Sophos installer

[CasperSally]

For anyone who uses Sophos, how are you integrating it into your image? Are you using the packages they gave you without modifying them, or taking a composer snapshot of their package installer?

If I install it at reboot with a custom trigger it installs ok, but I'd like to install it on the image if possible (their package fails during image time).

Thanks for any info.

[mark_sampers]

We install at reboot using a script to call a policy to install the Sopho's
mpkg. We use the standard package without modification. We also include a
second package in our policy to set specific preferences. (The second
package is a simple dmg created with Composer containing two plist files.)

-- Mark Sampers
Technology Support Cluster Specialist
Independent School District 196
Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools
3455 153rd Street West
Rosemount, MN 55068
651-423-7973

[John_Wetter]

You'll want to use their package to get the postflights and install it on reboot. If you don't do it that way, you'll likely have issues with it keeping a good connection with the console server.

John
--
John Wetter
Technical Services Manager
Educational Technology, Media & Information Services
Hopkins Public Schools

[jszaszvari]

Same here, We just install after imaging using the .mpkg that our Sophos Enterprise Console server generates.

Then just package it up with a script that runs

/usr/sbin/installer -pkg /private/tmp/SophosAV.mpkg -target /

And that works really well, Our specific config is included in the installer as the EC server generates the installer.

Regards,
John

--

John Szaszvari
Network Manager | Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College
02-9409-6281 | jszaszvari at monte.nsw.edu.au | 128 Miller St, North Sydney

[CasperSally]

Thanks everyone who replied.