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Keeping an Eye on Zimbra

The other tool for determining disk space, is the Disk tab, under the Server Statistics application.

4. Click on the Disk tab in the results pane.

The Disk monitoring tool looks at the disk space used and available per hour and per day. The Disk tool, in conjunction with the Message Volume tool, is very effective in determining current and future disk space requirements for your organization.

Security

By security, I am mostly speaking about securing your server, and users, against spam and viruses. Zimbra comes with built-in anti-spam and anti-virus functionality, however, it is also important for the Zimbra administrator to keep track of the spam and virus activity on the server. By doing so, they could make educated guesses as to whether the tools are tuned and configured properly, as well as, if additional third- party tools may be necessary.

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The Anti-Spam/Anti-Virus monitoring tool is also located in the Administration Console in the Server Statistics tab. By clicking on the Anti-spam/Anti-virus Activity tab, we could view spam and virus activity for the last 48 hours, 30 days, 60 days, and a year. This tool displays the total messages received, and then uses colour coding, blue for spam and red for viruses, to provide an overall picture of the activity on the server.

Again, this is another effective monitoring tool to help performance-tune the server, and see that the security settings you have configured are appropriate for your organization and the email server.

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