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hmDescription:"You can configure specific settings for ESET Management Agent using an ESET Management Agent policy.",
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hmHeader:"<h1 class=\"p_Heading1\"><span class=\"f_Heading1\">ESET Management Agent settings<\/span><\/h1>\n\r",
hmBody:"<p class=\"p_Normal\">You can configure specific settings for ESET Management Agent using an ESET Management Agent policy.<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\">There are pre-defined policies for the ESET Management Agent. For example, <span class=\"f_UI\">Connection<\/span>—Connect every (Agent connection interval) or <span class=\"f_UI\">Application reporting<\/span>—Report all installed applications (not only ESET applications). For more information on how to enforce location-based policy, read the <a href=\"admin_how_to_automate.html#policy\" class=\"topiclink\">example<\/a>.<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\">Click <span class=\"f_UI\">Policies<\/span> and expand <span class=\"f_UI\">Built-in Policies<\/span> &gt; <span class=\"f_UI\">ESET Management Agent<\/span> to edit an existing policy or create a new one.<\/p>\n\r<h2 class=\"p_Heading2\" style=\"page-break-after: avoid;\"><span class=\"f_Heading2\">Connection<\/span><\/h2>\n\r<p class=\"p_NormalList\" style=\"text-indent: 0; page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; padding-left: 13px; margin-left: 19px;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\" style=\"font-family: Arial,\'Lucida Sans Unicode\',\'Lucida Grande\',\'Lucida Sans\';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px\">&#8226;<\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">Servers to connect to<\/span><span class=\"f_NormalList\">—To add ESET PROTECT Server connection details (hostname\/IP and a port number), click Edit server list. Multiple ESET PROTECT Servers can be specified. This can be useful if, for example, you have <a href=\"admin_pol_planed_for_migration.html\" class=\"topiclink\">changed the IP address of your ESET PROTECT Server<\/a> or are doing a migration.<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_NormalList\" style=\"text-indent: 0; page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; padding-left: 13px; margin-left: 19px;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\" style=\"font-family: Arial,\'Lucida Sans Unicode\',\'Lucida Grande\',\'Lucida Sans\';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px\">&#8226;<\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">Data limit<\/span><span class=\"f_NormalList\">—Choose the maximum number of bytes for sending data.<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_NormalList\" style=\"text-indent: 0; page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; padding-left: 13px; margin-left: 19px;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\" style=\"font-family: Arial,\'Lucida Sans Unicode\',\'Lucida Grande\',\'Lucida Sans\';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px\">&#8226;<\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">Connection interval<\/span><span class=\"f_NormalList\">—Choose Regular interval and specify a time value for the connection interval (or you can use a <a href=\"cron_expression.html\" class=\"topiclink\">CRON expression<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\" style=\"text-indent: 0; padding-left: 32px; margin-left: 0;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\" style=\"font-family: Arial,\'Lucida Sans Unicode\',\'Lucida Grande\',\'Lucida Sans\';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px\">&#8226;<\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">Certificate<\/span>—You can manage Peer certificates for ESET Management Agent. Click <span class=\"f_UI\">Change certificate<\/span> and select which ESET Management Agent certificate should be used by ESET Management Agent. For more information, see <a href=\"admin_cert_peers.html\" class=\"topiclink\">Peer Certificates<\/a>.<\/p>\n\r<h2 class=\"p_Heading2\" style=\"page-break-after: avoid;\"><span class=\"f_Heading2\">Updates<\/span><\/h2>\n\r<p class=\"p_NormalList\" style=\"text-indent: 0; page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; padding-left: 13px; margin-left: 19px;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\" style=\"font-family: Arial,\'Lucida Sans Unicode\',\'Lucida Grande\',\'Lucida Sans\';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px\">&#8226;<\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">Update interval<\/span><span class=\"f_NormalList\">—Interval at which updates will be received. Select a Regular interval and configure the settings (or you can use a <a href=\"cron_expression.html\" class=\"topiclink\">CRON expression<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_NormalList\" style=\"text-indent: 0; page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; padding-left: 13px; margin-left: 19px;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\" style=\"font-family: Arial,\'Lucida Sans Unicode\',\'Lucida Grande\',\'Lucida Sans\';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px\">&#8226;<\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">Update server<\/span><span class=\"f_NormalList\">—Update server from which the ESET Management Agent receives application module updates.