Setting up secondary scanning clients

If you configured more than one virus-scanning client configured to scan files on a storage system, you can designate those additional clients as standby clients that do not actively scan for viruses unless the primary virus-scanning client goes down.

Steps

1. List the virus-scanning clients configured to scan on this system. In the system console enter the following command:vscan scanners

   Example

   >vscan scanners
   Virus scanners(IP and Name)      P/S ...
   ----------------------------------------
   132.132.59.12   \\XLAB-WTS      Pri ....

2. Specify, by IP address, the PC clients you want to serve as standby virus scanners by entering the following command:vscan scanners secondary_scanners scanner_ip[, scanner_ip...]

   scanner_ip can be either of the following:

   • IP addresses of one or more of the configured virus-scanning clients displayed in Step 1
   • IP addresses of PCs not yet configured as a virus-scanning client
   Note: If the IP address you entered belongs to a PC not yet configured as a virus-scanning client for this storage system, you must configure it for this setting to take effect.

   Example

   vscan scanners secondary_scanners 132.132.59.14

3. Use the vscan scanners command to confirm your configuration.

   Example

   >vscan scanners
   Virus scanners(IP and Name)     P/S ...
   ----------------------------------------
   132.132.59.14   \\BORIS-PC      Sec ... 
   132.132.59.12   \\XLAB-WTS      Pri ....
   
   Secondary scanners IP address list
   132.132.59.14,10.20.30.40

   Note: In this example, the address 10.20.30.40 belongs to a PC that is enabled as a standby scanner but is not turned on; therefore it is not listed in the Virus scanners (IP and Name) table, but it is listed in the Secondary scanners IP address list.