About this bot
SmarshBot is an automated identity associated with Smarsh and used for capturing designated web content for communications compliance and archiving.
The primary recorded identity signal is SmarshBot. Representative HTTP identity: SmarshBot/1.0.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with Medium confidence. Identity type: observed-operator-attributed.
robots.txt behavior is not currently confirmed.
Risk classification: Safe. Recommended handling: depends.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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SmarshBotSmarshBot/1.0
Details
- Kind
- Web archiving crawler
- Family
- Smarsh
- Purpose
- Compliance web archiving
- Common Use
- regulated web-content capture, supervision, and compliance archiving
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
Verification
- Identity Type
- observed-operator-attributed
- Evidence Method
- Match the observed `SmarshBot/1.0` identity and corroborate with configured Smarsh web-archiving activity or other operator/network context.
- Detection Notes
- The current Smarsh service role is well established, but the request identity is not treated as cryptographically authenticated.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Do not rely on a robots.txt rule without verification.- Apache Rule
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "SmarshBot" bot_match- Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "SmarshBot") { set $bot_match 1; }