This section allows a number of aspects of Commander to be configured.
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License Details
License details for Enterprise Commander & other products from Event Zero are displayed here.
System Settings
System Settings allows you to configure the following items.
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You can configure authentication via Microsoft Active Directory and / or via locally defined users.
Active Directory Authentication
- For every domain that you wish to authenticate against install a commander Connector (Installation - Commander Connectors) on a Windows computer in that domain.
- Every Connector is capable of authenticating against the domain it is in (you may have installed Connectors for different reasons and so have domains you do not wish to authenticate against). You must select which domains to authenticate against by adding an Authentication Forest. Click Add... and select the forests you wish to authenticate against.
Only users in specific AD groups are authorised to access Enterprise Commander. Click Add... and start typing a group name to add it.
Info Group membership for users is extracted from AD by the connector if you are importing user details from AD. See the Active Directory Connector documentation for details of enabling this.
Local Users Authentication
You can create local users inside Enterprise Commander that can login. Use that section of the page to add and delete users and set their password.
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DMA Configuration Properties
DMA Configuration Properties allows you to enable or disable the reporting of Power Actions to your endpoints that are reporting to the Engine Room Server.
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Replay History on Reconnect is the time period of data that is cached locally on the endpoint by the DMA Client Agent. In the event of the endpoint being offline from the server the DMA Client Agent will then push the cached data through to the server. By default Enterprise Commander is set to only receive 4 hours of history. This can be changed if required but will impact on server performance due to the upload & processing of large quantities of cached data.
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If your Commander standalone instance is behind a load-balancer of some kind (eg bigIP), you have to manually set Client Poll. Set the secure flag (http or https) and the external hostname. The path should remain /dma/clientPoll.
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You are also able to enable or disable the Enterprise Commander Deskband. Enabling the Deskband will place an Enterprise Commander search filed onto your Windows task bar enabling direct search access to Enterprise Commander at any stage.
You are able to search on items you would find within enterprise commander as well as items as partial names, partial machine names, contact numbers and even IP Addresses. The results are displayed directly within an Enterprise Commander browser window that open when you enter your search into the Deskband.
Print Discovery Configuration
Print Discovery Configuration allows you to enable to disable the reporting of printers to the Engine Room Server, there is also an option to enable the discovery for directly attached printers (eg. USB Printers)
Notice & Alert Limits
Notice & Alert Limits allows you to set and fine tune the time periods for Enterprise Commander alerts and notices. Enterprise Commander ships with default times but these may not be an accurate reflection of what your environment considers to be best suited for its requirements.
As an example the slow boot time in seconds and the slow boot to log in time can be adjusted to take into consideration the following;
- A benchmarked average time for boot based on fleet models within your environment.
- The duration of log in scripts and machine activities that are set to run at log on.
Work Hours
Work Hours allows you to set the work hours for your organisation, this allows for more accurate time related information, such as identification of users active outside of business hours etc.
Mobile Device Management
Allows you to create secure mobile APNS Certificates for your mobile device access to Enterprise Commander.
Sites
Your site location details are entered here in order to have them appear within the Sites dashboard within Enterprise Commander. Sites are created and subnets of endpoints are allocated to the created sites in order to present accurate location based reporting.
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