Looking for some opinions on this configuration. We have a clustered mail/apps server running 6.5.2 and Windows 2000 Server. It hosts mail, apps, and it is clustered with two other servers. My OS team is telling me that all servers, regardless of apps, has to have symantec antivirus installed on the OS. In Domino, I’m running Scanmail 2.6SP2. This server only hosts 120 at one time, max. At times, our Tivoli Perf Mon reports moderate to poor server response but nothing very noticeable from an end-user standpoint. The hardware is fairly new, less than 10 months old and it is running on an EMC SAN.
I would like to find out if having two virus scanners is overkill in this configuration. Our virus notifcations are coming from both scanners but at different times and I’m afraid that this config is affecting performance.
Subject: Two Virus Scanners – One Domino Server???
My experience is that (sometimes, not allways) installing more than one virusscanner on one machine can cause problems. Sometimes the virusscanners interpret eachother’s behaviour as ‘suspicious’ and they start to interfere with eachother.
Subject: Two Virus Scanners – One Domino Server???
This should work just fine. Make sure that the OS scanner has an exception which tells it to NOT scan the Domino program file directory and data directories. That way there should be no interference. The OS product handles everything at the non-Domino related file level and the Domino product handles everything inside the Domino-related directories.
Subject: AGREE: Two Virus Scanners – One Domino Server???
I agree with Greg. We’ve had several servers where we’re running Groupshield for Domino in Domino, and something else on the OS. As long as you don’t include the Domino files/directories in the OS scanner, everything should be fine.
Subject: Two Virus Scanners – One Domino Server???
In my experience, there are few products including antivirus, antispams, and compression tools that really provided compatibility kits…
The typical situation:
1+ Virus comes
2+ Antivirus A holds the email
3+ Antivirus B also holds the same email
4+ Antivirus A does not detect the virus and releases it
5+ Antivirus B detects the virus! but it’s too late to kill the virus since in step 4 the virus was already sent…
I suggest you to check the help files for both antivirus to check if at least one of them provides compatibility for other third party solutions… if the product is really good it should provide it, it’s not a big deal.