Reviewing The Forwarding Status File; Deleting Histories And Event Logs - Symantec 10551441 - AntiVirus Corporate Edition Administrator's Manual

Reviewing the forwarding status file

Deleting Histories and Event Logs

You can verify that a client log was forwarded and received by reviewing
Fwdstatus.log, the default status log.
To verify that a client log was forwarded and received
1 Open the following folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\Symantec\Symantec AntiVirus\7.5\Logs
2 Use a standard text editor, such as Notepad, to open Fwdstatus.log.
You can configure Symantec AntiVirus to automatically remove data from
Histories and Event Logs that is older than a specified date.
To set the delete frequency
1 In the Symantec System Center console, right-click a server, server group, or
client, and then click All Tasks > Symantec AntiVirus > Configure History.
2 In the History Options dialog box, select the time period after which the
Histories or Event Logs will be deleted.
3 Check Apply settings to clients not in Groups to apply the settings to the
selected client or clients under the selected server or server group that are
not members of client groups.
4 Click OK.
This does not permanently remove data, but hides it in the History and
Event Log views. To permanently delete History or Event Log records, delete
the .log files that contain the event records. Events are recorded in .log files
for each day of the week in a Logs directory. These files are named according
to the day on which they were created.
Working with Histories and Event Logs
Deleting Histories and Event Logs
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