How are features licensed in MailMarshal SPE?


This article applies to:

  • MailMarshal SPE 2.3 and above

Question:

  • How are features licensed?
  • Some rule condition and policy elements may not be visible in the Console

Information:

In MailMarshal SPE 2.3 and above, product components are licensed separately. The following components can be licensed:

  • Anti-Virus
  • Anti-Spam
  • Content Scanning
  • SpamProfiler
  • IP Reputation Service (3.0 and above)
  • Blended Threats (3.0 and above)

Depending on the licensed components, some menu items and functionality will display or be hidden in the Administration and Customer Web Consoles. These include Rule Conditions, Policy Elements, SpamProfiler configuration, SpamCensor updates, and the SQM Console.

The automatic trial license includes all items.

To check which components are licensed, click About in the Administration Console menu tree.

Feature availability

  • If Anti-Spam is not licensed, the SQM website feature is not available (including configuration interfaces in the Consoles), and SpamCensor updates are not downloaded.
  • If SpamProfiler is not licensed, the SpamProfiler updates are not performed.

Rule condition availability

The following Rule Conditions are affected by licensing.

  • A check (or text in Other Components) indicates that the Condition is available if the component is licensed.

Anti-Spam

Content Scanning

Other Components

 

 

Connection Policy (Receiver Rules)

 

 

 

 

Where the sender has authenticated

Anti-Virus

Sender's IP Address is listed by

 

Sender's IP address matches

 

Message size is

 

Sender's HELO name

 

Where the SPF evaluation

 

 

 

Content Policy (Standard Rules)

 

 

 

 

Message Attachment is of type

 

Sender's IP address matches

 

Message size is

 

Estimated Bandwidth required

 

Message contains attachments

Anti-Virus

Triggers text censor script

 

Triggers System text censor script

 

External command command is triggered

 

Attachment Parent type is

 

Message Attachment size is

 

Number of recipients is

 

Message contains one or more headers

 

Number of Attachments is

 

Sender is/is not in the recipients safe senders list

 

 

Message spoofing analysis is based on

 

The attached image

 

Where the message is categorized as

 

Result of a virus scan

 

 

Anti-Virus

Detected as Spam (SpamCensor, SpamBotCensor)

 

 

Detected as Spam (SpamProfiler)

 

SpamProfiler

Blended Threat Module Analysis

 

Blended Threat

Policy element availability

The following Policy Elements are affected by licensing.

  • A check (or text in Other Components) indicates that the Element is available if the component is licensed.

Policy Element

Anti-Spam

Content Scanning

Other Components

Accounts

(This setting applies to versions 2.3 through 3.1. In version 3.2 and above, Accounts are always available and are configured within the listing of each Customer.)

Anti-Virus

External Commands

Custom File Types

TextCensors

System TextCensors

Message Digests

Message Stamps

Anti-Virus

Marshal IP Reputation Service (Configured in Array properties)

IP Reputation

Usage Reporting

Two additional system reports are included to show customer usage of these features:

  • License Allocation History shows customer usage of the Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, and Content Scanning features over time.
  • License Allocation Summary shows current customer usage of the Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, and Content Scanning features.

Note:

Licensing of individual virus scanners, and Image Analyzer licensing, are controlled by the MailMarshal SMTP keys installed on each array.


Last Modified 12/7/2009.
https://support.trustwave.com/kb/KnowledgebaseArticle12167.aspx