Early in the Trend Micro Apex Central deployment,
determine exactly how many people you want to grant access to your Trend Micro Apex Central server. The number of
users depends on how centralized you want your management to be.
The guiding principle being: the degree of centralization is inversely
proportional to the number of users.
Follow one of these administration models:
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Centralized management: This model gives Trend Micro Apex Central access to as few people as possible. A highly centralized network would have only one administrator, who then manages all the antivirus and content security servers on the network.Centralized management offers the tightest control over your network antivirus and content security policy. However, as network complexity increases, the administrative burden may become too much for one administrator.
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Decentralized management: This is appropriate for large networks where system administrators have clearly defined and established areas of responsibility. For example, the mail server administrator may also be responsible for email protection; regional offices may be independently responsible for their local areas.A main Trend Micro Apex Central administrator would still be necessary, but he or she shares the responsibility for overseeing the network with other product or regional administrators.Grant Trend Micro Apex Central access to each administrator, but limit access rights to view and/or configure segments of the Trend Micro Apex Central network that are under their responsibility.
With one of these administration models initialized, you can
then configure the Product Directory and necessary user accounts
to manage your Trend Micro Apex Central network.