Product manual

Contents
1 Introduction 16
1.1 How GFI LanGuard works 16
1.2 How GFI LanGuard Agents work 17
1.3 How GFI LanGuard Relay Agents work 17
1.4 GFI LanGuard Components 17
1.5 About this guide 18
1.5.1 Terms and conventions used in this manual 18
2 Installing GFI LanGuard 19
2.1 Deployment scenarios 19
2.1.1 Deploying GFI LanGuard in mixed mode 19
2.1.2 Deploying GFI LanGuard using Relay Agents 20
2.1.3 Deploying GFI LanGuard in Agent-less mode 21
2.2 System requirements 23
2.2.1 Hardware requirements 23
2.2.2 Software requirements 24
2.2.3 Firewall Ports and Protocols 25
2.2.4 Gateway permissions 26
2.2.5 Supported antivirus/anti-spyware applications 27
2.3 Importing and Exporting Settings 27
2.3.1 Exporting configurations to a file 27
2.3.2 Importing configurations from a file 28
2.3.3 Importing configurations from another instance of GFI LanGuard 29
2.4 Upgrading from previous versions 30
2.5 New installation 32
2.6 Post install actions 35
2.7 Testing the installation 36
3 Achieving Results 38
3.1 Effective Vulnerability Assessment 38
3.2 Effective Patch Management 39
3.3 Using GFI LanGuard for asset tracking 40
3.4 Up to date network and software analysis 41
3.5 Compliance with PCIDSS 42
4 Managing Agents 43
4.1 Deploying Agents 43
4.2 Deploy Agents manually 45
4.3 Agent properties 47
4.4 Agents settings 52
4.5 Configuring Relay Agents 53
4.5.1 Configuring an Agent as a Relay 54
4.5.2 Configuring Relay Agent advanced options 58
4.5.3 Connecting computers to a Relay 60
4.6 Managing Agent groups 61