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7.0 User Guide Policy Manager
Scanners and filters
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6 In Alert selection, select an existing alert to use when a scanner control option is
triggered, else
Create a new alert.
If the alert text is not shown and you would like to preview it, click
View/Hide to
display the text. If the alert text is displayed, click
View/Hide to hide it.
7 In Actions, view/edit the actions that will be taken when the level of nesting, file size
or scan time, is exceeded. To change those actions, click
Edit.
Creating new set of options for scanner control settings
1 From
Policy Manager, select a submenu item. The policy page for the submenu item
appears.
2 Choose a desired policy.
3 Click
Scanner Control. The View Settings tab for scanner control appears.
4 From the
Options drop-down menu, choose create new set of options. The Scanner Control
page appears.
5 Specify an Instance name for the scanner control settings. This field is mandatory.
6 In Maximum nesting level, specify the level to which the scanner should scan, when an
attachment contains compressed files, and other compressed files within. We
recommend that you limit scanning to a depth of 100.
7 In
Maximum expanded file size (MB), specify the maximum number of megabytes a file
can be when expanded for scanning. We recommend a maximum size of 100
megabytes.
8 In
Maximum scan time (minutes), specify the maximum number of minutes that should
be spent scanning any file. We recommend a maximum of 10 minutes.
9 Click
Save, then Apply.
Editing primary and secondary scanner control actions
In
Scanner Control Actions, you can specify the actions taken when:
 The maximum nesting level is exceeded.
 The maximum file size is exceeded.
Note
For more information, refer to Creating a new alert on page 120.
Note
Fore more information, refer to Editing primary and secondary scanner control actions
on page 143.