Server based management/updater/installer for CAVS & firewall clients?

ajhunt · November 1, 2006, 9:46pm

A few months ago I had some interest email conversations with Melih and was amazed (and pleased!) that Comodo is aiming for commercial use of it’s free products rather than home use only.

To that end, it would be great to have a central management interface to install/manage/monitor client machines on the network.

BTW - great work!

Melih · November 6, 2006, 8:56pm

mid December we will have a version for Central Management
you can be the first to try it out
pls watch this space

Melih

panic · November 6, 2006, 10:36pm

Hey AJ,

Just for info, have a loo at

https://forums.comodo.com/index.php/topic,587.75.html

This is being kicked around by a few members and Comodo are following this closely. If you can contribute anything, please jump in. The more heads the merrier.

Cheers,
Ewen

ajhunt · November 7, 2006, 10:04pm

Hi Melih!

Is there any news on the release of Central Management?

Cheers!

Andy

ajhunt · November 7, 2006, 10:15pm

Hi Ewen - I’ll certainly check out the post and contribute what I can :THNK

system · December 3, 2006, 7:53am

Maybe comodo could start packaging its products in MSI installers. I’m no sysadmin, but I thought those were easier for windows shops to roll out?

ajhunt · December 13, 2006, 3:32pm

HI Melih!

Just wondering if there is any news on the release of Central Management?

Cheers

Andy

Melih · December 13, 2006, 4:36pm

in jan sometime fingers crossed.

Melih

ajhunt · March 23, 2007, 10:52pm

Hi Melih,

Just wondered how things were progressing as January is nearly April

panic · March 23, 2007, 11:52pm

He actually meant Septobuary.

Software release schedules are notoriously elastic and things do tend to slip a bit. Melih did a radio interview recently where he let slip that there would be a centralised management component and a silent install option in version 3 of the firewall (due 16th April, but this also could slip to Septobuary). Hopefully these will make it into the first cut of the V3 beta.

Cheers,
Ewen

Melih · March 24, 2007, 1:16am

I forgot to cross my fingers

We are doing v3 of the firewall first, then we will have central management.

Melih

ajhunt · December 11, 2007, 8:41pm

Hey Melih!

Fingers still crossed ??? Just wondering if the central management is still on the drawing board somewhere. Great work on CFP3 BTW.

Cheers

Andy

panic · December 11, 2007, 10:22pm

Not too much longer. Still not to beta stage, but definitiely not still on the back burner.

Ewen

Melih · December 11, 2007, 10:30pm

confirmed

Melih

ajhunt · December 12, 2007, 12:16pm

Thanks guys. Looking forward to it!

Katharine · December 28, 2009, 12:31pm

I’m not sure if this is what AJHunt had in mind, but I would love to see an update manager.

My problem at the moment is that I am using a borrowed laptop that runs Norton. My application keeps stalling and when I kill it and restart the system tells me that ccsvchost.exe was the culprit.

So I try to be charitable. Maybe Symantec has fixed the problem, I think, and I have just not installed the security updates, just the way I have not installed the Adobe Flash updates and the Picasa updates. I don’t mind updating. What I mind is that when the updates finish they usually demand that I restart the machine, usually when I am doing something else.

When I’m ready to install the updates, as I am now, they are scattered all the over the place.

If I had an app that grouped all my updates in one place I could authorize them to update, and then restart the system once. I could deal with that. Especially if I could click on it at the end of my session, instead of the way the updates popups appear at the beginning of my session.

I realize that this is not really a suggestion for a security product, but I think it could be helpful for Endpoint Security Manager. In that case, it’s the network administrator who has to authorize all those updates anyway.

Thanks and happy new year.

Katharine