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Virus Outbreak Filter basics

Lynn Albitz
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We just implemented a pilot of the Virus Outbreak Filters.  How can you track items that were caught and released by the outbreak filters?  Once they are out of the quarantines, I can't seem to find the message details. I can see reports with numbers but not specifics.  Thanks.

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Hi Lynn,

You can track information related to these messages via the mail logs on your appliance. When a message is tagged for VOF quarantine you will see something similar to this.

"Message quarantined in the Outbreak quarantine as a result of rule 'ADAPTIVE_RULE".

When the message is released you would see something similar to this.

released from quarantine Outbreak after XXXXXXX seconds. Reason: expiration

where XXXXXXX is a numeric value in seconds. If the message is manually release of course the Reason code would state that.

In both cases you should see a MID for the message which you can use to search for specifics,

example.com> grep

Currently configured logs:

16. "mail_logs" Type: "IronPort Text Mail Logs" Retrieval: FTP Poll

Enter the number of the log you wish to grep.
[]> 16

Enter the regular expression to grep.
[]> MID 565566

Do you want this search to be case insensitive? [Y]>

Do you want to tail the logs? [N]>

Do you want to paginate the output? [N]>

Christopher C Smith
CSE
Cisco IronPort Customer Support