Planning for a Policy-based Antivirus and Content Security Protection

Automate redundant creation of antivirus and update settings, and other maintenance tasks

Easily configure all of the servers in an environment from a single server

Create group policies based on the ScanMail default policy.

In a large network with multiple servers that perform common roles, you can save considerable configuration time and maintenance when you base a policy on the default policy (see Understanding Policies, Rules, and Filters). You can easily and quickly create a common set of mail real-time and scheduled scanning protection settings once rather than repeatedly for each individual server.

Create group policies to assign settings applicable to all Domino servers in a specific geographical or administrative segment.

In a multi-server environment, defining server groups based on similar functions or characteristics ensures that ScanMail applies the appropriate policy to all servers in a group.

Create policies that have a common purpose. For example:

Decide which servers belong together, and define the set of protection, update, and notification methods that apply to them. For example, you can create and then apply a policy that protects a mail server to other servers that act as mail servers.

Create unique policies to assign settings to specific Domino servers.

A unique policy assigns a default configuration to individual users, user groups, or servers. For example, to set scheduled scanning that will run only on certain days of the week, create a policy with a scheduled scan rule and then assign it to individual or groups of database servers.