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Deployment is the process of strategically distributing ScanMail servers to provide optimal antivirus and content security protection for your Domino environment. Careful planning and assessment are required to deploy applications like ScanMail to a homogenous or heterogeneous environment.
Trend Micro recommends that you consider the following before deploying ScanMail to your network:
  • Select a Domino server in your organization that will serve as the central ScanMail server.
  • Install ScanMail on the central server and enable replication of ScanMail databases.
  • Create replicas of newly installed smconf.nsf and smvlog.nsf databases for other Domino servers.
  • To avoid replication conflicts, permit only the Domino administrator in charge of ScanMail policies to modify the Configuration database on each Domino server.
  • Initiate push replication from the ScanMail Log database replicas to the master smvlog.nsf to centralize logging of virus and other malware incidents across the network.
  • Decide whether to enable pull replication of the master Update database to replicas on other Domino servers so that only the central Domino server needs to connect to Trend Micro ActiveUpdate to download the latest component updates, and peripheral servers can select Replicated database as the update source (see Setting the Update Source).