3.4 Module-Specific Configuration

This section describes scanning modules for the following products:

• ALL-IN-1 IOS for OpenVMS Systems (see Section 3.6.2)

• DIGITAL Office Server V4.0 (see Section 3.6.3)

• DIGITAL X.500 Directory Service, both for DIGITAL UNIX Systems (see Section 3.7.2) and for OpenVMS Systems (see Section 3.6.4)

• MailWorks, both for DIGITAL UNIX Systems (see Section 3.7.3) and for OpenVMS Systems (see Section 3.6.5)

• MAILbus 400 Message Router Gateway, for OpenVMS VAX (see Section 3.6.6)

• MAILbus 400 Message Transfer Agent, both for DIGITAL UNIX Systems (see Section 3.7.4) and for OpenVMS Systems (see Section 3.6.7)

• MAILbus 400 Message Store for DIGITAL UNIX (see Section 3.7.5)

• MAILbus 400 SMTP Gateway for DIGITAL UNIX (see Section 3.7.6)

• Microsoft Exchange Server (see Section 3.5.2)

• PING, for Windows NT systems (see Section 3.5.3), for DIGITAL UNIX Systems (see Section 3.7.7) and for OpenVMS Systems (see Section 3.6.8)

The PING scanning module allows you to trigger (from the client) the sending of test messages from the scanning module's server to a system named in the scanning module's initialization file.

In order to reduce the time that the scanning module takes for a scan, you can reduce the number of hosts scanned, or the Packet_ Size or Packet_Number. As a PING test reports the average time taken for a test packet to be sent back from a system that is sent a PING message (and the average is based on however many packets the PING command specifies), reducing the size or number of packets in a test message reduces the accuracy of the test. Changing Packet_Size and Packet_Number is therefore a matter of system tuning.

Mail Monitor also provides scanning modules for the following products, which do not have configuration files that you can change:

• Message Router for OpenVMS VAX

• Message Router Directory Service for OpenVMS VAX

• Message Router Telex Gateway for OpenVMS VAX

• Message Router VMSmail[TM] Gateway for OpenVMS VAX

• Message Router X.400 Gateway for OpenVMS VAX

• Message Router/P Gateway for OpenVMS VAX

• Message Router/S Gateway for OpenVMS VAX

This chapter gives details only of sections that are specific to a particular scanning module, and the scanning modules are divided into sections that relate to a particular operating system.

For a full list of all checks that a scanning module makes, together with the default values expected for those checks, see the chapter in Part III that gives module information specific to the operating system you require.