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Installation Manual
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© 2007 Avira GmbH. All rights reserved.
This manual was created with great care. However, errors in design and contents cannot be excluded. The reproduction
of this publication or parts thereof in any form is prohibited without previous written consent from Avira GmbH.
Errors and technical subject to change.
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AntiVir
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All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Protected
trademarks are not marked as such in this manual. However, this does not mean that they may be used freely.
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1 PREAMBLE...................................................................................................................
1.1 QUALITY ASSURANCE...............................................................................................
1.2 SUPPORT....................................................................................................................
1.3 COPYRIGHT................................................................................................................
1.4 WARRANTY.................................................................................................................
1.5 COPYRIGHT ANNOTATION OF THIRD PARTIES...................................................
2 INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................
2.1 THE MEANING OF THIS MANUAL..........................................................................
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2.2 THE COMPOSITION OF THIS MANUAL..................................................................
3 DESCRIPTION OF THE INSTALLATION..................................................................
3.1 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS.........................................................................................
3.2 INSTALLATION ON ALL CLUSTER NODES.............................................................
3.3 CONFIGURATION IN THE CLUSTER ADMINISTRATOR.......................................
3.4 INSTALLATION IN A MULTI NODE CLUSTER........................................................
3.5 UPGRADE OF A VERSION 6.0 OR LESS TO A VERSION UP FROM 6.1.................
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1 Preamble
1.1 Quality Assurance
ank very much for having decided for Avira AntiVir Exchange. is software oers you
the leading solution for email security. Avira AntiVir Exchange is a high class product that
will support you in all tasks concerning the email management. With this modular program
package you protect your software infrastructure not only against viruses and spam but
also against the loss of condential data and information. Furthermore you benet from
the encryption, classication and secure storage of emails in your enterprise. Our products
stand for innovation and quality for our customers’ satisfaction. Our products are released
after profound quality tests proceeded by our quality assurance team.
Auf eine erfolgreiche Zusammenarbeit
Ihr Avira Team
Copyright 2009 Avira GmbH. All rights reserved.
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1.2 Support
Competent, reliable and fast – English speaking experts will answer your questions regarding the Avira products and will help you with words and deeds whenever it is required.
With the Avira Gold Support you reach a qualied contact person from Monday to Friday
from 08:00 a.m. to 05:00 p.m. via phone and email for the whole duration of your license.
You receive the contact data for the Gold Support Exchange Cluster after
purchase.
As Gold Support customer you receive an exclusive support and expert advice – fast and
directly. Our experienced and friendly supporters are at your disposal for all technical questions regarding the AntiVir security solutions.
1.3 Copyright
e Avira GmbH, in the following called Avira, is the proprietor of all commercial copyrights
of this documentation. All rights are reserved.
1.4 Warranty
e Avira GmbH does not assume warranty, neither explicit nor implicit, for the documentation. is comprehends also quality, design, use in trade or applicability for a certain purpose.
e manual is intended as a general product description. It is denitely not a guarantee of
special features or a warranty declaration. Specications and design of our products can be
changed at any time without previous announcement, especially in order to meet the technical progress. Please, contact the Sales department for current information.
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1.5 Copyright Annotation of Third Parties
e Avira AntiVir Exchange program contains the following software and les:
ZLib software:
ZLib 1.2.1/ 1.1.4
(c) 1995-2002 Jean-Loup Gailly and Mark Adler.
Xerxes 2.1.0/ 2.5
(c) 1999-2001 e Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).
All rights reserved.
gSOAP
(c) 2001-2002 Robert A. van Engelen, Florida State University. All Rights
Reserved.
Open SSL
(c), software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit
1998-2002 e OpenSSL Project (http://www.openssl.org/). All rights reserved.
Original SSLeay
(c), cryptographic software
1995-1998 Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com). All rights reserved.
e Expat XML Parser
Copyright (c) 1998, 1999, 2000 ai Open Source Software Center Ltd and Clark Cooper
Copyright (c) 2001, 2002 Expat maintainers. All rights reserved.
