Re[2]: [sniffer] When to go persistent

2006-02-23 Thread Pete McNeil 
On Thursday, February 23, 2006, 11:53:51 AM, LLC wrote:

JISL I'm investigating the persistant mode and read the info on the web site.
JISL Can't make heads or tails of it.

JISL How do enable persistant mode on a Windows 2003 Server?  The web site 
speaks
JISL hypothetically, but the information is not practical.

From the message at 
JISL http://www.mail-archive.com/sniffer@sortmonster.com/msg00165.html it would
JISL seem that you need an external utility to run Sniffer in persistant mode,
JISL but the link to
JISL http://www.judoscript.com/goodies/RunExeSvc/runexesvc.html 
JISL is no longer valid.

JISL What exact steps are needed to run in persistant mode on Windows 2003 
JISL Server?

Sorry about that... the Judoscript site comes and goes lately. (Maybe
permanently gone this time).

To run in persistent mode, simply launch an instance of SNF from the
command line with the word persistent in place of the file to scan.

licenseid.exe authentication persistent

The persistent instance will be recognized by all of the other
instances (those are launched by your email server usually - one per
message).

When a persistent instance is present it will keep the rulebase loaded
in memory and the other instances will coordinate with it to get their
messages scanned. This eliminates the work of reloading the rulebase
and can help to optimize the timing of the message scans to improve
throughput.

If the persistent instance fails or is stopped for any reason then the
SNF software returns to it's native peer-server mode.

There are a number of utilities out there (some free) that allow you
to run an executable as a service. RunExeSvc is the one I used. Many
have recommended FireDaemon:

http://www.firedaemon.com/

There is also a windows toolkit that will let you run programs as
services - it requires some hacking in the registry as I recall.

I can't provide specifics for these approaches at this time, but I
believe the windows toolkit method was described well in the sniffer@
list archives, and Firedaemon will have it's own process that is
likely to be simpler.

Hope this helps,

_M



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RE: Re[2]: [sniffer] When to go persistent

2006-02-23 Thread Goran Jovanovic 
Pete,

 To run in persistent mode, simply launch an instance of SNF from the
 command line with the word persistent in place of the file to scan.
 
 licenseid.exe authentication persistent
 

I am calling Sniffer from Declude. Could I just later my statement in my
config file to include persistent? That way the first time it is called
that instance will go persistent and all the rest will end up talking to
it?

Regardless of how the persistent instance is started should I have the
persistent keyword on the line that is called from Declude?

Goran Jovanovic



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