Enabling Virus Scanning for Application Servers

PeopleTools provides the capability to scan attachments for viruses before streaming the attachments from the application server to the PeopleSoft system.

The attachment is streamed to the PeopleSoft system if the attachment is clean, that is, it is not infected. For example, you can scan a file for viruses before downloading it from the Oracle Digital Assistant (ODA) server to the PeopleSoft repository.

Additionally, you may use the ScanFile built-in function to perform virus scanning. See ScanFile.

To enable virus scanning, PeopleTools provides a VirusScan.xml file on the application server, and its configuration is similar to the VirusScan.xml configuration file on the web server. The virus scan error return codes are also similar to the virus error return codes on the web server.

See Enabling Virus Scanning for Web Servers.

Follow these steps to configure the VirusScan.xml file:

• The VirusScan.xml file on your system for application server is at this location:

  PS_CFG_HOME\appserv\domain_name\VirusScan.xml

• Open the VirusScan.xml file and set the value of disableAll to "False". By default, disableAll is "True".

  <Providers disableAll="False" logFile="%VIRUS_SCAN_LOG%">

• Replace %VIRUS_SCAN_LOG% with the name of the log file on the application server. The log file is created in the application server logs folder.