User Guide

Using Dr Solomon’sAnti-VirusUtilities
306 Dr Solomon’sAnti-Virus
Using the Alert Manager Client Configuration utility
All Dr Solomon’s anti-virus software includes wide range of methods to alert
you when it has detected a virus or other malicious software. These methods
include:
• graphical and full-screen warnings that appear on your local computer,
often with response options
• system beeps and custom messages that you can compose
• e-mail messages sent asreplies tothose whosendyou infected items,or as
warnings to others that you've received an infected item
• logfilesthatrecordDrSolomon’sAnti-Viruscomponentactions,including
virus detection and response events
• summary and real-time statistical displays that update detection and
response events
Many of these methods alert you only if you are at your computer and
watching as a scan operation runs. If you manage a network of workstations
that you want to secure, however, you often need a method that will tell you
aboutaninfectionifyouareatanyotherworkstationonyournetwork,oreven
ifyouarenot connectedtothenetworkatall.Youalsoneedamethodtocollect
and manage alert messages from all over the network in a central repository
so that you can respond whenever any workstation detects an infected file.
Dr Solomon’s Software provides Alert Manager server software for just such
a need. The software allows you to centralize alert message collection and
processing, assign priority designations and custom messages to those
messages, and designate any of up to 11 different methods to distribute them
to you or to others. With the v8.5 anti-virus product series, the Alert Manager
server now comes as an independent package bundled with Dr Solomon’s
NetShield anti-virus software. You can install this new Alert Manager server
together with NetShield software, or by itself on a computer that you want to
use as an alert collection point.
You can install multiple Alert Manager servers, one to a domain, perhaps, or
one on each of the machines in a cluster server. If you do so, you can also
forward alert messages among Alert Manager servers and, thereby, to other
computersonyournetworkortocentralizednotificationsystems.Thisfeature
can allow MIS departments to keep close track of virus statistics and problem
areas.
To learn how to install and configure the Alert Manager utility, see the
NetShield Administrator's Guide.