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Enterprise Console: using ConfigCID.exe to implement XML configuration file changes
The command line utility ConfigCID.exe enables you to implement configuration changes contained in Endpoint Security and Control/Sophos Anti-Virus XML configuration files, by modifying the catalog files in your update location (Central Installation Directory, or CID). Your computers will then update themselves with their new configuration from the XML configuration files.
Sophos AutoUpdate (the updating component of Endpoint Security and Control/Sophos Anti-Virus
In Enterprise Console 3.1.x:
ConfigCID.exe is available in the TOOLS folder on the Sophos
What to do
- To use ConfigCID.exe, you must have write access to the update location. Check this.
- Run ConfigCID.exe from a command prompt, specifying the path to the update location as shown below. Type:
Endpoint Security and Control, version 9:configcid \\[servername]\Update Manager\Update Manager\CIDs\Sxxx\ [package]Earlier versions of Sophos products:configcid \\[servername]\interchk\esxp
Before modifying the update location, and the catalog files that it contains, ConfigCID.exe performs some checks to ensure this can be done safely. Then ConfigCID.exe adds, removes, or changes the entries in the catalogue files for the xml files. Networked computers will then download the new configuration.
If you need more information or guidance, then please contact technical support.
- Article ID: 13112
- Created: 23 May 2005
- Last updated: 27 Oct 2009
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