Protection Engine for Network Attached Storage

Has anyone had any experience installing Symantec Antirus software on an Apple Xsan Storage area network?  If so, I'd love to hear specifics.

We run 5 Mac edit suites, with two Mac Server/Controllers over an Xsan SAN, and we are being asked to install Symantec Antivirus programs on all of them.  Everything I read tells me this is not a good idea, but I'd love to hear from the experts.

Thanks in advance,
Wayne Smith

SAV for NAS is not a product you install onto any NAS or SAN device. You install it onto a Windows, Linux or SPARC server and the NAS will have a product that sends file scan requests to the Scan Engine.

I did a quick google search for xsan and browsed through Apple's admin guide but I do not see any built-in support for a connector to send the requests to Scan Engine. If there is a third party program, then maybe that would work.

Perhaps you are meaning to post this in the Endpoint Protection forum? I do not know anything about that product so you would want to post there if you haven't already. From what I can see, the Xsan software just installs onto any server running Mac OS X Server so you may be able to use a product that installs onto the OS of the server like Endpoint for Mac.

If the XSAN software has an ICAP scanning option you could use it with a Scan engine installed to a linux or windows PC.