Dell EqualLogic PS6210XS EqualLogic Group Manager Administrator s Guide PS Ser - Page 203
Enable the NAS Antivirus Service on an SMB Share, Exclude File Types on an SMB Share
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• Use only numbers, letters, underscores, and dollar signs ($) in the file types. 2. Click Group, expand Group Configuration, and select the NAS cluster. 3. Click the Advanced tab and go to the Antivirus Defaults for SMB Shares panel. 4. In either the File Extensions to Exclude or Directory Paths to Exclude subpanel, click Add to open the Add List Item dialog box. 5. Specify a file type such as xls or ppt. Do not include the period (.) that separates a file type from the file name. 6. Click OK to add the extension to the list of excluded files. 7. Repeat this process to add more file extensions. 8. Click the Save all changes icon at the top of the window. NOTE: You also use this process to add directory paths for exclusion from antivirus scans. Make sure you click the Save All Changes icon at the top of the window to complete the process. Enable the NAS Antivirus Service on an SMB Share You can enable the NAS antivirus service for individual SMB shares. To find out whether antivirus scanning is enabled for a particular SMB share, see Monitor the NAS Antivirus Service. NOTE: You cannot configure the antivirus service when you create an SMB share at the same time as you create a NAS container. You must configure the antivirus service when you modify an SMB share. 1. Click NAS, expand NAS Clusters and Local Containers, and then select the NAS container name. 2. Click the SMB Shares tab to display a list of SMB shares. 3. Select an SMB share. 4. Click Modify SMB Share, then click the Antivirus Settings tab. 5. Select or clear Enable virus scanning. 6. Click OK. In the list of SMB shares, the column titled Virus scanning now reads enabled for this share. After you enable the antivirus service, you can: • Control which file types are excluded from being scanned • Control which directories are excluded from being scanned Exclude File Types on an SMB Share 1. Prepare a list of file types that you want to exclude from scans: • Include variants of those file types, such as docx and doc to specify Microsoft Word documents. • Use only numbers, letters, underscores, and dollar signs ($) for the file types. 2. Click NAS, expand NAS Clusters and Local Containers, and then select the NAS container name. 3. Click the Advanced tab and go to the Antivirus Defaults for SMB Shares panel. 4. In either the File Extensions to Exclude or Directory Paths to Exclude subpanel, click Add to open the Add List Item dialog box. NOTE: Wildcard characters (*) and question marks (?) are not supported in antivirus exclude paths. 5. Specify a file type such as xls or ppt. Do not include the period (.) that separates a file type from the file name. 6. Click OK to add the file type. 7. Repeat steps 4 to 6 to add more file types to exclude from the scan. 8. Click the Save all changes icon at the top of the window. You can also configure the specifications for large file handling from the Antivirus Defaults for SMB Shares panel: 1. In the Exclude files larger than field, type the file-size limitation for the antivirus scan. 2. Select a unit (MB, GB, or TB) from the drop-down menu. 3. Click the Save All Changes icon at the top of the screen. NAS Container Operations 203