<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_NormalList\" style=\"text-indent: 0; page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; padding-left: 13px; margin-left: 19px;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\" style=\"font-family: Arial,\'Lucida Sans Unicode\',\'Lucida Grande\',\'Lucida Sans\';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px\">&#8226;<\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">Update type<\/span><span class=\"f_NormalList\">—Select the type of updates you want to receive. Choose either Regular or Pre-release update. We do not recommend that you select Pre-release updates for production systems, as this is a risk.<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\" style=\"text-indent: 0; padding-left: 32px; margin-left: 0;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\" style=\"font-family: Arial,\'Lucida Sans Unicode\',\'Lucida Grande\',\'Lucida Sans\';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px\">&#8226;<\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">Enable automatic upgrade<\/span>—This option applies to ESET Management Agent 8.1 and later. By default, <a href=\"agent_autoupgrade.html\" class=\"topiclink\">ESET Management Agent gets automatically upgraded<\/a> to the latest compatible version. You can turn this option off to disable the automatic upgrade of ESET Management Agent.<\/p>\n\r<h2 class=\"p_Heading2\" style=\"page-break-after: avoid;\"><span class=\"f_Heading2\">Setup<\/span><\/h2>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\">The <a href=\"fs_agent_deploy_password_protection.html\" class=\"topiclink\">password-protected setup<\/a> is a protection feature of ESET Management Agent (Windows only). Click <span class=\"f_UI\">Set<\/span> next to <span class=\"f_UI\">Password protected setup<\/span> to enable the ESET Management Agent setup password protection.<\/p>\n\r<div style=\"text-align: left; text-indent: 0; padding: 0 0 0 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0;\"><table class=\"Table_important\" >\n\r<tr class=\"Table_important\">\n\r<td class=\"Table_important\" style=\"width:4px; background-color:#E9A514;\"><br \/>\n\r<\/td>\n\r<td class=\"Table_important\" style=\"width:20px;\"><p class=\"p_Normal\"><img alt=\"Important\" title=\"Important\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" style=\"margin:2px 0 0 0;width:20px;height:20px;border:none\" src=\".\/images\/important.svg\"\/><\/p>\n\r<\/td>\n\r<td class=\"Table_important\"><p class=\"p_Normal\" style=\"text-indent: 0; padding-left: 13px; margin-left: 0;\"><span class=\"f_Normal\" style=\"font-family: Arial,\'Lucida Sans Unicode\',\'Lucida Grande\',\'Lucida Sans\';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px\">&#8226;<\/span>The password-protected setup was enhanced in version 10.1. Set the password separately for Agent version 10.0 and earlier and 10.1 and later.<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\" style=\"text-indent: 0; padding-left: 13px; margin-left: 0;\"><span class=\"f_Normal\" style=\"font-family: Arial,\'Lucida Sans Unicode\',\'Lucida Grande\',\'Lucida Sans\';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px\">&#8226;<\/span>Record the password in a safe place. If the ESET Management Agent is password-protected, you must provide the password to uninstall, repair or upgrade (with changes) the Agent.<\/p><\/td>\n\r<\/tr>\n\r<\/table>\n\r<\/div>\n\r<h2 class=\"p_Heading2\" style=\"page-break-after: avoid;\"><span class=\"f_Heading2\">Advanced Settings<\/span><\/h2>\n\r<p class=\"p_NormalList\" style=\"text-indent: 0; page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; padding-left: 13px; margin-left: 19px;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\" style=\"font-family: Arial,\'Lucida Sans Unicode\',\'Lucida Grande\',\'Lucida Sans\';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px\">&#8226;<\/span><a id=\"proxy\" class=\"hmanchor\"><\/a><span class=\"f_UI\">HTTP Proxy<\/span><span class=\"f_NormalList\">—Use a proxy server to facilitate internet traffic to clients on your network and Agent replication to ESET PROTECT Server.<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_NormalList\" style=\"text-indent: 0; page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; padding-left: 26px; margin-left: 19px;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\" style=\"font-family: \'Courier New\';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px\">o<\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">Proxy Configuration Type<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_NormalList\" style=\"text-indent: 0; page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; padding-left: 39px; margin-left: 19px;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\" style=\"font-family: Arial,\'Lucida Sans Unicode\',\'Lucida Grande\',\'Lucida Sans\';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px\">&#9642;<\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">Global Proxy<\/span><span class=\"f_NormalList\">—Use one proxy server for Agent replication and for caching of ESET services (for example, updates).