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ProtectionServices Settings

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The ProtectionServices settings allow you to enable and disable protection services and set the aging period for quarantined files. Select a setting from the table below to go to the edit methods Trellix supports.

Setting Key

Default

Supported Edit Methods

Web UI

CLI

API

enable

true

No

Yes

Yes

age_to_purge

90

Yes

Yes

Yes

The ProtectionServices settings must be enclosed in braces and listed within quotation marks ("). See the example below.

"ProtectionServices": {

"enable": true,

age_to_purge" : 90,

},