User manual KASPERSKY ANTI-SPAM 3.0

[. . . ] KASPERSKY LAB Kaspersky® Anti-Spam 3. 0 ADMINISTRATOR'S GUIDE KASPERSKY® ANTI-SPAM 3. 0 Administrator's Guide © Kaspersky Lab http://www. kaspersky. com Revision date: May 2007 Contents CHAPTER 1. KASPERSKY ANTI-SPAM 3. 0. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . What's new in version 3. 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Licensing policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Monitoring system messages and reports In addition to the monitoring tools available within the Control Center, Kaspersky Anti-Spam also includes the sfmonitoring script that provides for constant monitoring of the anti-spam engine status. The start of that script is performed automatically using the cron service. After launch, sfmonitoring checks the filtration server status and sends appropriate notifications to the administrator whenever it detects any problems. The monitoring script sends to the administrator messages of two types: · Messages about new detected errors ­ a message about detection of a problem in the operation of the filtration server including a description of the situation that has occurred. If Managing the spam filtration server 73 the problem is not resolved, it will also be included into the report on known issues sent once a day. · Daily reports of known problems ­ a list of all errors and warnings known at the moment when the report was sent. The product includes into the report both new errors and known issues, which have not been resolved before report generation. The report will be sent once a day at midnight (in accordance with the server clock settings). In order to force report delivery, run the following command as root: # su ­m mailflt3 -c '/usr/local/ap-ailfilter3/control/ bin/sfmonitoring ­m' To output the report to server's console: # su ­m mailflt3 -c '/usr/local/ap-ailfilter3/control/ bin/sfmonitoring ­p' If Kaspersky Anti-Spam is installed on a server running RedHat, use the following command to start the sfmonitoring, utility: # su ­ ­m mailflt3 -c '/usr/local/ap-mailfilter3/ \ control/bin/sfmonitoring -<parameters>' The messages generated by the monitoring system will be sent to the address specified on the Settings Maintenance Control Center page (see section 4. 6 on page 63). 4. 9. Kaspersky Anti-Spam statistics In order to perform quantitative analysis of product operation results, the Control Center includes a module that collects statistical data about processed messages and displays the obtained information within the interface of the Control Center. Statistical data are collected and processed by special scripts started by the cron service (please refer to Appendix A. 6 on page 115 for details about the scripts). Processed results will be displayed as diagrams on the pages of the Statistics section (see Fig. The Statistics page Each of the pages in the Statistics section contains statistical information for a specific period of time. Links to available pages are located in the Period menu in the right part of the Statistics window: · · · · Last Day ­ statistics of processed messages for the last 24 hours. Last Month ­ statistics of processed messages for the last 30 days. Last Year ­ statistics of processed messages for the last 365 days. The upper part of the page contains a table with a summary of the number and size of processed messages of various types. Below the table the product displays a graph demonstrating the distribution of volume between detected messages of various types (for the selected period), and a pie chart that illustrates the shares (in percents) of the volume made up by various message types. Managing the spam filtration server 75 On the circular graph the volume of email messages, that have received a similar status as a result of spam recognition, is represented by a segment of a certain color. For the purpose of visualization the segments, which size is insignificant comparing to another segments, are combined in a single segment Other. The Messages and Bytes links in the lower left corner allow you to select the measurement units used for output of statistics for the processed e-mail traffic, i. e. The Export data CSV | Html links in the lower right corner are used to export the statistical data in CSV (comma-separated values) format or as a HTML table. CHAPTER 5. UNISTALLING KASPERSKY ANTI-SPAM To uninstall Kaspersky Anti-Spam, you must be a privileged (root) user. If you are currently logged under a user account with lesser privileges, log on as root. [. . . ] It shall be at the absolute discretion of Kaspersky Lab whether or not you have satisfied this condition for the provision of Support Services. (ii) Support Services will terminate unless renewed annually by payment of the then-current annual support charge and by successful completion of the Support Services Subscription Form again. (iii) By completion of the Support Services Subscription Form you consent to the terms of the Kaspersky Lab Privacy Policy, which is deposited on ww. kaspersky. com/privacy, and you explicitly consent to the transfer of data to other countries outside your own as set out in the Privacy Policy. (iv) "Support Services" means: (a) Daily updates of the anti-virus database; (b) Free software updates, including version upgrades; (c) Extended technical support via e-mail and phone hotline provided by Vendor and/or Reseller; (d) Virus detection and disinfection updates 24 hours per day. [. . . ]