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Settings
This button opens the Update Settings dialog box, which helps you configure the Update module to download updates automatically. Let's see them in detail.
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General Config
This tab provides you with general options for configuring the Update module.
It consist of following options to configure:
- Select Mode: It indicates the mode for downloading updates from eScan update servers. You can select the appropriate options from FTP, HTTP, and Network.
- Proxy Settings: In this section, you can configure the proxy settings for downloading updates through HTTP proxy or FTP proxy servers. In both case, you need to provide the IP address of the proxy server if any, the port number, and the authentication credentials. In case of FTP servers, you also need to provide the format for the user ID in the Logon Type section. Logon ID is defined as User@siteaddress, OPEN siteaddress, PASV Mode, and Socks.
- Network: In this section, you need to provide Source UNC Path. This section will enable only if you select Network in the Select Mode section.
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After Update
This tab helps you configure the actions that eScan should perform after Updater downloads the updates.
You can configure the following options:
- Execute this Program, after downloading updates successfully: When you select this check box, eScan runs a particular application or program after eScan updates are downloaded successfully.
This section has the following options and will be enabled once you select Execute this Program, after downloading updates successfully check box: - Program Name: Sometimes, you may need a particular program to run after you have downloaded updates for eScan. You can simply specify the path of the program in the Program Name box. Alternatively, you can use the Browse button to navigate to the path where the program executable is stored.
- Start In: You can also specify the program to execute from a given location. You can either specify the location in the Start In box or use the Browse button to navigate to the folder where the program should execute.
- Parameters: Some programs require additional parameters to execute. You can specify these start parameters in the Parameters box.
- Run: The default mode is normal mode. Whenever a program runs, it runs in its own window. You can specify whether the window should be in the maximized, minimized, normal, or hidden state. The default state of the window is normal.
- Terminate the process forcibly: You can also forcibly terminate the process to free system resources by selecting this option.
- Don't wait for process to complete: A process may require a long time to end. In such cases, you can allow other processes to run along with the specified process by selecting this option.
- While this process is being executed, suspend all operations for <placeholder> seconds: The default value is 1. You can also ensure that the no other process runs while the specified process is running for a given time interval by setting the interval in the box.
- Update Notification: When you select this option, eScan sends an email notification to the email address specified in the To box in the Update Notification section.
- From: The default email address provided is escanuser@escanav.com. You can specify the sender's email address in the notification mail in this box.
- To: You can specify the recipient's email address in the notification mail in this box.
- SMTP Server: The default IP set is 127:0:0:1. You can specify the IP address of the SMTP server in this box.
- SMTP Port: The default port set is 25. You can specify the port number of the SMTP port in this box.
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Scheduling
The Scheduler automatically polls the Web site for updates and downloads the latest updates when they are available. You can also schedule downloads to occur on specific days or at a specific time.
It has following options:
- Automatic Download: This option is selected by default and configures the Update module to query and download the latest updates automatically from the MicroWorld website. You can configure the query interval by using the following setting.
- Query Interval: The default interval set is 120 minutes. You can set the interval in minutes, after which eScan should query the web site for latest updates.
- Schedule Download: This option is set as Daily by default. You can also schedule downloads to occur on specific days or on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. In addition, eScan also provides you with the facility of downloading updates at a specific time. By default, the time is set to 1:50:00 P.M. Type or select the time at which you want eScan to download updates, by clicking the arrow icon. When you configure this setting, the Scheduler checks the MicroWorld Web site for latest updates at the specified time and downloads them if they are available.
All the tabs has 4 common buttons:
Default
This button reset the configuration.
OK
This button is clicked once you click on Apply button to apply the changes.
Cancel
This button closes the popup window without applying the configuration.
Apply
This button applies the changes in the configurations.
