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) uses catalog files called cidsync.upd to determine which files it should download from an update location (CID). When you add XML configuration files (e.g. those created with ExportConfig.exe) to your update locations, you must update the catalog files to ensure that your XML files are used. The knowledgebase article on ExportConfig.exe describes how to create, and where to place, configuration XML files.

In Enterprise Console 3.1.x:
ConfigCID.exe is available in the TOOLS folder on the Sophos Anti-Virus Network Install CD, or in the unpacked TOOLS folder (for example)  C:\sec31\Tools\. You must copy the file to C:\Program Files\Sophos\Enterprise Console before perfoming the procedure described below.

What to do

1. To use ConfigCID.exe, you must have write access to the update location. Check this.
2. 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.