[ipac] Antivirus software on HIP server

[David Pattern]

Hi

It's possible to configure McAfee to ignore specific directories either
on a read or a write operation, so you might want to add some of the HIP
directories to the exclusion list.

For example, I've told McAfee to ignore all read requests in the
"appserver" directory (and subdirectories) and that stops a lot of the
CPU usage which occurs whenever users request pages from HIP.

regards
Dave


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipac-bounces at lists.tblc.org 
> [mailto:ipac-bounces at lists.tblc.org] On Behalf Of Eileen R. Kontrovitz
> Sent: 07 August 2006 20:07
> To: Dynix's Horizon Information Portal,formerly iPac (discussion)
> Subject: RE: [ipac] Antivirus software on HIP server
> 
> 
> Well, funny you should ask. We have McAfee asap loaded on all 
> PCs and most
> of our servers. Since the HIP server is in the DMZ we felt we 
> should put it
> there as well. Of all of our PCs and servers the HIP one is 
> the only one
> that periodically has "fits" and McAfee eats up all of the 
> resources. In
> other words the process takes up 99 percent of the resources 
> and HIP cannot
> run. No other server has this problem so I'm kind of convinced it has
> something to do with how HIP runs. I can usually stop the 
> McAfee process but
> then something else grabs up 99% of the resources and I have 
> to wait for
> that to relinquish them, and strangely it usually does. Last 
> week I just
> uninstalled McAfee because I couldn't shake it loose. It is 
> really getting
> to be a problem but I'm sure if I logged it with SD they'd 
> just tell me not
> to put virus software on the server. I hope you have better luck with
> Symantec.
> 
> Eileen
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>                         Eileen R. Kontrovitz, M.L.S
> 		                 Head Of Automation
> 
> Ouachita Parish Public Library			Email: 
> eileenk at oplib.org
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> 
>                   It's a thankless job, but I've got a lot of 
> Karma to burn
> off!
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipac-bounces at lists.tblc.org 
> [mailto:ipac-bounces at lists.tblc.org]On
> Behalf Of Jon Enge - 
> VLC
> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 1:08 PM
> To: ipac at lists.tblc.org
> Subject: [ipac] Antivirus software on HIP server
> 
> Does anyone have any words of wisdom or warning to offer regarding
> Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition 10.1 (or antivirus software in
> general) on a HIP 3.06a server running Windows Server 2003?
> 
> Any directories or file types to exclude from auto-protect scanning?
> 
> Any troubles with full system scans scheduled during off-peak hours?
> 
> Performance problems?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -
> ============================
> Jon Enge
> j.enge at vlc.lib.mi.us
> Valley Library Consortium
> Saginaw, Michigan
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