Description

Antivirus-Scan-engine-shows-message-The-scan-engine-is-not-ready

Symptoms

Syslog events like below are observed:

<12>1 2023-04-19T00:24:41.743Z srx-test RT_UTM - AV_FILE_NOT_SCANNED_PASSED_MT [[email protected] source-zone="Untrust" destination-zone="ExternalVpn" source-address="192.168.31.133" source-port="18088" destination-address="172.31.252.75" destination-port="80" profile-name="test" filename="ca-jnpr.crl" action="PASSED" reason="the scan engine is not ready" error-code="10" username="N/A" roles="N/A"]

 

Antivirus trace options show below logs:

Oct 10 09:19:20 09:19:20.612125:CID-0:THREAD_ID-03:LSYS_ID-00:RT:check url whitelist: (-1) url:ca-jnpr.crl

Oct 10 09:19:20 09:19:20.612127:CID-0:THREAD_ID-03:LSYS_ID-00:RT:not found

Oct 10 09:19:20 09:19:20.612129:CID-0:THREAD_ID-03:LSYS_ID-00:RT:AV: av_is_scan_required 860 app_obj 0x9035dab0 av_info 0x7fbd3326b5b0 filename ca-jnpr

Oct 10 09:19:20 09:19:20.612131:CID-0:THREAD_ID-03:LSYS_ID-00:RT:Searching in mimelist bbe11b48 (len:4)

Oct 10 09:19:20 09:19:20.612132:CID-0:THREAD_ID-03:LSYS_ID-00:RT:mime_value: text/css

Oct 10 09:19:20 09:19:20.612133:CID-0:THREAD_ID-03:LSYS_ID-00:RT:mime_value: audio/

Oct 10 09:19:20 09:19:20.612134:CID-0:THREAD_ID-03:LSYS_ID-00:RT:mime_value: video/

Oct 10 09:19:20 09:19:20.612135:CID-0:THREAD_ID-03:LSYS_ID-00:RT:mime_value: image/

Oct 10 09:19:20 09:19:20.612135:CID-0:THREAD_ID-03:LSYS_ID-00:RT:Not found

Oct 10 09:19:20 09:19:20.612136:CID-0:THREAD_ID-03:LSYS_ID-00:RT:AV: current content size:0, config maximum content size:20000K

Oct 10 09:19:20 09:19:20.612137:CID-0:THREAD_ID-03:LSYS_ID-00:RT:AV: avira_av_is_scan_required 47 Engine not ready

Solution

These messages are expected if the file being scanned has content size=0 (empty files)

 

You will be able to verify the size from the AV trace options, like below:

Oct 10 09:19:20 09:19:20.612136:CID-0:THREAD_ID-03:LSYS_ID-00:RT:AV: current content size:0, config maximum content size:20000K

Oct 10 09:19:20 09:19:20.612137:CID-0:THREAD_ID-03:LSYS_ID-00:RT:AV: avira_av_is_scan_required 47 Engine not ready

 

You can also verify from the trace options that the files are processed by the AV when the content size is not equal to 0.

Modification History

2023-11-14 : Article Created