Scheduled Scan Notifications

The following explains the steps required to configure scheduled scan notifications:

To configure scheduled scan notifications:
  1. On the left menu, click Scheduled Scan. The Scheduled Scan screen appears.

  2. Click Add, to add a new task, or click and existing task from the Task Name column. The Scheduled Scan > Add or, Edit Scan Task screen appears.

  3. Under Select the scan type, click the Virus scan or File Blocking link.

  4. Click the Notification tab, and select Notify administrator to enable manual virus scan notifications.

  5. Under People to notify, click Show details and configure the following:

  6. To—the global email address(es) appear in this field. You can enter additional email addresses, separated by a semicolon, to create unique notifications.

  7. Subject—type a subject that will appear in the subject line of the email (for example: Virus Scan Notification).

  8. Message—you can create a unique message using variables like: [Server Name], [Virus Name], [Date], [Time], [File Name], [File Location], and [Action].

  9. The available variables appear in the left window, and the message body in the right window.

  1. Under Settings, choose the delivery options for this notification according to the following:

  2. Send consolidated notifications every [xx] [hours or days]—select this option to send a notification according to the number of hours or days you type in the variable field.

  3. Send consolidate notifications every [xx] occurrences—select this option to send a notification after a certain number of occurrences as you stipulate in the variable field.

  4. Send individual notifications—select this option to send a notification each time an event occurs.

  1. Under Advanced Notification (SNMP), select SNMP to enable this option.

  2. Click Show details to expand the options, and configure according to the following:

  3. IP Address

  4. Community

  5. Message—create a message as stated in Step 5 of this procedure.

  1. Select Write to Windows event log to write each notification to the Windows event log.

  2. Click Save.