Managing the Settings

You can view and change current configuration parameters of the components included in Dr.Web for UNIX Mail Servers and listed on the main page. For that, open the Settings page. On this page, you can also switch Dr.Web for UNIX Mail Servers to a centralized protection mode or a standalone mode (for further information about these modes, refer to Operation Modes).

On the left side of the page, a menu is displayed, which contains the names of all Dr.Web for UNIX Mail Servers components that settings can be viewed and adjusted. To view and adjust the settings of a component, select its name in the menu by clicking it. The name of the component that settings you are currently viewing and editing is highlighted in this menu on the left.

•The Centralized protection item of the menu takes you to the page for managing the centralized protection mode.

•The General Settings item of the menu corresponds to the settings of Dr.Web ConfigD, which is responsible for the overall functioning of Dr.Web for UNIX Mail Servers.

If a component has additional, specific sections of settings apart from a section with its main settings (for example, such sections are available for the Dr.Web ClamD component, which emulates the interface of ClamAV® and uses these additional sections to store individual scanning parameters for clients that use a specific connection address), then an icon indicating that you can collapse or expand additional (dependent) sections is displayed on the menu to the left of the component name. If the icon looks like

, additional sections are hidden. If the icon looks like

, additional sections are displayed on the menu, one per line. To collapse or expand the list of additional sections for a component, click the collapse/expand icon next to the name of the required component.

•The additional sections of the component settings are displayed with indentation to the right. To view or edit parameters of an additional section, click its name.

•To add an additional subsection with settings for a component, if possible, click

. This icon is positioned to the right of the component name and appears when you point to the component name. Then specify a unique name (tag) for a new subsection and click OK. To close the window without creating a subsection, click Cancel.

•To remove a subsection, click

. This icon is positioned to the right of the subsection name (tag) and appears when you point to the component name. Then, confirm that you want to remove the subsection by clicking Yes or cancel by clicking No.

At the top of the settings page, you can see a menu that allows you to change a viewing mode. The following modes are available:

•All—show all component configuration parameters that can be viewed and adjusted in a table editor.

•Changed—show only those component configuration parameters that have values different from the default ones in the table editor.

•Ini Editor—show component configuration parameters that have values different from the default ones in an editor for parameters in the configuration file format (in parameter = value pairs).

You can also filter displayed parameters based on a search query. To filter out unnecessary parameters and display only those that description contains a given string, use a search box. The box is displayed on the right side of the viewing mode menu and is marked with

. To filter the parameter list, type any word in the search box. All parameters that do not have the typed word in their description will be hidden (the search is case-insensitive). To clear the search results and display the initial list, click

in the search box or erase the search word.

Parameters can be filtered out only when they are displayed in tabular form (in All mode or Changed mode).

When viewing parameters in tabular form (the All mode or the Changed mode), each table row contains a name and description of a parameter (on the left) and its current value (on the right). For Boolean parameters (those that have only two available values: “Yes” and “No”), a check box is displayed instead of a value (the selected check box means “Yes” and the cleared one means “No”).

When you view all parameters (and not only those that were changed), the modified (non-default) values are indicated on the list in bold.

The complete parameter list is split into groups (such as General, Advanced and so on). To collapse or expand a group, click its title. When a group is collapsed and its parameters are not displayed in the table, the following icon appears to the left of the group name:

. When a group is expanded and its parameters are displayed in the table, the following icon appears to the left of the group name:

To adjust a parameter, click its current value on the table (for a Boolean parameter—select or clear the corresponding check box). If the parameter has a set of predefined values, clicking the current value opens a drop-down list in which a required value can be set. If the parameter has a numerical value, clicking the current value opens an editing box directly in the table. Specify a required value and press ENTER. In all these cases the changed parameter value is immediately saved in the component settings.

If the parameter accepts a string value or a list of arbitrary values, a pop-up window will appear once you click the parameter current value to edit it. If the parameter accepts a list of values, they will be shown in a multi-line editing box (one value per line) as shown in the figure below. To edit the values of the list, you need to change, delete or add required lines in the editing box.

After editing a parameter value, click Save to save your changes and to close the window. To close the window without saving the changes, click Cancel or

in the upper right corner of the pop-up window.

When viewing parameters in Ini Editor mode, they are displayed in an editor for parameters in the configuration file format (in parameter = value pairs), where parameter is a parameter name that is set directly in the component settings section of the configuration file. In this mode, only those parameters are displayed that values differ from the default ones (that is, parameters that values are in bold in the All table). The figure below shows how parameters are displayed in pairs.

To make changes, edit the text according to the rules for editing the configuration file (this will modify only the section that contains the settings of the component selected on the left). If necessary, you can specify a new value for any parameter available for the component. In this case, the default value of this parameter changes to the value you enter in the editor. If you want to reset the parameter back to its default value, just erase the line containing this parameter in this editor. If you do so, then, once you save the changes, the parameter is reset to its default value.

Once you have finished editing, click Save to save the changes. To discard the changes, click Cancel.

If you click Save, the text displayed in the editor is validated: the program checks whether all parameters are existent and their set values are valid. In case of an error, a corresponding message is displayed.

For details on the configuration file, its structure and aspects of specifying parameter values, refer to the Appendix D. Dr.Web for UNIX Mail Servers Configuration File section.