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Sophos Endpoint Security and Control: administration consoles

Sophos Endpoint Security and Control provides three administration consoles to configure and manage the network:

  • Enterprise Console
  • NAC Manager 
  • Helpdesk Console
  • Enterprise Read-Only Console

Please see below for a description of each console.

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Enterprise Console

Enterprise Console is the main management console for Sophos Endpoint Security and Control.

You must use Enterprise Console to perform the following tasks:

  • create and edit groups of computers
  • create policies for anti-virus and HIPS, updating, application control and firewall
  • assign policies to computers or groups of computers
  • configure on-access scanning
  • configure regular scans to be deployed across the entire network
  • configure email alerts
  • open EM Library and configure central installation directories (CIDs)
  • check the time and date of the latest update to EM Library.

You can also use Enterprise Console, or another console, to perform the following tasks:

  • install or update anti-virus or firewall protection remotely
  • check that the computers on your network have installed the latest updates
  • scan and clean up computers when a problem is found
  • generate reports.

For more information, refer to the Enterprise Console User Manual.

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NAC Manager Console

NAC Manager is a management console used for configuring NAC policies only.

You must use NAC Manager to create NAC policies; they are applied in Enterprise Console.

NAC Manager is accessed by clicking the NAC button in Enterprise Console or by double-clicking a NAC policy in Enterprise Console.

For more information, refer to the NAC Manager guide.

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Helpdesk Console

Helpdesk Console is a management console that is used to administer a group of computers assigned by the administrator. Using it, you can:

  • install or update Sophos Anti-Virus or Sophos firewall protection remotely on the group of computers assigned to the console user
  • configure a scan to be applied to any Windows computer in the console's group
  • acknowledge alerts
  • clean up computers using Sophos Anti-Virus when a virus or other problem is detected
  • view the status of each computer against the policies created in Enterprise Console
  • generate reports.

For more information, refer to the Helpdesk Console User Manual, the Role-based Administration Guide or the ReleaseNotes.

Note: Helpdesk console does not support NAC features. Please see Sophos Helpdesk Console and Enterprise Read-only Console: functionality in Endpoint Security and Control version 8.0 for more information.

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Enterprise Read-Only Console

Enterprise Read-Only Console is a read-only console that can be used to view the status of the computers on the network. Using it, you can:

  • view the status of each computer against the policies created in EnterpriseConsole
  • view the outstanding alerts for any computer on the network
  • generate reports

For more information, refer to the Enterprise Read-Only Console User Manual, the Role-based Administration Guide or the Release Notes.

Note: Enterprise Read-Only console does not support NAC features. Please see Sophos Helpdesk Console and Enterprise Read-only Console: functionality in Endpoint Security and Control version 8.0 for more information.

If you need more information or guidance, then please contact technical support.

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