Question How to disable Warden

[Erwan]

Server operating system version

Almalinux

Plesk version and microupdate number

18.0.51

Hi all,

We installed the Warden extension while doing a migration..
Bad idea. Too many process...

How to temporarily stop Warden to relieve the server?
I try:
systemctl disable clamd
systemctl stop clamd

Failed to disable unit: Unit file clamd.service does not exist.
Failed to stop clamd.service: Unit clamd.service not loaded.

Plesk web interface can't load... I can only user command line.

 

[Kaspar]

According to the information on How can I check the status of ClamAV and fix any problems? - Knowledgebase - Danami you can use systemctl stop clamd@scan to stop ClamAV. This only stops the ClamAV deamon, not the entire Warden extension.

 

[Erwan]

Thank you.

 

[danami]

Just a follow up to this. If you want to disable Amavis temporarily without having to uninstall Warden you can uncheck the SMTP milter and Non-SMTPD_Milter check boxes under Warden -> Settings -> Milter Settings. This will disable any scanning from Amavis and ClamAV. Here is our KB article for it:

How can I remove the amavisd-milter from the Postfix config for debugging purposes without having to uninstall Warden? - Knowledgebase - Danami

 

[danami]

It's not recommended to just stop the ClamAV daemon because Amavis will just fall back to using the ClamAV binary instead which will actually cause more server load (clamav signatures need to be loaded into memory with every email scanned with the binary). Admins can disable the fallback backup scanner under Warden -> Settings -> Content Filter Settings -> Scanner Settings -> Set the Scanner backup template to none.