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Configure settings on the appliance

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Route test network traffic through the appliance

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Confirm test network traffic is being scanned

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Configure policies and reports

Configure your network to route test traffic through your appliance

Configure your network to route production traffic through your appliance

Test Network

Production Network

To confirm your appliance is detecting viruses, either send 
email messages containing the EICAR test string or with 
EICAR test files attached, or download an EICAR test file from 

http://www.eicar.org

, making sure the email or the 

downloaded file passes through your appliance. 
To confirm your appliance is detecting spam messages, send 
email messages containing the GTUBE spam test string 
(available from 

http://spamassassin.apache.org/gtube/

through your appliance. 
View the 

Dashboard

 to confirm test viruses and spam messages 

are detected.

For more information on configuring policies and reports, 
see the Online Help within the product.
In addition, visit the McAfee Service Portal:

https://mysupport.mcafee.com/eservice_enu/default.htm

Select 

Product Documentation

, then select 

Email and 

Web Security Appliance Hardware

. Select your 

appliance model to view the documents.

Connect using default username = 

scmadmin

 and default password = 

scmchangeme

.

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