STL Port DLL
Copyright (c) Microsoft CorporationCopyright 1999,2000 Boris Fomitchev
e le dbghelp.dll
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft, Windows and the Windows logo are registered trade mark of the Microsoft Corporation in the United Stated and/or other countries.
Please, nd further information of the involved third party products in the document “ird
Party License Agreement” which is available in the program directory.
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2 Introduction
2.1 The Meaning of this Manual
You would like to handle your application in a professional way. We want to help you. at’s
why we tried to explain all details in this manual as comprehensible as possible. If you
should have suggestions for improvements we are grateful for feedback.
2.2 The Composition of this Manual
We follow the following policies in this manual:
bold:
Names of menus and entries, name of windows, boxes and list elds, messages, le names
and important facts are in bold.
cursive:
Entries you have to do as administrator are written cursively.
Bookman old style:
Program code and paths are written in in Bookman old style:
Links:
Underlined text is a hyper link, which we usually color blue.
We use the following symbols:
e information symbol stands for a hint. It advises you of particularities
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which you should take into consideration.
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e eye means “Attention!”, take a look. Here you nd important
Information which you should consider if you don’t want to risk loss of data,
system damages or other unpleasant side eects. Please, read these passages
attentively.
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Beside these gift symbols we give you assistance for certain problems,
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tips and tricks or unusual solutions and particularities.
3 Description of the Installation
3.1 System Requirements
For the installation of AntiVir Exchange the following prerequisites are given:
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CD-ROM drive or network access
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RAM: Exchange recommendation plus additional 64 MB
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Hard disk: at least 400 MB for installation
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Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1
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Operating systems:
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Windows 2000 Server from Service Pack 4
Windows 2000 Advanced Server from Service Pack 4
Windows Server 2003
Windows 64 bit operating systems are not supported
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Exchange-Server:
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User Rights
MS Exchange Server 2000 from Service Pack4
MS Exchange Server 2000 Enterprise Edition from Service Pack 4
MS Exchange Server 2003
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User logged on to Active Directory with Administration rights
for the Active Director
Please, deactivate an existing real time or on access scan function of the used virus
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scanners in the directory
<Installation directory>\AnitVirData
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3.2 Installation on all Cluster Nodes
Please, proceed the following actions on all cluster nodes rst:
1. Execute the setup for the installation of AntiVir Exchange (setup.exe).
Make sure that the “cluster installation” box is active.
2. 2. After nishing the installation start the le InstallCluster.bat. Directory:
<Installation directory>\Support\Cluster. is le copies the necessary les into the
<Windows>\Cluster directory and executes the registration
On the rst cluster node the script has to work correctly. On the further nodes
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the error 183 may occur (Attempt of multiple registration of the cluster resource
type). is error can be neglected because it does not aect the installation.
3.3 Configuration in the Cluster Administrator
After the installation of AntiVir Exchange on all cluster nodes congurations are possible
in the cluster via the cluster administrator of the AntiVir Exchange Service via the new resource type “AntiVir Exchange.
Example:
e following example shows a 2-nodes-active-passive-cluster. e table contains all
information about the descriptions and graphics. :
Type of cluster 2-nodes-active-passive-cluster
Name of the cluster ClusterEVS1
Names of the cluster nodes
CLNODE1
CLNODE2
Name of the ExchangeVirtualServer EVS1
Drive letter of the shared disc of the Exchange-
Gehen Sie wie folgt vor:
VirtualServer
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Please, proceed as follows:
1. Add a new cluster resource to the group “EVS1”. e name of the cluster resource can be
chosen individually.
