Wishlist for next major release of ADNM.

Avast Business Avast Distributed Network Manager
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  1. More remote support for VRDB.
    Ability to initiate remote VRDB generation.
    Ability to find out when the last VRDB generation happened.

  2. Ability to manage licenses remotely.
    Viewing each machines license.
    Updating laptop licenses.

  3. Increase the dynamic group query ability.
    Allow a group to be made consisting of any computer that has had a virus detected on it.
    Allow groups to be made based on server or netclient avast version.

  4. Allow the report filter criteria Computer Name Mask and Group Name Mask to browse the computer catalog and dynamic groups just like other tasks can.

  5. Allow me to generate a report only if a dynamic group has an object in it. More specifically I want to generate a report nightly and have avast email me that report if there is any computer in my network that has a virus on it. If all my computers all currently marked clean I don’t want the report generated.

2

Change the folder icon for the computer catalog red and the subfolders red whenever a virus is detected. For instance if computer Snoopy in Folder Peanuts had a virus then not only Snoopy but the folder Peanuts and the Computer Catalog icons would turn red.

3

The ability to add a comment to a computer and then retrieve that in a report.

4

As an add on to my first post point #5 -

In the task chaining section of a task allow me to create a task that will send an email notification when the task is done and allow it to pass parameters such as the host it ran on, the name of the task, the completion status of the task, and task specific parameters such as:
For a database management tasks - status of db, jobs cleaned out, size of db
For a Demand disk scan - viruses found on what systems, systems scanned
For a discovery task - new computers discovered

Just a starting point I’m sure.

5

It would be fantastic if the discovery could be limited to a list of subnets. I’m in the process of changing from CA to Avast, and will be doing so over the next year. I want to see new computers in the subnets already deployed, or in process, but don’t want to see the other 1500 not yet on the schedule.

6

Voltorb, what exactly do you call a subnet?
You mean IP subnets? (different address masks)

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Voltorb an easy way to view only the machines with avast! installed is to create a dynamic group with the criteria of VPS version > 0. That group will only contain those systems that have avast installed and better yet will update automatically as new systems are converted over.

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Yes, IP Subnets. Actually, what I want is to only discover by IP subnet. I’m not at all concerned about machines outside the current deployment area, but I do want to know about new machines discovered in the defined deployment subnets so Avast can be deployed. It would also be nice to know if a discovered machine is running any Anti-Virus product, and even better to know which one. Let’s say for example identify any machines running Symantec. I could then build a deployment package to uninstall symantec, reboot, then install Avast. I’m probably dreaming here, but that’s an idea of what I have to deal with.