McAfee Security for Microsoft Exchange 8.6.0

Configuring alert message settings

Configure settings in a policy to notify the end user with an alert message, when a detection occurs.

Task
1 From Policy Manager, select a submenu item that has the scanner.
The policy page for the submenu item appears.
2 Click Master policy or any subpolicy you want to configure, then click List All Scanners tab.
3 Click Alert Settings.
4 Select Enable to activate the alert message settings for the selected submenu item.
If you are configuring settings for a subpolicy, select Use configuration from parent policy to inherit settings from the parent policy.
If you add a new alert message setting to the policy, you can specify a time slot when to enable, using What time would you like this to apply drop-down list.
5 In Options, select the default alert settings available or select <create new set of options> to define your alert settings.
For step-by-step instructions on how to create a new alert, see the Create a new alert section.
6 Click Edit to modify an existing alert.
The Alert Settings page appears.
7 Select HTML or Plain text as the Alert format.
8 From the Character encoding drop-down menu, select a required character set.
9 In Alert filename, specify the file name for this alert, including the appropriate HTML (.htm) or plain text (.txt) file extension.
10 Select or deselect Enable alert headers to enable the use of an alert header.
11 In the Alert header text entry box, type the header for the alert.
12 From Show, select HTML content (WYSIWYG) or HTML content (source) depending on whether the HTML text should be shown as compiled code or source code in the Alert header.
The Show option is only available if you have selected HTML as the alert message format.
13 Select Enable alert footers to enable the use of an alert footer as needed.
14 In the Alert footer text entry box, type the footer for the alert.
15 From Show, select HTML content (WYSIWYG) or HTML content (source) depending on whether the HTML text should be shown as compiled code or source code in the Alert footer.
The Show option is only available if you have selected HTML as the alert message format.
16 Click Save to return to the policy page.
17 Click Apply to configure these settings to a policy.