Mailing of Installation Files

After a new stations account is created in the Control Center, the personal installation package for Dr.Web Agent installation is generated. Installation package contains the Anti-virus installer and the set of parameters for connecting to the Server and for authorization of the station at the Server (description of installation package and the process of Agent installation via this package is given in the Installation Manual, in the Local Installation of Dr.Web Agent section).

After the installation package is created, for the convenience of their distribution, you can sent specific installation packages to the user's email.

To send installation packages, the email content is formed by the following way:

1.Operating system of the station is known:

a)Windows OS: the letter attachment contains Dr.Web Agent for Windows installation package.

b)Linux OS, OS X, Android OS: the letter attachment contains Dr.Web Agent installation package for the corresponding operating system and the configuration file with the settings for connecting to Dr.Web Server.

3.Operating system of the station is unknown—the new station account, Agent in not yet installed:

a)If the Server does not contain the packages for stations under Linux OS, OS X, Android OS (in particular, the extra distribution kit of the Server is not installed): the letter attachment contains Dr.Web Agent for Windows installation package and the configuration file with the settings for connecting to Dr.Web Server for stations under Linux OS, OS X, Android OS.

b)If the Server contains at least one package except packages for stations under Windows OS: the letter attachment contains Dr.Web Agent for Windows installation package, the configuration file with the settings for connecting to Dr.Web Server for stations under Linux OS, OS X, Android OS and the link to download installation packages for stations under Linux OS, OS X, Android OS.

To email installation package

1.Select the Anti-virus network item in the main menu of the Control Center and in the opened window, select the following objects in the hierarchical list:

•select the station to email the installation package generated for this station.

•select the group of stations to email all installation packages generated for stations of this group.

Use ctrl or shift to select several objects at at time.

2.On the toolbar, click General → Mail installation files.

3.In the Mailing of installation files opened section, specify the following parameters:

•In the Recipient email addresses section, specify the email address to sent installation package to. If several stations or groups were selected, specify email addresses to send installation packages of each station separately next to this station name.

•In the Additional section, set the Pack in zip archive flag to pack installation packages into a zip archive. Archiving can be useful if the user's email system contains filters that block sending of executable files in emails attachment.

•In the Sender section, specify the email address which will be set as a sender of the email with installation files.

•In the SMTP server settings section, you can specify SMTP server parameters which will be used to send email. In the parameters are known, e.g. already been specified, this section will be folded, you can unfold it and edit specify parameters, if necessary. At first sending of installation packages, in the opened section you must specify the following parameters:

▫Address—SMTP server address which is used to send emails.

▫Port—SMTP server port which is used to send emails.

▫User, Password (Retype password)—if necessary, specify name and password of SMTP server user, if the SMTP server requires authorization.

▫Set the STARTTLS encoding flag to encrypt data transfer. At this, switching to secured connection is performed by using the STARTTLS command. The 25 port is used by default for the connection.

▫Set the SSL encoding flag to encrypt data transfer. At this, a new secured TLS connection is established. The 465 port is used by default for the connection.

▫Set the Use CRAM-MD5 authentication flag to use CRAM-MD5 authentication on a mail server.

▫Set the Use DIGEST-MD5 authentication flag to use DIGEST-MD5 authentication on a mail server.

▫Set the Use the plain authentication flag to use plain text authentication on a mail server.

▫Set the Use LOGIN authentication flag to use LOGIN authentication on a mail server.

▫Set the Validate the SSL server certificate flag to enable validating the SSL certificate of a mail server.

▫Set the Debug mode flag to get SMTP session detailed log.Click Send.