User manual INTEL IT DIRECTOR

[. . . ] Intel(R) IT Director User's Guide Table of Contents Disclaimer and Legal Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 To set up Intel IT Director: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 See Also . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Use Intel IT Director to block USB devices from accessing your computer. When you plug in a blocked USB device to your computer, Intel IT Director notifies you that you have tried to plug in a blocked device and prevents you from using that device. 23 Intel(R) IT Director User's Guide Note For Intel IT Director to block USB devices, USB blocking must be enabled. See Troubleshooting for what to do if a new device is blocked, and you think it should not be blocked. Note The icon denotes that USB Blocking either has not been configured or has stopped working. From Intel IT Director on the computer, go to My Computer > USB Blocking Policy. Under Select USB Device Types to Block, check the box next to device types you want to block. You can monitor the USB blocking feature on computers on your network from the My Network page. See Also Disabling USB Blocking USB Device Types Troubleshooting Disabling USB Blocking By default, Intel IT Director blocks the USB device types you selected to block. When you disable USB device blocking, Intel IT Director does not block any USB devices, even if you have selected devices to be blocked. To activate USB device blocking on your computer: 1. From Intel IT Director on the computer, go to My Computer > USB Blocking Policy. If USB blocking is disabled on a computer, Intel IT Director records a warning message. 24 Configuring Your Computer See Also Blocking USB Devices USB Device Types Choose the USB device types to block from My Computer > USB Blocking. Here are the device types you can block, along with examples of each: Device Type Audio device Video device Digital camera Joystick Mass storage drive Smart Card Network device Wireless controller IrDA Example Headphones, speakers Webcam Digital camera Joystick or other controller USB flash drive, mp3 player A smart card Printer, router Wi-Fi* adapter, Bluetooth* adapter Printer or camera using infrared communications A device with printing capabilities Printer Content security Personal Healthcare Heart rate monitor, blood pressure cuffs, exercise watch Some handheld computers, smartphones Personal Data Assistant See Also Blocking USB Devices: Overview Activating USB Device Blocking 25 Intel(R) IT Director User's Guide Configuring the Power-On Monitor The Power-on Monitor tracks when computers in your network are turned on. This feature helps you monitor both energy usage and computer usage. Note When a computer is in a sleep state such as standby or hibernate, Intel IT Director considers it to be powered off. Instead, it tracks computer usage, and records a violation when a computer is powered on for more than one hour outside of office hours in a given day. Intel IT Director does not send any violation for a computer turned on during office hours. Wednesday morning, a violation is recorded. Note The icon denotes that the Power-on Monitor either has not been configured or has stopped working. To set the office hours for the Power-on Monitor for a computer: 1. From Intel IT Director on the computer, go to My Computer > Power-on Monitor. See the power-on statistics and violation messages in the System Details page. See Also System Details Configuring Your Computer: Overview Monitoring Your Network: Overview 26 Troubleshooting Problem Intel IT Director fails to monitor a client computer on your network. Causes and Possible Solutions Several causes are possible: · The IP address is from a system not running Microsoft Windows* OS, such as a printer or router. For security reasons, the system times must be within 5 minutes of each other. Verify that the system time on the client computer is synchronized with the system time on the monitor computer. Here are instructions for 3 firewalls: · · · Norton 360* McAfee Total Protection* Trend Micro Internet Security* · · · · You already set the USB devices to block on a client computer, but those devices are not blocked. USB blocking may be disabled on the client computer. From Intel IT Director on the client computer, go to My Computer > USB Blocking. [. . . ] Click OK. Configuring Microsoft Windows* Small Business Server For Intel IT Director to work correctly with Windows* Small Business Server (SBS), you must configure SBS on the client computer to enable local program exceptions in Windows* Firewall. To configure SBS 2003 on a client computer with Windows XP* operating system, and SBS 2008 on both Windows XP and Windows Vista* operating systems: 1. On the left of the Server Management window, click the home page icon. Browse to Advanced Management > Group Policy Management > Forest:YourDomainName > Domains > YourDomainName > Small Business Server Windows Firewall YourServerName Policy 3. Under Administrative Templates, go to Network/Network Connections/Windows Firewall/Domain Profile. [. . . ]