Chapter 5. NOD32LMS configuration
This chapter describes the process of the NOD32LMS configuration. In the first section the struc-
ture and meaning of all NOD32LMS configuration files will be discussed. The rest of the chapter
is devoted to individual scenarios related configurations as discussed briefly in chapter 3.
5.1. NOD32LMS - own configuration
All the necessary configuration files concerned with functionality of NOD32LMS are stored
within a directory
/etc/nod32
In the following text all the files stored within this directory are going to be discussed.
/etc/nod32/nod32.cfg
This is a most important file, commonly known also as ’main NOD32 configuration file’. Af-
ter exploring the file you can see that its structure is composed from various parameters of
NOD32LMS that are all distributed within sections (note the section names are always enclosed
in square brackets - []) . There is always one global and several special sections in the file. The
configuration of the whole system (i.e. key features discussed within Introduction to this guide
and much more) is provided by setting parameters used within individual sections. The param-
eters defined within a global section are valid for all modules (sometimes we call those modules
’agents’) of NOD32LMS. The parameters defined within a special section, on the other hand,
are valid only for an appropriate agent of NOD32LMS. At this point we should describe the
individual parameters meaning, however, we will not do it here as it is done in manual pages
corresponding to the appropriate module. For instance the parameters that can be used in global
and also in special sections are described in the manual page concerned with daemon nod32d
(main NOD32LMS daemon). The manual page can be invoked using the following statement
man nod32d
Similarly, the parameters that can be only used in the special sections are described in the
manual pages concerned with individual modules, i.e. nod32mda, nod32smtp, nod32smfi and
nod32cli.
We recommend the user to use these resources always when referring to the parameters of
NOD32LMS components. Refer to the appendix A to see a full list of manual pages installed.
Let’s return to the description of the structure of the main configuration file. It is good to note
that every parameter listed in the global section has a lower priority than the same parameter
listed in the module section. The only exception is concerned with the parameters reported in
the manual page for daemon nod32d as private, which are used only by nod32d daemon. These
are typically the logging parameters as there is only daemon nod32d that provides you with
logging of NOD32LMS activity and infiltrations detected by the system.
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