Customizing Active Update settings
Some Active Update settings, such as the number of the port to which SNS firewalls must connect, or the frequency of automatic updates, cannot be configured in the SMC web interface. However, these settings can be modified in a configuration file.
- Open the /data/config/activeupdate/config.ini file.
[General]
State=false
Port=8081
Host=0.0.0.0
[Sync]
Source=https://update1-sns.stormshieldcs.eu/package
Categories=ALL
Tries=3
AutoUpdate=false
AutoUpdatePeriod=0 */3 * * * - Change the settings as desired:
State Enables the Active Update server on SMC. Port Port of the SMC server on which SNS firewalls must connect. Host Network interfaces on which the SMC server listens.
Replace this value with eth0, eth1 for example to indicate that only interfaces eth0 and eth1 are used.Source URL of the Stormshield server from which Active Update databases are downloaded. Categories List of Active Update databases that you wish to download from the SMC server. The values of the database categories are as follows. Separate them with commas.
Database category Value All databases ALL Antispam: DNS blacklists ANTISPAM Antispam: heuristic engine VADERETRO Embedded URL database URLFILTERING Antivirus: ClamAV antivirus signatures CLAMAV Antivirus: antivirus signatures of the previous Advanced Antivirus service KASPERSKY Antivirus: antivirus signatures of the new Advanced Antivirus service ADVANCEDAV1 IPS: contextual protection signatures PATTERNS Root Certification Authorities ROOTCERTS Geolocation/Public IP reputation IPDATA Vulnerability management SEISMO Application and web service icons METADATA Tries Number of tries when the database update fails. AutoUpdatePeriod Frequency of database updates. The possible values are in CRON format. By default, 0 */3 * * * means that databases will be updated every 3 hours. - Save the file. Changes will be immediately applied;
- Only if the State setting has been modified, restart the server SMCwith the command nrestart fwadmin-server.