Avast Business Cloud Console Console Version 7.26 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction to Avast Business Cloud Management Console....................................................................... 1 Setting up ...................................................................................................................................................... 2 Requirements ............................................................................................................................................ 2 Company Profile ........................................................................................................................................ 3 Close your Avast account .......................................................................................................................... 3 Your Profile ............................................................................................................................................... 3 Manage Companies .................................................................................................................................. 4 User Management .................................................................................................................................... 4 Notification Settings.................................................................................................................................. 5 Language ................................................................................................................................................... 6 Logging Out ............................................................................................................................................... 6 Navigation ..................................................................................................................................................... 7 Navigation Menu....................................................................................................................................... 7 Dashboard ..................................................................................................................................................... 8 Alerts on Your Devices .............................................................................................................................. 8 Network Security - Operating System ....................................................................................................... 9 Threat Detection Statistics ........................................................................................................................ 9 Patch Management – Devices Summary .................................................................................................. 9 Patch Management – Patch Summary...................................................................................................... 9 Adding and Activating Devices ................................................................................................................ 10 Setting up Master Agents and Local Update Servers.............................................................................. 12 Notifications ................................................................................................................................................ 18 Devices ........................................................................................................................................................ 20 Understanding the status of devices ...................................................................................................... 20 Assigning a settings template to devices ................................................................................................ 23 Removing and uninstalling devices ......................................................................................................... 24 Groups ..................................................................................................................................................... 24 Actions on the Device page ..................................................................................................................... 26 Viewing device details ............................................................................................................................. 29 Tasks ............................................................................................................................................................ 31 Task history ............................................................................................................................................. 31 Viewing tasks .......................................................................................................................................... 31 Creating tasks on the Tasks page ............................................................................................................ 32 Scanning devices ..................................................................................................................................... 32 Sending a message to all managed devices ............................................................................................ 33 Updating device software ....................................................................................................................... 34 Shutting down or restarting all managed devices .................................................................................. 34 Patches ........................................................................................................................................................ 36 Patch Management ................................................................................................................................. 36 Patch Scanning ........................................................................................................................................ 36 Choosing Devices to Update ................................................................................................................... 37 Recurring versus Ad Hoc Patching .......................................................................................................... 37 Patching via the Patches page ................................................................................................................ 38 Patch Statuses ......................................................................................................................................... 39 Device Settings ............................................................................................................................................ 40 Default template ..................................................................................................................................... 40 Configuring Avast Business Antivirus with settings templates ............................................................... 40 Active Protection..................................................................................................................................... 43 General Settings ...................................................................................................................................... 74 Antivirus Settings .................................................................................................................................... 75 Troubleshooting Settings ........................................................................................................................ 77 Patch Management via Settings Templates............................................................................................ 78 About File Paths in Settings templates ................................................................................................... 80 Reports ........................................................................................................................................................ 82 Regional Settings ..................................................................................................................................... 82 Reports Overview .................................................................................................................................... 83 Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................. 83 Antivirus Threats report .......................................................................................................................... 83 Patch Report ........................................................................................................................................... 84 Device Report .......................................................................................................................................... 84 Tasks Report ............................................................................................................................................ 84 Subscriptions ............................................................................................................................................... 85 Help & Support ........................................................................................................................................... 88 Avast Technical