Which Anti-Virus Software Do You Recommend to Installing on the Elliott ERP Server?

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Release Date: 6/20/17

Q - We are thinking of installing McAfee End Point on the Elliott ERP server. Do you have any opinion about this anti-virus software?

A - Generally speaking, we don't recommend installing anti-virus software on the Elliott database server. Anti-virus software accounts for many support incidents involving Elliott Business Software not running. If you don't use your Elliott database (PSQL) server as a terminal server (which we don't recommend for security reasons), then the drawbacks of anti-virus software outweigh the benefits when it comes to the database server.  There are actually many discussions on the Internet regarding why anti-virus software should not be installed on a database server.

On the other hand, we do recognize that anti-virus software is a necessary evil. It is necessary for regular desktops or any terminal servers.  Any desktop that accesses email or is used to browse the Internet should be protected with anti-virus software.  Unfortunately, there’s no way for us to tell which anti-virus software is more compatible than any other. Therefore, we can’t give a recommendation for one software vs. another.  In-house, we simply use Microsoft Windows Defender, which is free and comes with any Microsoft OS that is Windows 7 or higher.

If you do install anti-virus software on the database server, you should definitely do the following:
  • White list the pervasive directories:
  • PSQL 11 client will be installed in the following folders:
  • 32-bit client: C:\Program Files (x86)\Pervasive Software\PSQL\bin
  • 64-bit client: C:\Program Files\Pervasive Software\PSQL\bin
  • PSQL 12 client will be installed in the following folders:
  • 32-bit client: C:\Program Files (x86)\Actian\PSQL\bin
  • 64-bit client: C:\Program Files\Actian\PSQL\bin
  • White list the Elliott application executables and dlls in <ElliottRoot> and <ElliottRoot>\Bin folders.
  • White list he Elliott data directories in <ElliottRoot>\DATA...etc.
Apply the same principle to your desktop and other servers where the anti-virus software is installed. After installing it, you should monitor it for the first couple weeks for any performance issue or errors, as you might need to white list additional directories/files.


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