Database Maintenance - McAfee MAP-3300-SWG - Web Security Appliance 3300 Product Manual

Overview of System features
Appliance Management
Table 213 Option definitions — Serial Device Details screen
Option
Vendor name
UPS device model Select from the list of supported USB models supplied by the vendor you chose
Serial port
Table 214 Option definitions — Get power status from another EWS appliance
Option
Appliance name or address The host name or IP address of the master appliance
User name
Password
Test Authentication

Database Maintenance

Use this page to manage the number of events contained in the reporting database, and the number
of items identified using the Message Search feature, and to enable external devices to access
information about email events via SQL.
System | Appliance Management | Database Maintenance
Click on the relevant link below to view the help page specific to the area of the user interface you are
interested in.
Table 215 Option definitions
Option
Retention Limits Use this area to set the limits on the maximum time or number of items retained
Event Options
External Access Use this area to configure your appliance to allow an off box SQL database access to
Maintenance
Retention Limits
Use this area to set the limits on the maximum time or number of reporting or message items
retained within the database.
System | Appliance Management | Database Maintenance | Retention Limits
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Definition
Lists supported vendors
Select the serial port that you want to use. COM1 is the built-in serial port on the
appliance
Definition
The username given to the master appliance
The password assigned to the master appliance
Click to test the connection between the appliance and the master device
defined above.
Definition
within the database. The limits differ depending on your model of hardware and the
size of the appliance hard disk.
Events are defined as items contained in the reporting database, and items identified
using Message Search (quarantined messages, blocked messages, delivered messages,
and bounced messages). Use this area to define the events that are stored in the
database.
the appliance reporting database to view information about email and web detections,
and configuration change events.
Use this area to configure the frequency of database maintenance tasks, and to
manually trigger these tasks.