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Using the Alert Manager
The Management Edition program uses Network Associates’ Alert Manager
utility to notify you or others when a virus is detected on your servers. An
anti-virus software component, Alert Manager includes a wide variety of
notification options that you can use individually or in combinations.
If you have Alert Manager installed on other computers in your network, you
can also forward alert messages to other networked computers to consolidate
alert messages on a designated server.
Before you can configure your alert notification options, you must enable
centralized alerting. Your anti-virus software can then detect viruses and
inform the Management Edition program, via the Alert Manager
.
Enabling centralized alerting
Enabling centralized alerting is a two-part process: You must configure Alert
Properties for both the NetShield and VirusScan programs.
Enabling centralized alerting for the NetShield program
First, you will enable centralized alerting in the NetShield console, and then
create a shared directory for alerts.
Follow these steps to enable centralized alerting for the NetShield program for
Windows NT:
1. Install the NetShield program on a Windows NT server. For ease of use,
we recommend that this also be the Management Server; however, it isn’t
required to be, and can't be if you are using a Windows NT workstation
as the Management Edition server.
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IMPORTANT:
Remember that the NetShield program must be
installed and controlled via the Management Edition program for
alerting back to the Management Server to function correctly.
2. Start the NetShield console on the Windows NT server.
3. On the
Tools
menu, click
Alerts.
The Alert Properties dialog box appears, with the System Alerts page
showing.
