A
deployment plan allows you to set the
order in which
Control Manager updates
your groups of managed products. With
Control Manager,
you can implement multiple deployment plans to different managed
products at different schedules. For example, during an outbreak
involving an email-borne virus, you can prioritize the update of
your email message scanning software components such as the latest
virus pattern file for Trend Micro ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange.
The Control Manager installation
creates two deployment plans:
-
Deploy to All Managed Products Now (Default): default
plan used during component updates
-
Deploy to All Immediately (Outbreak-Prevention): default
plan for the Outbreak Prevention Services Prevention Stage
By default, these plans deploy updates to all products in the
Product Directory immediately.
Select or create plans from the Manual and Scheduled download
screens. Customize these plans, or create new ones, as required
by your network. For example, create deployment plans according
to the nature of the outbreak:
-
Email-borne virus
-
File-sharing virus
Deploying updates to the Product Directory is separate from the
download process.
Control Manager downloads
the components and follows the deployment plan according to manual
or scheduled download settings.
When creating or implementing a deployment plan, consider the
following points:
-
Assign deployment schedules to folders, not to specific
products.
Planning the contents of the Product Directory folders,
therefore, becomes very important.
-
You can only include one folder for each deployment plan
schedule.
However, you can specify more than one schedule
per deployment plan.
-
Control Manager bases
the deployment plan delays on the completion time of the download,
and these delays are independent of each other.
For example,
if you have three folders to update at 5 minute intervals, you can
assign the first folder a delay of 5 minutes, and then set delays
of 10 and 15 minutes for the two remaining folders.
