Upgrading Blacklists And Whitelists - McAfee GSSCDE-AA-DA - GroupShield Security Suite User Manual

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Upgrading Blacklists and Whitelists

The blacklist and whitelist command line upgrade tool can be used to upgrade the user
blacklists and whitelists existing in GroupShield version 6.0.x to 7.0. The command line
parameters are not case sensitive and you can also use UNC paths when using the
upgrade tool.
1 Using an administrative account, log on to the computer containing GroupShield for
Exchange version 6.0.x user blacklists and whitelists.
2 Create a temporary directory on your local drive.
3 Download the
directory.
4 From the command prompt execute the command shown below:
bwl -m <SrcPath> <DestPath> [-d] [value]
Parameters:
-m: to upgrade the user blacklists and whitelists.
<SrcPath>: to specify the directory path to the existing GroupShield 6.x user
blacklists and whitelists.
<DesPath>: to specify the directory path to where the generated BWLIST.XML file
is to be stored. The output XML file generated can be imported into the McAfee
Quarantine Manager's database using its
-d: to enable debugging. The debug log file DEBUG.TXT is generated in the current
directory.
[value]: "1" enables debugging, any other value passed to this parameter disables
debugging and is FALSE. The default value is set as FALSE.
Apply
, to save the changes.
Once you have completed the above setup, GroupShield starts to quarantine detected
items on McAfee Quarantine Manager Server; however it also logs them in the local
database.
You must install McAfee Quarantine Manager version 4.1 Patch1 and HotFix 285970 on
the McAfee Quarantine Manager Server. Installing this Patch and HotFix will enable you
to release Quarantined items from the server.
You cannot release quarantined items that are detected as viruses.
To disable quarantining on McAfee Quarantine Manager, go to
Detected Items
page, deselect
continue quarantining on the local database.
UserBWListUpgrade.ZIP
Post-Installation Tasks and Maintenance
Quarantining using McAfee Quarantine Manager 4.1
Enabled Apply
, then click
archive and extract the files to the temporary
Import Export
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