2. 2. Enter all cluster nodes as “possible owner” :
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3. Enter the Exchange shared disc beneath “dependencies” and the network name of the
cluster group “EVS1”. :
4. In the last dialogue “Parameters” the drive letter of the dependent Exchange shared disc
is shown. During the following conguration the directory <AntiVirData> and the conguration (CongData.xml) of the cluster resource (EVS1) is copied to this drive.
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Result: e cluster resource (ECS1) has been created successfully but data (<AntiVirData>directory and CongData.xml) has not yet been copied to the drive “N”. e cluster
resource is shown “oine” in the cluster administrator.
Only when the cluster resource (EVS1) is online, the data can be copied successfully and the
corresponding registry entries can be changed.
Please, proceed the following steps:
5. Cluster administrator
line.
6. Open the property dialogue via a double click on cluster resource “(EVS1). Open the tab
site “Parameters”. e button “Install Settings” is active now.
cluster resource “(EVS1)” g right mouse key g Bring On-
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Make sure that you are currently on the computer which has access to the shared
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7. Please, choose the button Install Settings. e directory <AntiVirData> and the conguration le CongData.xml are copied to the Exchange SharedDisc.
disc. e copying of the conguration le in the cluster administrator does only
work using a physical computer.
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Example:
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In the registry you nd the following values before copying:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\H+BEDV\AntiVir Exchange\3.0\General]
„Data“=“C:\Program Files\H+BEDV\AntiVir Exchange\AntiVirData“
„Config“=“C:\Program Files\H+BEDV\AntiVir Exchange\Config\ConfigData.xml“
„InQ“=“ C:\Program Files\H+BEDV\AntiVir Exchange\AntiVirData\InQ“
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After copying you will nd the following directories/les on the SharedDisc:
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N:\Program Files\H+BEDV\AntiVir Exchange\AntiVirData\ (Inkl. Unterverzeich-
nisse)
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e registry has been adapted in the following way:
N:\Program Files\H+BEDV\AntiVir Exchange\AntiVirData\InQ
N:\Program Files\H+BEDV\AntiVir Exchange\Cong\CongData.xml
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\H+BEDV\AntiVir Exchange\3.0\General]
„Data“=“N:\Program Files\H+BEDV\AntiVir Exchange\AntiVirData“
„Config“=“N:\Program Files\H+BEDV\AntiVir Exchange\Config\ConfigData.xml“
„InQ“=“N:\Program Files\H+BEDV\AntiVir Exchange\AntiVirData\InQ
8. e cluster resource “(EVS1) only accepts the changes if it is switched oine and online
again.
A check is possible by means of the EventLogs and the registry after restarting the online
mode and after a “failover”.
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3.4 Installation in a Multi Node Cluster
e installation of the cluster resource is proceeded in the same way as the previously described installation.
For an installation on a multi node cluster the steps previously described have to be proceeded on all active nodes in order to create all cluster resources. For example in a 3-1 cluster (3 active and 1 passive node) 3 cluster resources have to be created for the three active
nodes in the group “AntiVir Exchange”. e allowed nodes are respectively the active node
and the passive node which can overtake its role. e AntiVir setup has to be proceeded also
on the passive nodes.
3.5 Upgrade of a Version 6.0 or less to a Version up from 6.1
In case of an upgrade from a version 6.0 or less it is not possible to get to a new
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In order to proceed the upgrade, please, execute the following steps:
1. Stop the SMTP service and set the AntiVir cluster resource oine.
2. Copy the le CongData.xml from the cluster resource drive to each cluster node.
3. Delete the cluster resource.
4. Change the path information of the registry values “Data”, “Cong” and “InQ” to the
original path of the system partition (see point 7 on page 10: here from drive N to drive C).
5. Uninstall AntiVir Exchange on the cluster node.
resource DLL from an old cluster conguration.
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6. Execute a new installation of AntiVir Exchange on all cluster nodes (see “Installation
on all cluster nodes” and Conguration in the cluster administrator)
7. Save the the CongData.xml back to the cluster resource drive.
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