Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance C160 Mode D'Emploi

Processing for LDAP recipient access, masquerading, LDAP re-routing, Message Filters, anti-spam, and 
the anti-virus scanning engine are all performed in the “work queue.” Refer to “Configuring Routing and 
Delivery Features” in the Cisco IronPort AsyncOS for Email Advanced Configuration Guide for the 
processing flow and 

 for a description of the “Messages in Work Queue” gauge. 

You can manually pause the work queue portion of message processing using the 

workqueue

 command. 

For example, assume that you wanted to change the configuration of an LDAP server configuration while 
many messages are in the work queue. Perhaps you want to switch from bouncing to dropping messages 
based on an LDAP recipient access query. Or perhaps you want to pause the queue while you manually 
check for the latest anti-virus scanning engine definition files (via the 

antivirusupdate

 command).The 

workqueue

 command allows you to pause and resume the work queue to stop processing while you 

perform other configuration changes. 

When you pause and resume the work queue, the event is logged. For example 

In the following example, the work queue is paused:

[1]> 1

Please enter the domain to schedule for immediate delivery.

[]> recipient.example.com

Rescheduling all messages to recipient.example.com for immediate delivery.

mail3.example.com>

Sun Aug 17 20:01:36 2003 Info: work queue paused, 1900 msgs S

Sun Aug 17 20:01:39 2003 Info: work queue resumed, 1900 msgs 

mail3.example.com> workqueue

Status as of:  Sun Aug 17 20:02:30 2003 GMT

Status:   Operational

Messages: 1243

Choose the operation you want to perform:

- STATUS - Display work queue status