8.1.3. Setting Alerts

To set the mode of sending alerts about the events connected with the operation of the Dr.Web ESS anti-virus:

1.Select the Administration item in the main menu and click Dr.Web Enterprise Server Configuration in the control menu.

2.Go to the Alerts tab and select the necessary mode of alerts in the Alert sender drop-down list:

None – do not send messages (default mode),

eMail – send by e-mail,

Windows network message – send through Windows Messenger (for Servers under Windows OS only).

E-Mail Notifications

To send notifications by e-mail, specify:

From – address of message sender.

To – address or addresses of message receivers. To add a new receiver, click .

SMTP server, Port – address and port of the SMTP server, to send e-mails.

User, Password (Enter password again) – if necessary, set a user name and a password for authorization on the SMTP server.

Set the following flags, is necessary:

Debug mode get detailed log of the SMTP-session.

Use TLS/SSL encoding – use TLS/SSL encoding to encrypt traffic when sending e-mail notifications.

Allow plain text authorization – use plain text authentication on mail server.

Allow CRAM-MD5 authorization – use CRAM-MD5 authentication on mail server.

In the Allowed messages section, set flags against the events on which the notifications should be sent.

Windows Network Message

 

Windows network message system functions only under Windows OS with Windows Messenger (Net Send) service support.

Windows Vista OS and later do not support Windows Messenger service.

 

For messages in a Windows OS network, specify the list of names of computers to receive messages.

In the Allowed messages section, set flags against the events on which notifications should be sent.

To add a new field, click the button and enter the computer name; to delete a field, click .

Message Templates

The text of messages is determined by message templates. Message templates are stored in the var/templates subfolder of the Server installation folder. If necessary, you can edit the template to change the text of a message.

When a message is being generated, the program replaces the variables in the template (written in braces) with a certain text, which depends upon the current parameters of the anti-virus network components. Available variables are listed in Appendix D. The Parameters of the Notification Templates.

It is strongly recommended to use the Dr.Web Control Center templates editor for editing the templates. To do this:

1.Select the Administration item in the main menu and click Edit templates in the control menu.

2.A window for editing templates will be opened. To edit any template, select it in the list in the left part of the window.

In the Subject entry field you can edit the subject of the message.

In the Headers entry field additional headers of the e-mail message are specified.

In the Body entry field the text of the message can be edited.

To add variables, use drop-down lists in the message header.

3.To save edited template, click Save.

 

If you use an external editor for editing templates remember that the text of the templates requires UTF-8 encoding. We do not recommend you to use Notepad or other editors which insert a byte order mark (BOM) to indicate that the text is encoded in UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32.