antivirus and content security products using a single
Control Manager server.
However, there are advantages to dividing control of your Control Manager network
among different servers (including parent and child servers for Advanced Edition users).
Based on the uniqueness of your network, you can decide the optimum number of
Control Manager servers.
Single-Server Topology
The single-server topology is suitable for small to medium, single-site enterprises. This
topology facilitates administration by a single administrator, but does not preclude the
creation of additional administrator accounts as required by your Administration plan.
However, this arrangement concentrates the burden of network traffic (agent polling,
data transfer, update deployment, and so on) on a single server, and the LAN that hosts
it. As your network grows, the impact on performance also increases.
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