"Chris Cowles" <spam_magnet@xxxxxx-me-bellsouth.net> wrote:
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>With Onecare set up as a circle, one computer being set up as hub, the
>hub gets a notice if another's AV or firewall is off. I was recently
>reinstalling some software on a non-hub client and turned it off, so
>got the warning.
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>I turned AV on remotely with a click of a button. I clicked the button
>for firewall and it turned on for the remote computer, but the hub
>still shows it 'in progress'. It never changes to green. Does anyone
>have a clue why that's happening? I have NetNanny installed on the
>non-hub computers but get the same result with it turned off.
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>Where does the hub get the status of other computers in the circle?
>From a Live server? Or from the other PCs directly? I can't see how
>the latter scenario would work if remote computers are mobile. It's
>more realistic for the clients to each report to a server, and for the
>hub to report the status gotten from it.
>
>Thanks in advance.
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The status is typically reported both to the server and directly to the PC on
the local LAN. However, as you've noticed, there are times when the status does
not get updated locally and it relies on that round trip to the server, which
can take an hour or more - assuming both PCs are communicating with the server
regularly.
-steve
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