HNAS error: "No virus scan engines are available on [HOSTNAME]"

Products

• Protection Engine for NAS

Issue/Introduction

Hitachi NAS (HNAS) sends scan requests to Symantec Protection Engine (SPE) 8.2.x. HNAS records one or more log entries similar to the following:  

7313 Severe      2022-04-11 15:12:22-04:00 1 No virus scan engines are available on []HOSTNAME_REMOVED_BY_AUTHOR] (ID=1).

Cause

Network aware components of Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) client or Symantec Endpoint Security (SES) agent are installed and adding latency to network connectivity.

Environment

Release : 8.2.2

Component :

Resolution

Re-install instance of SEP Agent, with only the core files and Threat Defense for Active Directory (TDAD) components.