About LiveUpdate rule updates on SMG-SP 10.6

Products

• Messaging Gateway for Service Providers

Issue/Introduction

How to confirm the status of LiveUpdate on Symantec Messaging Gateway Service Provider(SMG-SP)

Environment

Release : 10.6

Component : LiveUpdate

Resolution

The file jlustats.xml is a self-explanatory file that provides information about the
antivirus ruleset that is updated. You may want to view this file to verify rule status
for the SMG-SP stand-alone instances of SMG-SP.
A single entry in the file appears as follows:

<RULEUPDATE ruletype="av" lastupdate="YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss"
lastupdate-status="STATUS" current-status="STATUS"
last-modified-date=" YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss" lastupdate-version="YYYY-MM-DD"
lastupdate-revision="REVISION" lastupdate-package="PACKAGE"
last-good-update=" YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss"
retries-since-last-good-update="THE NUMBER OF ATTEMPTS" />

The RULEUPDATE attributes are described as follows:

ruletype	The type of the rule that is updated.
lastupdate	The date and the time when the antivirus rule set was last downloaded. Date and time are given in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).
lastupdate-status	Status of the last downloaded antivirus ruleset. A status can be In-progress, Success, Failed, or Waiting.
current-status	Status of the current antivirus ruleset download. A status can be In-progress, Success, Failed, or Waiting.
last-modified-date	The date when Symantec Security Response changed the ruleset. Date and time are given in UTC.
lastupdate-version	The version of the last downloaded antivirus ruleset. A version is the date when Symantec Security Response released the ruleset. For example, lastupdate-version="2011-9-15"
lastupdate-revision	The revision of the last downloaded antivirus ruleset. A revision is the number of the ruleset version. For example, lastupdate-revision="33"
lastupdate-package	The file name of the ruleset that was last downloaded.
last-good-update	The latest successfully downloaded antivirus ruleset.
retries-since-last-good-update	The number of attempts made to download the antivirus ruleset since last successful download.