Viewing A Daily Or Weekly Status Report - Symantec 20032623 - Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition Implementation Manual

Task
Locate which client
computers need
protection
Protect your client
computers
Review events in the
logs
Configure notifications
to alert you when
security events occur
Create custom quick
reports and scheduled
reports for ongoing
monitoring

Viewing a daily or weekly status report

Tasks for monitoring endpoint protection (continued)
Table 19-1
Description
You can perform the following tasks to view or find which computers need additional
protection:
View the number of computers with Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business
Edition disabled.
See Viewing system protection"
View the number of computers with out-of-date virus and spyware definitions.
See Viewing system protection"
Find the computers that have not been scanned recently.
See Finding unscanned computers"
View attack targets and sources.
See Viewing attack targets and sources"
You can run commands from the console to protect the client computers.
See Running commands on the client computer from the logs"
For example, you can eliminate security risks on client computers.
See Checking the scan action and rescanning the identified computers"
Events are the informative, notable, and critical activities that concern your Symantec
Endpoint Protection Manager and client computers. The information in the event logs
supplements the information is that is contained in the reports.
See About logs" on page 277.
See Viewing logs" on page 275.
You can create and configure notifications to be triggered when certain security-related
events occur. For example, you can set a notification to occur when an intrusion attempt
occurs on a client computer.
See Setting up administrator notifications"
You can create and generate customized quick reports and you can schedule custom reports
to run regularly with the information that you want to see.
See Running and customizing quick reports"
See Creating scheduled reports"
See Saving and deleting custom reports"
See Configuring reporting preferences"
The Daily Status Report provides the following information:
Monitoring protection with reports and logs
Monitoring endpoint protection
on page 264.
on page 264.
on page 265.
on page 267.
on page 291.
on page 270.
on page 273.
on page 272.
on page 268.
on page 280.
on page 135.
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