SharePoint farm deployment
ESET Security for Microsoft SharePoint must be installed on all SharePoint machines with the Web Server role to guarantee user protection using the On-access file scanner. Any of those machines can be used to execute On-demand database scans. Optionally, ESET Security for Microsoft SharePoint can be installed on SharePoint machine(s) with the Application Server role, where it can be used to perform On-demand scans of the SharePoint content database but cannot serve as an On-access filter.
In the diagram below, the server environment is divided to show the tiers where ESET protection is required and where it is optional.
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In a SharePoint farm setting, you only need to run the On-demand scan from one machine. The entire SharePoint farm database will be scanned. |
Because On-demand scan is a resource-intensive operation, we recommend running it on a machine where increased load during the scan is not a problem. From a functional point of view, running the On-demand scan from any SharePoint farm machine that can access the content database, regardless of its role, is fine.
The speed of On-demand scan depends heavily on the throughput of the database server and network. To increase database scanning throughput in large SharePoint farms, run On-demand scan on more than one machine and configure each machine to scan different (non-overlapping) parts of the content database. Note that this will increase the database server load, and its benefits should be evaluated by the farm administrator.