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• View detection properties.
3 A dialog box appears and describes the affect of your attempt.
Configuring alerts and notifications
Being notified when a potential threat is detected is an important part of protecting your
environment. You can use the ePolicy Orchestrator console, or VirusScan Console, to configure
how you are notified when detections occur. Both consoles allow configuring alerting options,
filter alerts by severity to limit alert traffic, and configure local alerting options.
Configuring alerts
Configure the alerts and notification properties that appear when the various scanners detect
a threat.
Use the same process to configure alerts for these policies:
• Alert Policies
• Buffer Overflow Protection Policies
• On-Delivery Email Scan Policies
Configure the alert notification policies for all three policies using the following user interface
consoles.
Tasks
ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 or 4.6
ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0
VirusScan Console
Alert policy tab configuration
ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 or 4.6
Configure the Alert Policies with this user interface console.
Task
For option definitions, click ? in the interface.
1 Click Menu | Policy | Policy Catalog, then from the Product list select VirusScan
Enterprise 8.8.0. The Category list displays the policy categories for VirusScan Enterprise
8.8.0.
2 Edit an existing policy or create a new policy:
Edit an existing policy
a From the Category list, select the policy category.
b From the Actions column, click Edit Setting to open the policy configuration page.
Create a new policy
a Click Actions | New Policy to open New Policy dialog box.
b From the Category list, select an existing policy.
Part III - Response: Handling Threats
Configuring alerts and notifications
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