RE: Using IFS for Antivirus Updates to PC's ?

IFS would seem ideal for that. 

I'm familiar with Sophos in general, but not the specifics, however I'd
guess their application is roughly the same as Symantec's. If so, it
does a lot more than a file system could. It also acts as the central
monitoring station, push deployment server, and configuration master. If
Sophos's does the same it may behoove you to setup a server for the job.
If all their server does is push updates, and you can get the same
result from a file share, then yes, the IFS seems ideal.

-Walden

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chuck Lewis
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 1:44 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: Using IFS for Antivirus Updates to PC's ?

Hi Folks,

 

We are a company with 10 total locations counting Corporate with just
under
100 PC's. Except for the iSeries 810 and a Linux server appliance (only
using the email part of it) there is no other server. All remote sites
are
connected via TCP/IP over Frame Relay.

 

I have been talking with the tech support folks at the antivirus vendor
we
use (Sophos) and they have an application that sits on a server and that
gets updates and then pushes the updates to the client PC's.

 

I told them what we were using (the iSeries) and I do not think they
were
familiar with it but I got this back:

 

It sounds like in your situation, making use of our remote update
utility
would be the best option.  What you could do is take the CD (or use EM
Library..) and keep a central install up to date on your mainframe
server.
As long as the clients can go \\servername\sharename
<file:///\\servername\sharename>  or \\ipaddress\sharename
<file:///\\ipaddress\sharename>  then remote update can grab the files
and
keep the systems up to date.

 

And the thought occurred to me that I could use the IFS for this - maybe
?

 

Any comments/thoughts ?

 

Thanks !

 

Chuck

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