Another observation: I can install and then choose additonal languages only on the Antivirus client. (N.b.: the list shows the entries sorted by the english language names, but shows the language names translated. Thus german ends up behind french [“Deutsch” after “Französisch” in the list] this is irritating). I don’t find something like language selection in Avast Business Management Console which would control the language used in the GUI by the AV clients.
Hi Infratech Solutions,
As I mentioned in my former comment, we didn’t enable it due to security reasons. Wouldn’t you consider it as a security hole that this port would be enabled on all the computers in your network if you don’t create a special policy for them?
Yes, I agree. This is the reason of “…or create a rule only to give access to the IP address of the console machine.”
By default, the console must be accesible without any configuration of the final user/customer.
+1 for Infratech Solutions on that matter. At least “localhost” and local IP should be allowed to access Avast BMC by default.
Date format is always MM/DD/YY even if you choose a different language/country from english (spanish in my case) where date format must be DD/MM/YY.
This was communicated in BETA 2.28 (see picture), not fixed.
This should be default. Most places in the world use DD/MM/YY format. Please make this change 
Trying SecureLine VPN: It doesn’t work. I can change the server location and the other settings to autostart the connection, but nothing helps. When I press the “Connect”-button (I use the german GUI so this might be called differently in reality), another task without window opens and closes. But no secured connection is available then. We can reproduce this behaviour on two different (virtual) machines.
Same here.
Hello,
Thanks to some help from the “Beta” thread (thanks Nevik), I managed to get the Docker Containers to work, and the console to load.
Here is the information Nevik kindly provided to me in the other thread:
git clone https://github.com/avast/management-console-config.git cd management-console-config Edit the ".env" file, set AFB_HOSTNAME=hostname_of_your_machine docker-compose ps docker-compose up
Regards, Stephen
“Smart Scan” doesn’t seem to look into the user’s download folder.
A downloaded eicar.com (disabled Avast for the download) didn’t lead to a detection, when I started the fast scan “Smart Scan”. A right-click-scan of the file in Windows Explorer worked though and led to a detection.
Releasing the file from Virus Vault with Avast BMC didn’t move the file back to the download-location. This happened when I disabled the Avast protection for some time again, then the file re-appeared.
During that time, I started another eicar.com-download which got stored as eicar(1).com in the same directory. After the download was finished, I reenabled Avast. The second download was immediatly found, a slide-up informed about it - without starting any scan manually, detection by the resident shield obviously.
“Full Scan” finds the file eicar.com (the restored old file) in the last % of the search thereafter.
This behaviour seems a little weird to me.
Hi, this issue was caused by the AV client bug and it is resolved in the public release of on-premise Console (and the corresponding version of AV).
Thanks for understanding.
Hi,
Anyone else getting a “404 Page Not Found” error when applying for a BETA License?
The official link is here: https://business.avast.com/public/#trial
I can access https://business.avast.com without any issues.
Kind Regards, Stephen
Hi Stephen,
there’s no beta test, atm. The console has been released already.
→ https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=208302.0
Hi.
Thank you for your reply.
I’m a little confused by all of this. We currently have the SOA Console (for Endpoint Protection suite Plus), and I thought the idea was that this “on-premise” console was going to replace it. Is it a different product entirely?
Regards, Stephen
You’re welcome. (More here: https://blog.avast.com/topic/business-security)