Installing Control Manager Agents and MCP

Most Trend Micro products released after the 4th quarter of 2003 can install Control Manager agents as part of the product installation. However, you may still need to install agents from Control Manager in the following instances:

If you will install InterScan Messaging Security Suite 5.1 (IMSS), install this agent before other products.

The installation order of the remaining agents does not matter, although Trend Micro recommends installing eManager agents before the regular antivirus product agents.

The following products support Trend Micro Management Communication Protocol (MCP):

Installation process

See Prepare for Control Manager agent installation before performing the following steps:

  1. Obtain required files

  2. Obtain agent packages (Optional)

  3. Install the agents

See also:

Minimum system requirements

Recommended system requirements

Understanding the Control Manager agent remote installation

Download the Control Manager agent remote installation program

Obtain the UNIX agent installation script

Install a UNIX-based Control Manager agent

Install the Trend VCS agent for OfficeScan Corporate Edition

Install the Control Manager agent for InterScan VirusWall for Unix

Install the Trend VCS agent for ScanMail for Lotus Notes

Verify a successful agent installation

Remove a Windows-based Control Manager agent

Remove a UNIX-based Control Manager agent