<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\" style=\"text-indent: 0; padding-left: 58px; margin-left: 0;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\" style=\"font-family: Arial,\'Lucida Sans Unicode\',\'Lucida Grande\',\'Lucida Sans\';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px\">&#9642;<\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">Different Proxy Per Service<\/span>—Use one proxy for Agent replication and another for caching of ESET services (for example, updates).<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_NormalList\" style=\"page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\">The <\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">Global Proxy<\/span><span class=\"f_NormalList\"> option is only available if you select it in <\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">Proxy Configuration Type<\/span><span class=\"f_NormalList\">. Click <\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">Edit<\/span><span class=\"f_NormalList\"> and set up your proxy settings.<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_NormalList\" style=\"page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\">The two options below are only available if you select <\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">Different Proxy Per Service<\/span><span class=\"f_NormalList\">. You can also use only one of the proxy settings, for example set up only <\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">ESET Services<\/span><span class=\"f_NormalList\"> and leave <\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">Replication<\/span><span class=\"f_NormalList\"> off. Select or deselect the <\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">Use direct connection if HTTP proxy is not available<\/span><span class=\"f_NormalList\"> check box to enable or disable this fallback option.<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_NormalList\" style=\"text-indent: 0; page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; padding-left: 26px; margin-left: 19px;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\" style=\"font-family: \'Courier New\';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px\">o<\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">Replication (to ESET management Server)<\/span><span class=\"f_NormalList\">—Configure connection settings for a <a href=\"https:\/\/help.eset.com\/getHelp?product=protect_install&amp;version=13.0&amp;lang=en-US&amp;topic=arch_proxy\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"return HMTrackTopiclink(this);\" class=\"weblink\">proxy<\/a> that connects Agent to Server.<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\" style=\"text-indent: 0; padding-left: 45px; margin-left: 0;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\" style=\"font-family: \'Courier New\';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px\">o<\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">ESET Services<\/span>—Configure connection settings for a proxy that will cache ESET services.<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_NormalList\" style=\"page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\r<div style=\"text-align: left; text-indent: 0; page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; padding: 0 0 0 0; margin: 0 0 0 19px;\"><table class=\"Table_important\" >\n\r<tr class=\"Table_important\">\n\r<td class=\"Table_important\" style=\"width:4px; background-color:#E9A514;\"><br \/>\n\r<\/td>\n\r<td class=\"Table_important\" style=\"width:20px;\"><p class=\"p_Normal\"><img alt=\"Important\" title=\"Important\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" style=\"margin:2px 0 0 0;width:20px;height:20px;border:none\" src=\".\/images\/important.svg\"\/><\/p>\n\r<\/td>\n\r<td class=\"Table_important\"><p class=\"p_Normal\">The communication protocol between Agent and ESET PROTECT Server does not support authentication. Any proxy solution used for forwarding Agent communication to ESET PROTECT Server that requires authentication will not work.<\/p>\n\r<\/td>\n\r<\/tr>\n\r<\/table>\n\r<\/div>\n\r<p class=\"p_NormalList\" style=\"page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_NormalList\" style=\"text-indent: 0; page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; padding-left: 13px; margin-left: 19px;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\" style=\"font-family: Arial,\'Lucida Sans Unicode\',\'Lucida Grande\',\'Lucida Sans\';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px\">&#8226;<\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">Wake-Up Call<\/span><span class=\"f_NormalList\">—ESET PROTECT Server can run instant replication of the ESET Management Agent on a client machine via <\/span><a href=\"epns.html\" class=\"topiclink\">EPNS<\/a><span class=\"f_NormalList\">. This is useful when you do not want to wait for the regular interval when the ESET Management Agent connects to the ESET PROTECT Server. For example when you want a <\/span><a href=\"admin_ct.html\" class=\"topiclink\">Task<\/a><span class=\"f_NormalList\"> to be run immediately on client(s) or if you want a <a href=\"admin_pol.html\" class=\"topiclink\">Policy<\/a> to be applied right away.