Sending An Alert As A Network Message - McAfee MANAGEMENT EDITION 2.5 Administrator's Manual

Using the Alert Manager

Sending an alert as a network message

Alert Manager can send the alert messages that your anti-virus software
generates to other computers or users on your network using a standard
Windows NT network message. The alert message appears on the destination
computer's screen and requires the recipient to acknowledge it.
To send alerts via network messages, the machine running Alert Manager
must have the Alerter and Messenger Windows NT services running. The
destination computers running Windows NT must have the Messenger
service running to receive alert messages. Those running Windows 95 or
Windows 3.1x must also be running the WinPopup utility to receive network
messages. WinPopup comes with some Windows versions. See your
Windows documentation for details.
Follow these steps to send an alert as a network message:
1. Open the Alert Manager Properties dialog box.
2. Click the Network Message tab. The Network Message page appears
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(Figure 6-5). The Recipient list shows all of the computers you have
chosen to receive network messages. If you have not yet chosen any
destination computers, this list is blank.
Figure 6-5. Alert Manager Properties dialog box
(Network Message page)