Configuration options for the local server Mirror are accessible (after
adding a valid license key in the license manager, located in the ESET
Smart Security Business Edition Advanced setup section) in the
Advanced update setup: section (to access this section, press F5 and
click Update in the Advanced Setup tree. Click the Setup... button
next to Advanced update setup: and select the Mirror tab).
The first step in configuring the Mirror is to select the Create update
mirror check box. Selecting this option activates other Mirror
configuration options such as the way update files will be accessed
and the update path to the mirrored files.
The methods of Mirror activation are described in detail in the next
chapter, “Variants of accessing the Mirror”. For now, note that there
are two basic variants of accessing the Mirror – the folder with update
files can be presented as a Mirror as a shared network folder, or a
Mirror as an HTTP server.
The folder dedicated to storing update files for the Mirror is defined in
the Folder to store mirrored files section. Click Folder… to browse
for a desired folder on the local computer or shared network folder.
If authorization for the specified folder is required, authentication
data must be supplied in the User name and Password fields. The
User name and Password should be entered in the format Domain/
User or Workgroup/User. Please remember to supply the corresponding
passwords.
When specifying detail Mirror configuration, you can also specify the
language versions for which you want to download update copies.
Language version setup is accessible in the section Files ‑ Available
versions:.
4.4.1.2.4.1 Updating from the Mirror
There are two basic methods of configuring the Mirror – the folder
with update files can be presented as the Mirror as a shared network
folder, or the Mirror as an HTTP server.
Accessing the Mirror using an internal HTTP server
This configuration is the default, specified in the predefined program
configuration. In order to allow access to the Mirror using the HTTP
server, navigate to Advance update setup (the Mirror tab) and select
the Create update mirror option.
In the Advanced setup section of the Mirror tab you can specify the
Server Port where the HTTP server will listen as well as the type of
Authentication used by the HTTP server. By default, the Server port is
set to the value 2221. The Authentication option defines the method
of authentication used for accessing the update files. The following
options are available: NONE, Basic, and NTLM. Select Basic to use the
base64 encoding with basic user name and password authentication.
The NTLM option provides encoding using a safe encoding method.
For authentication, the user created on the workstation sharing the
update files is used. The default setting is NONE, which grants access
to the update files with no need for authentication.
Warning:
If you want to allow access to the update files via the HTTP server,
the Mirror folder must be located on the same computer as the ESET
Smart Security instance creating it.
After configuration of the Mirror is finished, go to the workstations
and add a new update server in the format http://IP_address_of_
your_server:2221. To do this, follow the steps below:
▪ Open ESET Smart Security Advanced Setup and click the Update
branch.
▪ Click Edit… to the right of the Update server drop‑down menu
and add a new server using the following format: http://IP_
address_of_your_server:2221
▪ Select this newly‑added server from the list of update servers.
Accessing the Mirror via system shares
First, a shared folder should be created on a local or a network device.
When creating the folder for the Mirror, it is necessary to provide
“write” access for the user who will save update files to the folder and
“read” access for all users who will update ESET Smart Security from
the Mirror folder.
Next, configure access to the Mirror in the Advanced update setup
section (the Mirror tab) by disabling the Provide update files via
internal HTTP server option. This option is enabled by default in the
program install package.
If the shared folder is located on another computer in the network,
you must specify authentication data in order to access the other
computer. In order to specify authentication data, open ESET Smart
Security Advanced Setup (F5) and click the Update branch. Click the
Setup... button and then click the LAN tab. This setting is the same as
for updating, as described in the chapter “Connecting to LAN”.
After the Mirror configuration is complete, proceed to
the workstations and set \\UNC\PATH as the update server.
This operation can be completed using the following steps:
▪ Open ESET Smart Security Advanced Setup and click Update
▪ Click Edit... next to the Update server and add a new server using
the \\UNC\PATH format.
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