Important
You must enable malware detection (Signature and Heuristic Detection) and Scheduled Scans before you enable the cancel setting for on-demand malware scans.
To enable the pause malware scan setting for all host endpoints:
Log in to the Web UI as an administrator.
From the Admin menu, select Policies to access the Policies page.
In the Policies table, click the Agent Default Policy link to access the Edit Policy page.
Select the Malware Scans tab.
In the Malware Scans section, verify that the Scheduled Scans ON/OFF switch is turned ON.
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In the Scan Settings section, complete the following actions:
Toggle the User Paused Scans ON/OFF switch and set it to ON.
In the Pause duration field, enter the time interval for the pause duration you want to allow on your host endpoints in the Pause duration field. Valid values for the pause duration range from 1 to 48 hours.
In the Pause limit (per scan) field, define the maximum number of consecutive pauses the user is allowed on their host endpoint for a scheduled malware scan. Valid values for the maximum number of pauses range from 1 to 100 times. There is no default value.
Click Save.
To enable the pause malware scan setting for selected host sets:
Note
See Creating a Custom Policy for more information about using the Web UI to create a custom policy.
Log in to the Web UI as an administrator.
From the Admin menu, select Policies to access the Policies page.
In the Policies table, click the link for the custom policy you want to modify.
Select the Malware Scans tab.
In the Malware Scans section, verify that the Scheduled Scans ON/OFF switch is turned ON.
In the Scan Settings section, complete the following actions:
Toggle the User Paused Scans ON/OFF switch and set it to ON.
In the Pause duration field, enter the time interval for the pause duration you want to allow on your host endpoints in the Pause duration field. Valid values for the pause duration range from 1 to 48 hours.
In the Pause limit (per scan) field, define the maximum number of consecutive pauses the user is allowed on their host endpoint for a scheduled malware scan. Valid values for the maximum number of pauses range from 1 to 100 times. There is no default value.
Click Save.
Now you can assign host sets to the custom policy and set the policy priority level. See Assigning Host Sets to Agent Policies and Configuring Policy Priority Using the Web UI for more information.