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McAfee antivirus supported with SAP

Former Member
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Hi

I would like to know if McAfee antivirus is supported with SAP??

At this time we don't have the antivirus installed on our servers and we are thinking of doing so.

Jean-Francois

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Former Member
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Hi,

In addition you can check following SAP notes

Note 639486 - Anti-virus protection within SAP applications (BC-SEC-VIR)

Note 786179 - Data security products: Application in the antivirus area

regards,

kaushal

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Perfect

thank you all for the information

Jean-Francois

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I have anti-virus (E-Trust - real time monitor) running on my SAP servers. However, my anti-virus application allows me to put exceptions on certain drives to prevent any additional I/O consumptions.

Never had experience w/ McAfee and SAP, sorry.

markus_doehr2
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> I have anti-virus (E-Trust - real time monitor) running on my SAP servers. However, my anti-virus application allows me to put exceptions on certain drives to prevent any additional I/O consumptions

yes - but the driver of the AV software is hooked up still there.

In my opinion this necessity (of having a Virus scanner on a database server) seriously dejects Windows as operating system for mission critical and high performance systems.

Markus

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Just my opinon here:

We have a 5TB database, 90K+ user base, and on average over 500 concurrent users on 10 application servers and a SQL Database. All the application servers have e-trust running w/ exceptions on the SAP install drive (e.g. kernel and work directories). On the database server, we have exceptions to tell e-trust to not scan I/O to the data drives.

I do agree with you - Logically, AV is a real-time monitor so of course there will be additional I/O.

However, I do not agree that in order to properly secure your windows O/S by implementing an AV software would mean seriously hinder the performance of the O/S. I would instead say that there could be some performance impact, but nothing that can't be corrected via proper configuration.

markus_doehr2
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However, I do not agree that in order to properly secure your windows O/S by implementing an AV software would mean seriously hinder the performance of the O/S. I would instead say that there could be some performance impact, but nothing that can't be corrected via proper configuration.

I´m not saying it´s bad to secure the OS (in contrary!) - I´m saying that the NECESSITY of installing AV products on to a mission critical server disqualifies the OS - the affinity for Viruses and other malware.

However, this is just my personal opinion, I didn´t want to to start a flamewar on which OS is better (or worse), this is a decision each company (or ISV) has to do on its own, that affinity is just a no-go for our environment - burnt child dreads the fire.

Markus

markus_doehr2
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Personally I would never install any AV software on a database server. The AV software hooks up to the I/O layer and slows down the system, even if you exclude the database files from being scanned.

On an application server there's not much I/O done so it may make sense to install it there.

Markus