Installing Dr.Web Proxy Server Using Installer

You must have administrative rights on the computer to install Dr.Web Proxy Server.

3.Copy the certificate of the Dr.Web Server to which Dr.Web Proxy Server will be connected (see Connecting Dr.Web Proxy Server to Dr.Web Server) and the Dr.Web Proxy Server installer to the station where you want to install it.

4.Run the Dr.Web Proxy Server installer. The Installation of Dr.Web Proxy Server window containing information about the product being installed will open. Click Next.

5.Set the following parameters in the Network listening settings section of the Dr.Web Proxy Server general settings window:

•In the Listening address field, specify the IP address that Dr.Web Proxy Server will listen on. By default, all interfaces are listened on.

Addresses must be specified in the network address format described in the Appendices, Appendix D. Specification of Network Addresses.

•In the Port field, specify the port number on which Dr.Web Proxy Server will listen. By default, it is port 2193.

•Set the Enable discovery flag to enable the Dr.Web Server simulation mode. This mode allows clients to discover Dr.Web Proxy Server as Dr.Web Server during multicast requests.

•Set the Enable multicasting flag for Dr.Web Proxy Server to respond to multicast requests addressed to Dr.Web Server.

▫In the Multicast group address field, specify the IP address of a multicast group to which Dr.Web Proxy Server will belong. The specified interface will be listened to by Dr.Web Proxy Server for interaction with clients during active Dr.Web Server searches. If you leave this field blank, Dr.Web Proxy Server will not be included in any multicast group. The default multicast group in which Dr.Web Server is included is 231.0.0.1.

•In the Compression mode drop-down list, select the compression mode for data traffic between Dr.Web Proxy Server and the served clients: Dr.Web Agents and Dr.Web Agent installers. In the Level field, select the compression level (from 1 to 9).

•In the Encryption mode drop-down list, select the encryption mode for data traffic between Dr.Web Proxy Server and the served clients: Dr.Web Agents and Dr.Web Agent installers.

•Enter the address of the Dr.Web Server to which connections established by Dr.Web Proxy Server should be forwarded and click

. Dr.Web Proxy Server will connect to this Dr.Web Server after installation to receive its configuration. The certificate of this Dr.Web Server was copied to the station in step 3.

Addresses must be specified in the network address format described in the Appendices, Appendix D. The Specification of Network Addresses.

•In the Encryption drop-down list, select the encryption mode for data traffic between Dr.Web Proxy Server and the specified Dr.Web Server.

•In the Compression drop-down list, select the compression mode for traffic between Dr.Web Proxy Server and each of the specified Dr.Web Servers. In the Level drop-down list, select the compression level (from 1 to 9).

To add one more Dr.Web Server to the traffic forwarding list, enter its address in the field, click

and specify the encryption and compression settings.

To remove the last added Dr.Web Server from the traffic forwarding list, click

After the installation is completed, Dr.Web Proxy Server connects to the first Dr.Web Server from this section to receive the settings.

If the Dr.Web Proxy Server configuration is specified on Dr.Web Server, all the settings specified in the installer will be replaced with the new configuration received from Dr.Web Server.

The connection will established with the first Dr.Web Server specified for traffic forwarding in step 6.

•In the Server certificate field, specify the certificate file copied to the station in step 3. To select the file, click Browse.

•In the Identifier and Password fields, specify the credentials of the account created on Dr.Web Server in step 1.

8.Specify the Dr.Web Proxy Server caching settings in the Caching configuration window:

Set the Enable caching flag to cache data transferred by Dr.Web Proxy Server and specify the following parameters:

•In the Revision deletion period (minutes) field, specify the interval at which old revisions should be deleted from the cache if their number exceeds the maximum number of revisions that are kept. The value is set in minutes. The default value is 60 minutes.

▫In the Number of revisions to keep field, specify the maximum number of revisions of each product to remain in the cache after the purge. By default, the last 3 revisions are kept, and the older revisions are deleted.

•In the Unused files unloading period (minutes) field, specify the time interval in minutes for unloading unused files from the memory. The default value is 10 minutes.

9.A window with the message that Dr.Web Proxy Server is ready for installation will open.

If you want to change other installation parameters, particularly the Dr.Web Proxy Server installation folder and the path for storing files used by Dr.Web Proxy Server, click Additional parameters.

11.After the installation, Dr.Web Proxy Server connects to the first Dr.Web Server specified in step 6 to receive the complete configuration file. If the settings on Dr.Web Server are not specified, the configuration file will not be downloaded. The configuration specified by the installer will be used until the connected Dr.Web Server is configured.

5.If necessary, you can use the configuration files from the previous Dr.Web Proxy Server installation:

•To use the backup from a different directory, specify the path to the backup manually.

•You can also install Dr.Web Proxy Server with the default settings without using the backup configuration from the previous version. To do this, press 0.

During the software installation in FreeBSD OS, an rc script /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dwcp_proxy is created. Use the commands:

•/usr/local/etc/rc.d/dwcp_proxy start—to start Dr.Web Proxy Server manually.

During the installation in Linux OS, an init script /etc/init.d/dwcp_proxy is created to start and stop Dr.Web Proxy Server.