ESET PROTECT – Table of Contents

Enable ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management

To use ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management, you must manage your devices in ESET PROTECT, a cloud-based security management tool. ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management is not available in ESET PROTECT On-Prem.

Prerequisites

To view and enable ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management, ensure you have one of the following tiers:

•ESET PROTECT Elite

•ESET PROTECT Complete

•ESET PROTECT MDR

•ESET PROTECT MDR Ultimate

Note

You can also purchase ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management as a separate add-on for the ESET PROTECT Entry and ESET PROTECT Advanced tier.

You can enable ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management on computers running:

•ESET Management Agent

•ESET Endpoint Security for Windows version 10.1+

•ESET Endpoint Antivirus for Windows version 10.1+

•ESET Server Security for Microsoft Windows Server version 11.0+

•ESET Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Server 11.0+

•ESET Security for Microsoft SharePoint Server 11.0+

•ESET Endpoint Security for macOS version 8.0+

arrow_down_businessESET Endpoint Antivirus for Linux (Patch Management available from version 12.0)
arrow_down_businessESET Server Security for Linux (Patch Management available from version 12.0)

Select the Platform Modules section; in ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management, select the Enable option and a new window will appear:

1.In the Enable ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management window:

a.Verify the Auto-patch management for applications toggle is enabled to automatically apply missing patches to the selected computers.

b.Verify the Operating system auto-updates toggle is enabled to automatically apply OS updates to the selected computers.

c.Targets—keep the default (All devices) or select the targets (computers, static or dynamic group).

d.Optionally, select Always enable on new devices. This option is displayed when you selected All devices.

Important

The Always enable on new devices check box is not available for MSP users.

2.Click the Enable button.

Enable ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management.

A small notification will appear on the side showing deployment details.

ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management enabled

You can review the progress in Platform modules Platform Modules.

Disable ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management

Click the gear Gear icon in the top-right of the ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management tile and select Disable Disable ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management to disable ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management on the managed devices. ESET PROTECT will deactivate ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management and remove the corresponding policy option from all selected devices.

Disable automatic deployment

Click the gear Gear icon in the top-right part of the ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management tile and select Disable Disable auto-enablement to disable automatic deployment on new devices.