Administrator's Guide - Kerio Software Archive

Administrative settings
Figure 17.4
Update checking — Kerio Control
Software Appliance / VMware Virtual Appliance
may offer download and installation.
Open the Update Checker tab in the Configuration → Advanced Options section to view
information on a new version and to set parameters for automatic checks for new versions.
Check for new versions regularly
Use this option to enable/disable automatic checks for new versions.
performed:
Checks are
• 2 minutes after each startup of the Kerio Control Engine,
• and then every 24 hours.
Results of each attempted update check (successful or not) is logged into the Debug log
(see chapter 22.6).
Check also for beta versions
Enable this option if you want Kerio Control to perform also update checks for beta and
Release Candidate versions of Kerio Control.
If you wish to participate in testing of Kerio Control beta versions, enable this option.
In case that you use Kerio Control in operations in your company (i.e. at the Internet
gateway of your company), we recommend you not to use this option (beta versions are
not tested yet and they could endanger functionality of your networks, etc.).
Download new versions automatically
This option is available only in the Software Appliance / VMware Virtual Appliance edition.
If this option is enabled, once a new version of the product is detected, the corresponding
update package is downloaded immediately and the firewall can be updated directly from
the administration interface.
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