Overview

Under the Inventory > Engines menu Central Management displays detailed information about scan engines and technologies including anti-malware engines, archive engines, utilities, etc.

On the Engines page all the licensed engines are listed with their details:

• ENGINE: The name of the engine,

• TYPE: the Type of the engine. The possible types are:

  • Archive engine,

  • Anti-malware engine,

  • Data sanitization engine,

  • Filetype detection engine,

  • Utility engine,

  • Vulnerability detection engine,

• PLATFORM: Operating system platform the engine runs on,

• VERSION: Engine version,

• DATABASE: Database version the engine is using,

• ENABLED: Enabled/disabled status of the engine.

Functions

The following functions are available:

1. UPDATE ALL: To manually trigger update of engine and database packages, click on the UPDATE ALL button.

2. UPLOAD PACKAGE: To install engine or database packages of your own, select the UPLOAD PACKAGE option.

3. Enable / Disable: Engines can be disabled (and re-enabled afterwards) by clicking on the (Enable) or (Disable) button.

   How to find the Enable / Disable button

   To make the Enable or Disable button visible, hover over the line of the engine. The button will appear at the end of the line:

   

   Disabled status

   When an engine is disabled neither the engine nor the corresponding database package is updated. Enabled status of the engine is marked by , while disabled status is marked by .