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vscan options mandatory_scan off

This option will allow CIFS clients to access requested files without
scanning if there are no scanners available. I'm not sure of all them
implications of having it on though. You may want to do nightly full scans
from the scanning host if you have the mandatory scan off, just in case
there was an intermittent failure during the day and some files got
infected.

Brian Moyers
Sr. Software Engineer, Infrastructure
BEA Systems
(415) 402-7416
bmoyers@bea.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com
> [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]On Behalf Of Steve Evans
> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 8:36 AM
> To: toasters@mathworks.com
> Subject: TrendMicro Antivirus
>
>
> We have TrendMicro Server Protect for NetApp. It's okay, but I'm
> worried about the reliablity. Is there a way to have a filer turn of
> virus scanning if there are no longer any registered Anti-Virus
> scanners? We had the TrendMicro service fail during a dat update and
> nobody was able to read or write from the Filer until I got in that
> morning and realized what was going on.
>
> Steve Evans
> (619) 594-0653
>

there is a way. "vscan options mandatory _scan {on|off}" - it does just you would expect it to do.

before i found this, i wrote a series of scripts (runs on a Sun) to monitor the vscan process and send warnings, etc when things happened, including turning vscan off when both scanners
de-registered.

-paul

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> We have TrendMicro Server Protect for NetApp. It's okay, but I'm
> worried about the reliablity. Is there a way to have a filer turn of
> virus scanning if there are no longer any registered Anti-Virus
> scanners? We had the TrendMicro service fail during a dat update and
> nobody was able to read or write from the Filer until I got in that
> morning and realized what was going on.
>
> Steve Evans
> (619) 594-0653

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Try changing the mandatory_scan option to off. From the command line enter
"vscan options mandatory_scan off" .

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Evans [mailto:sevans@foundation.sdsu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 11:36 AM
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: TrendMicro Antivirus


We have TrendMicro Server Protect for NetApp. It's okay, but I'm
worried about the reliablity. Is there a way to have a filer turn of
virus scanning if there are no longer any registered Anti-Virus
scanners? We had the TrendMicro service fail during a dat update and
nobody was able to read or write from the Filer until I got in that
morning and realized what was going on.

Steve Evans
(619) 594-0653


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Okay everybody. I figure it out. Thanks a lot.

Steve Evans
(619) 594-0653

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Moyers [mailto:bmoyers@bea.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 9:26 AM
To: Steve Evans; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: TrendMicro Antivirus


vscan options mandatory_scan off

This option will allow CIFS clients to access requested files without
scanning if there are no scanners available. I'm not sure of all them
implications of having it on though. You may want to do nightly full
scans from the scanning host if you have the mandatory scan off, just in
case there was an intermittent failure during the day and some files got
infected.

Brian Moyers
Sr. Software Engineer, Infrastructure
BEA Systems
(415) 402-7416
bmoyers@bea.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com
> [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]On Behalf Of Steve Evans
> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 8:36 AM
> To: toasters@mathworks.com
> Subject: TrendMicro Antivirus
>
>
> We have TrendMicro Server Protect for NetApp. It's okay, but I'm
> worried about the reliablity. Is there a way to have a filer turn of
> virus scanning if there are no longer any registered Anti-Virus
> scanners? We had the TrendMicro service fail during a dat update and
> nobody was able to read or write from the Filer until I got in that
> morning and realized what was going on.
>
> Steve Evans
> (619) 594-0653
>