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Sending Alert Messages
When you've chosen a destination for your alert messages, click OK
to close the dialog box.
• Enable Centralized alerting. Click this button to have Dr
Solomon's Anti-Virus components send alert messages to a
Centralized Alerting directory somewhere on your network.
Choosing this option prevents you from sending alert events to an
Alert Manager server.
To choose a destination directory, click Configure to open the
Central Alerting Configuration dialog box.
Figure 5-3. Central Alerting Configuration dialog box
Next, enter the path to the Centralized Alerting directory you want
to use, or click Browse to locate the directory on your network.
When you've chosen a destination, click OK to close the dialog box.
You can designate any directory on your network as a destination
for Centralized Alerting messages, but the directory must contain a
copy of the file CENTALRT.TXT in order for an Alert Manager
server to relay the alert messages you send there.
If you enable Centralized Alerting, Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus sends
alert messages as text files with the extension .ALR to the target
directory.
You can then point a designated Alert Manager server to the
directory, if it contains the CENTALRT.TXT file, so that it checks
periodically for .ALR files. If it finds one, it extracts the contents of
the alert message from the file, distributes the message via one of its
pre-configured notification methods, then deletes the .ALR file. It
then steps up the frequency with which it checks the Centralized
Alerting directory to capture any other alert messages that arrive.
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