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AsyncOS 9.1.2 for Cisco Email Security Appliances User Guide
Chapter 30 Policy, Virus, and Outbreak Quarantines
Managing Policy, Virus, and Outbreak Quarantines
Managing Policy, Virus, and Outbreak Quarantines
• Disk Space Allocation for Policy, Virus, and Outbreak Quarantines, page 30-3
• Retention Time for Messages in Quarantines, page 30-3
• Default Actions for Automatically Processed Quarantined Messages, page 30-4
• Checking the Settings of System-Created Quarantines, page 30-5
• Configuring Policy, Virus, and Outbreak Quarantines, page 30-5
• About Editing Policy, Virus, and Outbreak Quarantine Settings, page 30-6
• Determining the Filters and Message Actions to Which a Policy Quarantine Is Assigned, page 30-7
• About Deleting Policy Quarantines, page 30-7
• Monitoring Quarantine Status, Capacity, and Activity, page 30-8
• Policy Quarantine Performance, page 30-8
• Alerts About Quarantine Disk-Space Usage, page 30-9
• Policy Quarantines and Logging, page 30-9
• About Distributing Message Processing Tasks to Other Users, page 30-9
• About Policy, Virus, and Outbreak Quarantines in Cluster Configurations, page 30-10
• About Centralized Policy, Virus, and Outbreak Quarantines, page 30-10
Disk Space Allocation for Policy, Virus, and Outbreak Quarantines
For disk space information for policy, virus, and outbreak quarantines, see Managing Disk Space,
page 33-16.
Policy, virus, and outbreak quarantines consume some disk space on the Email Security appliance even
if the quarantines are centralized.
Messages in multiple quarantines consume the same amount of disk space as a message in a single
quarantine.
Related Topics
• Monitoring Quarantine Status, Capacity, and Activity, page 30-8
• Alerts About Quarantine Disk-Space Usage, page 30-9
• Retention Time for Messages in Quarantines, page 30-3
Retention Time for Messages in Quarantines
Messages are automatically removed from the quarantine under the following circumstances:
• Normal Expiration—the configured retention time is met for a message in the quarantine. You
specify a retention time for messages in each quarantine. Each message has its own specific
expiration time, displayed in the quarantine listing. Messages are stored for the amount of time
specified unless another circumstance described in this topic occurs.