<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_NormalList\" style=\"text-indent: 0; page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; padding-left: 13px; margin-left: 19px;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\" style=\"font-family: Arial,\'Lucida Sans Unicode\',\'Lucida Grande\',\'Lucida Sans\';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px\">&#8226;<\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">Compatibility<\/span><span class=\"f_NormalList\">—To allow for management of ESET applications version 5 or earlier by ESET Management Agent, a specific listening port must be set. Also, ESET applications need to be configured to report to this port and the ESET PROTECT Server address must be set to <\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">localhost<\/span><span class=\"f_NormalList\">.<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_NormalList\" style=\"text-indent: 0; page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; padding-left: 13px; margin-left: 19px;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\" style=\"font-family: Arial,\'Lucida Sans Unicode\',\'Lucida Grande\',\'Lucida Sans\';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px\">&#8226;<\/span><a id=\"operating_system\" class=\"hmanchor\"><\/a><span class=\"f_UI\">Operating System<\/span><span class=\"f_NormalList\">—Use the toggles to report certain information or issues on the client computer. For example, enable <\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">Report non-ESET-installed applications<\/span><span class=\"f_NormalList\"> to enable reporting of the installed third-party applications. (The feature applies to Windows and macOS. On Windows, only the applications installed for all users are reported, and user-specific applications are not reported.)<\/span><\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\" style=\"text-indent: 0; padding-left: 32px; margin-left: 0;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\" style=\"font-family: Arial,\'Lucida Sans Unicode\',\'Lucida Grande\',\'Lucida Sans\';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px\">&#8226;<\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">Repository<\/span>—Location of the repository where all installation files are stored.<\/p>\n\r<div style=\"text-align: left; text-indent: 0; page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; padding: 0 0 0 0; margin: 0 0 0 19px;\"><table class=\"Table_note\" >\n\r<tr class=\"Table_note\">\n\r<td class=\"Table_note\" style=\"width:4px; background-color:#3DAAE1;\"><br \/>\n\r<\/td>\n\r<td class=\"Table_note\" style=\"width:20px;\"><p class=\"p_Normal\"><img alt=\"Note\" title=\"Note\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" style=\"margin:2px 0 0 0;width:20px;height:20px;border:none\" src=\".\/images\/note.svg\"\/><\/p>\n\r<\/td>\n\r<td class=\"Table_note\"><p class=\"p_Normal\">The default repository is <span class=\"f_UI\">AUTOSELECT<\/span>.<\/p>\n\r<\/td>\n\r<\/tr>\n\r<\/table>\n\r<\/div>\n\r<p class=\"p_NormalList\" style=\"text-indent: 0; page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-after: avoid; padding-left: 13px; margin-left: 19px;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\" style=\"font-family: Arial,\'Lucida Sans Unicode\',\'Lucida Grande\',\'Lucida Sans\';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px\">&#8226;<\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">Participate in product improvement program<\/span>—Enable or disable the submission of crash reports and anonymous telemetry data to ESET (OS version and type, ESET application version and other application-specific information).<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\" style=\"text-indent: 0; padding-left: 32px; margin-left: 0;\"><span class=\"f_NormalList\" style=\"font-family: Arial,\'Lucida Sans Unicode\',\'Lucida Grande\',\'Lucida Sans\';display:inline-block;width:13px;margin-left:-13px\">&#8226;<\/span><span class=\"f_UI\">Logging<\/span>—Set the log verbosity to determine the level of information that will be collected and logged, from <span class=\"f_UI\">Trace<\/span> (informational) to <span class=\"f_UI\">Fatal<\/span> (most important critical information). The latest ESET Management Agent <a href=\"fs_agent_connection_troubleshooting.html\" class=\"topiclink\">log file<\/a> can be found on a client computer.<\/p>\n\r<h2 class=\"p_Heading2\" style=\"page-break-after: avoid;\"><span class=\"f_Heading2\">Assign<\/span><\/h2>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\">Specify the clients that will receive this policy. Click <span class=\"f_UI\">Assign<\/span> to display all Static and Dynamic Groups and their members. Select the computer that you want to apply a policy on and click <span class=\"f_UI\">OK<\/span>.<\/p>\n\r<h2 class=\"p_Heading2\" style=\"page-break-after: avoid;\"><span class=\"f_Heading2\">Summary<\/span><\/h2>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 0;\">Review the settings for this policy and click <span class=\"f_UI\">Finish<\/span>.<\/p>\n\r<p class=\"p_Normal\">You can request Agent configuration on a managed computer to see the applied Agent policy settings: Click <span class=\"f_UI\">Computers<\/span> &gt; click a computer &gt; <span class=\"f_UI\">Details<\/span> &gt; <span class=\"f_UI\">Configuration<\/span> &gt; <a href=\"computer_details.html#config\" class=\"topiclink\">Request configuration<\/a>.<\/p>\n\r"
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