McAfee EWS-3100-00AA User manual

1Unpack your appliance
Quick Start Guide for McAfee®Email and Web Security Appliance
2Rack-mount your appliance (if required)
3Connect peripherals and connect to power 4Connect to network
5Switch on the appliance 6Patch or re-image your appliance to the latest version
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Check delivery against the packing list.
See the McAfee Email and Web Security
Appliance Installation Guide, located in
the accessory kit, for detailed installation
information.
For more information, see the Installation Guide.
To see other documents, visit the McAfee support site:
https://mysupport.mcafee.com/eservice_enu/default.htm
Select Read Product Documentation, then select Email
and Web Security Appliance Hardware. Select your
appliance model to view the documents.
Before installing your McAfee®Email and Web Security Appliance, read the safety information referenced in the McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance Installation
Guide.
Log in — using your Grant number — and check the McAfee
download site
http://www.mcafee.com/us/enterprise/downloads/index.html
Check for CD image updates, if a later image is available,
download the latest version of the Email and Web Security
Appliances software that you have purchased and create an
installation CD.
Insert the CD into the CD-ROM drive, and reboot the appliance
to start the re-imaging of the appliance.
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7Configure settings on the appliance
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Route test network traffic through the appliance
10 Confirm test network traffic is being scanned 11 Configure policies and reports
Configure your network to route test traffic through your appliance
Configure your network to route production traffic through your appliance
Test Network
Production Network
To confirm your appliance is detecting viruses, either send
email messages containing the EICAR test string or with
EICAR test files attached, or download an EICAR test file from
http://www.eicar.org, making sure the email or the
downloaded file passes through your appliance.
To confirm your appliance is detecting spam messages, send
email messages containing the GTUBE spam test string
(available from http://spamassassin.apache.org/gtube/)
through your appliance.
View the Dashboard to confirm test viruses and spam messages
are detected.
For more information on configuring policies and reports,
see the Online Help within the product.
In addition, visit the McAfee Service Portal:
https://mysupport.mcafee.com/eservice_enu/default.htm
Select Product Documentation, then select Email and
Web Security Appliance Hardware. Select your
appliance model to view the documents.
Connect using default username = scmadmin and default password = scmchangeme.
Quick Start Guide for McAfee®Email and Web Security Appliance