Managing the Central Protection

You can connect Dr.Web for UNIX Mail Servers to a central protection server or switch back to the standalone mode, thereby disconnecting the product from the central protection server. To open the page where you can manage central protection, chose the item called Central protection from the settings menu on the Settings page.

To connect Dr.Web for UNIX Mail Servers to a central protection server or to disconnect from it, use the corresponding checkbox on this page.

Connecting to an Anti-Virus Network

At an attempt to connect to a central protection server a pop-up window will appear on the screen; in this window you need to specify the parameters for connecting to the central protection server.

Figure 6. Connection to the central protection server

In the drop-down list located at the top of the window chose one of the methods for connecting to a central protection server. Three methods are available:

•Load from file

•Set manually

•Detect automatically

If you select the Load from file option, then in the corresponding field of this window you will also need to specify a path to a file that contains connection settings. The file is provided by the anti-virus network administrator. If you select the Set manually option, you will need to specify the address and the port of the central protection server. For the Set manually or Detect automatically options, you can also specify the path to the file containing the server’s public key (provided by your network administrator or Internet service provider).

If these fields are filled in, then your connection to the central protection server will succeed only if a correct identifier/password pair was entered. If you leave these fields empty, then connection to the central protection server will succeed only if this connection is approved at the central protection server (either automatically or by the anti-virus network administrator, depending on that server’s settings). Additionally, in the Authentication section you can specify your login (workstation identifier) and password for authentication on the central protection server, if you know them.

Moreover, you can use the Connect as a “newbie” option (to connect as a new user). In this case, if the Newbie mode is allowed on the central protection server for connections from workstations, then the central protection server, after approving this connection, automatically generates a unique identifier/password pair, which will be from this time on used for connecting your computer to the server. Note that in this mode the central protection server generates a new account for your workstation even if your workstation already has another account on the server.

To connect to the server after having specified all the parameters, press the Connect button and wait until the connection procedure completes. To close the settings window without connecting to the server, press the Cancel button.