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General information IV Admin provides an overall and real time view of AV activities and status of each and all users, in a local network and over WAN. IV Admin uses its own protocol, based on polling, in all environments and platforms that feature standard Microsoft networking and sharing. IV Admin can run on several computers, independently, so that each member of the administrative group can have her/his own view on her/his workstation. IV Admin, with the infra-structure that it deploys, will allow certain actions to be taken from an administrator workstation, such as launching an application to execute on the user machine, or sending messages to users. Installation Double click the IV Admin icon, and the program should start. Initialization HKLM / Software / NetZ Computing
Ltd. / InVircible / Install / To initialize, IV Admin needs to know the full name of your InVircible server, and the location of the shared directories. Initialization is taken care of by the "Find InVircible Server" feature, incorporated in IV Admin. Note that the name of the poll share is mandatory and should always be "IVSRC_CMD$". If running IV Admin on a workstation that had its standard IV package installed from the network (not a local installation), then IV Admin will initialize automatically without requiring further intervention. On condition that you have administrative privileges on the IV share, of course, and the poll share was named properly - see above. If IV Admin does not detect the required entries in the registry, then the "Find InVircible Server" dialogue will pop up (see "Screens and use", in this manual). Click then the "find all" button and select the server, or just type the server name in the appropriate box and click "OK". The poll share on the sought server must have the mandatory name "IVSRC_CMD$" in order to be found. To prevent unauthorized use of IV Admin, one should possess "write" permission over the IVSRC_CMD$ share, in order to view data, or to perform IV administration tasks! Without such permissions, IV Admin will show blank and deny its misuse. To manage different and independent segments of your network(s) from a single instance of IV Admin, use the "Find InVircible Server" feature. The dialogue will show a list of all servers that have an IV network installation, and support administration, from which you can select. Configuration of the IV Admin server NT server: The shares required for IV Admin are automatically created by the IV setup program, Ivwinst.exe. The Ivwinst wizard must be run on the server, from the local machine, in 'server' installation mode. When prompted by the wizard for the 'main share', then specify the path of the source from which IV is deployed to workstations, typically \\server_name\IVSRC. The setup wizard will then create the 'poll' and 'log' shares on the server, under the IV main share, and automatically set the permissions of these shares. The log share is set as 'read-write' to all users, and the poll share as read-only. To complete the installation, the wizard will next check the system login script (batch) and edit it if necessary. Finally, the users profile INI files in the IVSRC directory will be edited to register the IV Admin shares in the clients' registry, through running the login script. The shares info is edited into the INI profile(s), by adding them to the [Install] section. The following is a typical section of such INI file, after it was edited: [Install] The shares will be deployed to the workstations registry , as they connect to the network and run the login script. Novell and other than NT servers: The deployment of IV Admin in other than NT networks is basically the same as described above, yet manual intervention will be required to setup the distribution. First, the 'main', 'poll' and 'log' shares should be created manually. The IV installation directory on the server is recommended to serve as the main share (InstShare). Next, create separate directories under the main share, one as 'poll' and the other as 'log' share, and use the platform's own tools for setting the new shares permissions. Note that the poll share should be given the mandatory name "IVSRC_CMD$" in order to be recognized by IV Admin. Make the log share 'read-write' to 'everyone', and give 'file scan', 'modify', 'delete', 'rename' and 'execute' permissions to all users in the 'Log' share. The log share is where workstations write their reports, leave messages and manage temporary files. The 'Poll' share should be made read-only to all users (everyone). The poll share should also permit 'file scan', and 'execute' to all, but deny 'rename', 'modify', and 'delete'! Only administrator members should have all permissions to the poll share, to let them run and manage IV Admin. The Poll directory is where the clients' IV checks for administration instructions for what to do. As in NT networks, the registration of the IV Admin shares on the workstation is done through the login script, from definitions stored in the INI file. Therefore, edit the user profile INI file to contain the following lines, under the [Install] section: InstShare=SL\\<your server
name>\<the IV main share name> A typical [Install] section will look like this: [Install] You are all set now to deploy IV Admin to your workstations, as they log to
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