Viewing the summary report of scanning done by Symantec Protection Engine 7.8 for a specific time duration

Products

• Protection Engine for Cloud Services
• Protection Engine for NAS

Issue/Introduction

 

Resolution

Symantec Protection Engine 7.8 does not have the user interface. You can view the summary report of scanning done by Symantec Protection Engine 7.8 for a specific time duration, using the log files (*.dat) available at the following location.

The default location and format for .dat files is as follows:

For Windows - C:\Program Files\Symantec\Scan Engine\log\SSEYYYYMMDD.dat.

For Linux - /opt/SYMCScan/log/SSEYYYYMMDD.dat

For example .dat file for 4^th December 2016 is represented as SSE20161204.dat.

Symantec Protection Engine 7.8, updates the SSE20161204.dat file every minute and displays the scanning information for the last minute. This is a comma separated file and provides you information about the following attributes:

Time	Log time in epoch.
Infections	Infections detected in the last minute.
Repaired	Infections repaired in the last minute.
Files Quarantined	Files Quarantined in the last minute.
Mail Policy Violations	Mail Policy Violations detected in the last minute.
Container Policy Violations	Container Policy Violations detected in the last minute.
File Attribute Policy Violations	File Attribute Policy Violations detected in the last minute.
Malformed Containers	Malformed Containers Violations detected in the last minute
URL Blocks	Number of URLS blocked in the last minute.
URL Audits	URLS audited in the last minute, when URL filtering feature is set to Audit mode.
DDR Blocks	This is a deprecated attribute, Symantec Protection Engine always logs zero (0) in this field.
DDR Audits	This is a deprecated attribute, Symantec Protection Engine always logs zero (0) in this field.
Total Files Scanned	Total number of files scanned including the child container files in the last minute.
Files Scanned	Number of top level files scanned in the last minute.
URLs Scanned	Number of URLS scanned in the last minute.
Megabytes Scanned	Amount of data scanned in the last minute.
Requests	Amount of requests received in the last minute.
Connections to Symantec Protection Engine	Number of connections received by Symantec Protection Engine in the last minute.
Cumulative Scan Time (milliseconds)	Total time spent for scanning for all requests.
Scan Errors	Total number of scan errors encountered in the last minute.
Spyware Risks	This is a deprecated attribute, Symantec Protection Engine always logs zero (0) in this field.
Adware Risks	This is a deprecated attribute, Symantec Protection Engine always logs zero (0) in this field.
Other Risks	This is a deprecated attribute, Symantec Protection Engine always logs zero (0) in this field.
Total Rejected Requests	Total number of requests rejected in the last minute.
Encrypted Containers	Total number of encrypted containers detected in the last minute.
High Risk Threats	Total number of High Risk Threats detected in the last minute.
Medium Risk Threats	Total number of medium Risk Threats detected in the last minute.
Low Risk Threats	Total number of low Risk Threats detected in the last minute.
Insight Virus	Total number of insight viruses detected in the last minute.
Insight Security Risks	Total number of Insight Security Risks detected in the last minute.
APK Reputation Violations	Total number of APK Reputation Violations detected in the last minute.