Table 6-1 describes the information that is displayed in the status pane.
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Symantec Protection for SharePoint Servers provides Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) logging capabilities. When SMTP logging is configured, an email notification is sent to a specified recipient for chosen events. You can Table 6-1 Status pane information
Information Description Symantec Scan
Engines Status
Displays the current status of all registered Symantec Scan Engines.
The scan overview includes the following information:
■ Total number of registered Symantec Scan Engines (online, offline and disabled)
■ Total number of disabled Symantec Scan Engines You can manually disable a registered Symantec Scan Engine. The Symantec Scan Engine is dropped out of rotation but you can enable it at any point of time.
See“To edit a Symantec Scan Engine registration” on page 89.
■ Total number of active online Symantec Scan Engines
■ Total number of offline Symantec Scan Engines Connections Gives a graphic overview of the maximum and currently used
scanning threads for all active online Symantec Scan Engines.
The vertical bar displays the following information:
■ Maximum number of threads available for scanning The number that appears at the end of the vertical bar specifies the total number of available threads for all active online scan engines.
■ Number of threads currently available for scanning The green portion of the vertical bar displays the number of threads currently available out of the total number of scanning threads.
■ Number of threads currently being used for scanning The red section of the vertical bar displays how many available threads are currently being used for an ongoing scan.
Note: If you are running more than one Symantec Scan Engine, these values are the cumulative total.
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select the logging level for events related to system, scan process, and Symantec Scan Engine.
See“About monitoring scanning activity” on page 126.
You can also select the email notification level so that Symantec Protection for SharePoint Servers sends an email notification only for the events whose level you specify. You can provide separate destination information for each type of message. Default message text is included, but you can customize individual messages.
See“Customizing SMTP messages” on page 117.
Note: The SMTP logging that you configure for the Symantec Protection for SharePoint Servers is separate from the SMTP logging that is available through the Symantec Scan Engine console. You can activate either or both of these features to meet the needs of your organization.
For more information, see the Symantec Scan Engine Implementation Guide.
Symantec Protection for SharePoint Servers logs events from the following event sources:
■ Scan Process
■ Symantec Scan Engines
■ System
You can set the logging level to None, Error, Warning, Information, or Verbose for each event source.
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Table 6-2 lists the types of events for which email notification messages are generated.
Table 6-2 Types of events for SMTP logging Event source Logging level Description
Scan Process Verbose Logs verbose information related to virus scanning (for example, a scan has started or ended). This level also includes all of the events that are logged at the Information, Warning, and Error levels.
Information Logs information that is related to virus scanning (for example, a file was scanned and no virus was found, scan statistics information). This level also includes all of the events that are logged at the Warning and Error levels.
Warning Logs warnings that are related to virus scanning (for example, a virus was found and the file was repaired or was unable to be repaired, unscannable content, encrypted content, and files containing security risks).
This level also includes all of the events that are logged at the Error level.
Error Logs errors that are related to virus scanning (for example, an error occurred while a file was being scanned).
None Does not log any event.
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Symantec Scan Engine Verbose Logs verbose information that is related to the Symantec Scan Engine (for example, the scan engine check starts, and the scan engine check ends). This level also includes all of the events that are logged at the Information, Warning, and Error levels.
Information Logs information that is related to the Symantec Scan Engine (for example, the scan engine check is successful). This level also includes all of the events that are logged at the Warning and Error levels.
Warning Logs warnings that are related to the Symantec Scan Engine (for example, the scan engine is offline, the virus definitions are too old, or the scan engine check failed).
This level also includes all of the events that are logged at the Error level.
Error Logs errors that are related to the Symantec Scan Engine (for example, a scan engine handling error).
None No events are logged.
Table 6-2 Types of events for SMTP logging Event source Logging level Description
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