Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance X1070 Troubleshooting Guide
After upgrading to a new version of AsyncOS you receive an alert similar to the following:
sophos antivirus − The Anti−Virus database on this
system is expired. Although the system will continue
to scan for existing viruses, new virus updates will
no longer be available. Please upgrade to the latest
AsyncOSversion immediately. Contact Cisco TAC if you
have any questions.
This error indicates that the Anti−Virus engine is not current for the upgraded version of AsyncOS at the time
of system startup. However, the Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) will check for Anti−Virus engine
updates after coming online and will update to the current version.
of system startup. However, the Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) will check for Anti−Virus engine
updates after coming online and will update to the current version.
If you would like to verify that the engine update was successful, simply issue the antivirusstatus or avstatus
command from the command line interface (CLI) to view the current Anti−Virus engine version.
command from the command line interface (CLI) to view the current Anti−Virus engine version.
esa.example.com> avstatus
SAV Engine Version 3.2.07.351.0_5.01
IDE Serial 2014080505
Last Engine Update 28 Jul 2014 22:45 (GMT +00:00)
Last IDE Update 05 Aug 2014 19:08 (GMT +00:00)
After validating that the appliance has reached out and upgraded with the avstatus command, you may safely
ignore this alert.
ignore this alert.
Updated: Aug 07, 2014
Document ID: 118193