symantec endpoint firewall is not functioning correctly

If I have Symantec Management Client disabled, but SEP service itself is enabled, the GUI will not open and will prompt you to start the service (which, usually means it's corrupt in my experience dealing w/ a few).ĩ5% of our systems have both so I'm just looking at this smaller group, but not that small really. My understanding was SMC was what the GUI communicates with to operate the actual SEP service, in order to separate the security of the GUI that anyone can initiate from the higher level security the SEP service needs?

It also provides network threat protection and application and device control for the client.'' - Symantec Endpoint Protection service is dubbed ''Provides virus-scanning for Symantec Endpoint Protection'' Symantec Management Client service is dubbed in the service list as ''provides communication with the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager. ? I'm nearly positive these are the result of corruption and not done on purpose but I'm forwarding a report I created ground up by probing systems and need to dot my T's before. I'm doing reporting and finding a lot of machines that have Symantec Management Client, but not the Symantec Endpoint Protection service installed - maybe 5%-10% or so but it's a triple digit count of machines.Ĭonfiguration-wise, does anyone know what happened here? Is there any scenario where you would be able to configure SEP like this on purpose? Is it corruption that removed the one service, was it never there, IDK.

Symantec endpoint firewall is not functioning correctly