1.1. Installation

Before starting the installation please make sure your test computer or virtual machine meets the minimum hardware and software requirements.

Installing Metadefender Central Management on Ubuntu or Debian computers

  1. Download mdcentralmgmt package from the OPSWAT Portal. Make sure that you download the applicable package for your distribution.

  2. Upload the installation package to your test computers

  3. Install the product with sudo dpkg -i <filename>, where filename is the package you downloaded from our portal

  4. If dpkg shows error messages about missing dependencies you should execute sudo apt-get install -f

  5. Open a web browser and point to http://<server name or IP>:8018

  6. Enter default login credentials, username: admin, password: admin

Installing Metadefender Central Management on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS computers

  1. Download mdcentralmgmt package from the OPSWAT Portal. Make sure that you download the applicable package for your distribution.

  2. Upload the installation package to your test computers

  3. Install the product with sudo yum install <filename>, where filename is the package you downloaded from our portal

  4. Open a web browser and point to http://<server name or IP>:8018

  5. Enter default login credentials, username: admin, password: admin

Installing Metadefender Central Management on Windows computers

  1. Download mdcentralmgmt package from the OPSWAT Portal. Make sure that you download the applicable package for your distribution.

  2. Upload the installation package to your test computers

  3. Install the product with running the downloaded <filename>.msi, where filename is the package you downloaded from our portal

  4. Open a web browser and point to http://<server name or IP>:8018

  5. Enter default login credentials, username: admin, password: admin

To continue the basic setup, follow the license activation instructions on Step 2. License activation

For more information on Installation procedures see Installing Metadefender Central Management