These alerts
pertain to the health and functioning of the Management Server.
Reporting Alerts
Reporting alerts provide alerts on the status of the Microsoft Reporting services, and
Microsoft Windows 2003. If there are any issues such as a problem with the server,
activation report alerts will trigger a notifi cation.
Server Alerts
These are alerts generated by the Forefront Client Security server. Note that this is
different from Management alerts because server alerts provided notifi cation to many
other possible issues, including when the server detects malware.
Server Behavior
As with clients, the Server Behavior rules perform various actions to keep key data up to
date, and detect various threats such as a malware fl ood.
Confi guring Notifi cations
As with a normal MOM installation, you can set up notifi cations. Notifi cations allow
you to associate an alert with a notifi cation group. The notifi cation group can be
confi gured to be notifi ed using various notifi cation methods.
SQL Reporting Services
SQL reporting services is the foundation for all Forefront reporting. All reports are
generated by predefi ned templates. The majority of the reporting that is necessary
with Forefront will be available in the reports that come with Forefront.
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Summary
Confi guring policies in Forefront is one of the most important jobs for security
administrators who manage a Forefront Client Security deployment.
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