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Activate

Use the Activate task to activate an supported ESET security product on your devices.

1.From the left hand side menu, click Sites > All Sites and then select the desired site.

2.Click Devices and select the desired device(s).

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3.Click the Quick Job button.

4.In the Quick Job - Select Component window, click Select button next to desired ESET Direct Endpoint Management - Tasks [XXX] component.


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OS specific components

Select desired operating system component: Windows [WIN], macOS [MAC] or Linux [LIN].

5.Select Activate from the TASK drop-down menu.

6.Type your license activation key into the LICENSE field to activate the ESET security product. Alternatively, leave this field blank to use previously configured site-specific licenses in Site variables or if you have a single license for all your sites configured in the Global variables.


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Password required

ESET Business Account (EBA) license account username, password, and public ID required. When entering the aforementioned information, separate each with a space (for example, support@domain.com password XXX-XXX-XXX). For MSP licenses, each customer license must be added individually under their site.

7.Click Run to execute the Quick Job.

A short confirmation message, Job "ESET Direct Endpoint Management - Tasks [XXX]" created successfully, will appear.


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Configure task as a monitoring policy response

You can manually execute tasks via Tasks (Quick Job) or include them as a response to different alerts triggered by the Monitoring (Policy).