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7.2. Alerts and e-mail notifications

from workstations and servers

7.2.1. Alerts from workstations and their

severity levels

After you have added a server to the logical network, it is advisable that you

define how the alerts will be processed. Alerts are delivered to the server from

the tasks performed on the supervised workstations

. For example, if Kaspersky

AV Scanner detects a virus, it generates the Infected object found alert or if

Kaspersky AV Updater fails to update the anti-virus database, it generates the

alert "An error has occurred during Kaspersky AV Updater Wizard process"

alert. The Kaspersky Anti-Virus

tasks performed on workstation send their alerts

to the server that forwards them to user-defined recipients.

You must enable all the controlled workstations to send alert messages

via the supervising server. To do this, define appropriate settings on

every workstation (see subchapter 7.2.2 on page 68).

For a complete list of alerts generated by the Kaspersky Anti-Virus

components, refer to the documentation for these components. While

configuring the logical network, the administrator can use Kaspersky AV

Control Centre to enable/disable workstations to send various alerts

(see the User Guide "Kaspersky Anti-Virus

for Workstations").

For example, Kaspersky AV Scanner (one of the Kaspersky Anti-Virus

components) can generate seven types of alert (see Figure 49).

The server classifies the received alerts by their severity and, if preset, forwards

different types of alerts to different addresses. Alert messages generated by the

Kaspersky Anti-Virus

components can have the following severity levels:

• informational – informational messages

• low – messages of low severity

• high – messages of high severity

• critical – the message information is critical.

In this version of the Kaspersky Anti-Virus software package, the warnings generated by the com-

ponents are not user-defined.