Anti-Virus Network

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Select the Anti-virus network item in the main menu of Dr.Web Security Control Center.

Control Menu

To view and edit the information in the opened window, use the control menu resided in the left part of the window.

Control Menu contains the following components:

1.General

Charts

Running components

Installed components

Quarantine

Comparison of hardware and software (when a group or several stations are selected)

User sessions

Inactive stations

Hardware and software (when stations are selected)

Properties

Group membership rules (when user groups are selected)

2.Statistics

3.Configuration

Permissions

Task Scheduler

Installing components

Update Restrictions

The list of anti-virus components for operating system of selected station or by list of operating systems when a group is selected.

Detailed description of anti-virus components settings which are configured via the Control Center, is given in the Administrator Manual on managing stations for corresponding operating system.

Hierarchical List of  Anti-Virus Network

In the middle part of the window there is a hierarchical list of the anti-virus network. The list (catalog) represents the tree structure of the anti-virus network elements. The nodes in this structure are groups and workstations within these groups.

You can perform the following through the hierarchical list elements:

Left-click the name of a group or station to display the control menu (at the left part of the window) of corresponding element and brief element information on a property pane (at the right part of the window).

Left-click the icon of the group to open or to hide the contents of a group.

Left-click the icon of the station to open the properties sheet of this station.

To select several elements of the hierarchical list, press and hold CTRL or SHIFT during selection.

The appearance of the icon depends on the type and status of this element (see table below).

Icons of elements in the hierarchical list

Icon

Description

Groups. General icons

Groups always shown in the hierarchical list.

Groups are not displayed in the hierarchical list if:

for groups the Setup group visibility → Hide if empty option is set and currently groups do not contain stations,

for groups the Setup group visibility → Hide option is set and currently, in the Settings of tree view section, the Show hidden groups flag is cleared.

Workstations. General icons

Available workstations with installed anti-virus software.

The station is unavailable.

Anti-virus software on the station is uninstalled.

Station state during remote network installation of the Agent. Station is in this state from the moment of successful Agent  installation on the station till the moment of its first connection to the Server.

Additional icons

Icon of personal settings is displayed over the general stations and groups icons for which personal settings are specified (or group includes stations with personal settings).

To display the sign, select the Settings of tree view option on the toolbar and set the Show personal settings icon flag.

E.g., if online workstation with installed anti-virus software has a personal settings, its icon looks as follows: .

Icon of update error is displayed next to the general icons of stations on which errors during anti-virus software update occurred.

To display the sign, select the Settings of tree view option on the toolbar and set the Show update error icon flag.

E.g., if an error during anti-virus software update occurred on an online workstations, its icon looks as follows: .

Icon of membership rules is displayed next to the general icon of groups for which rules of automatic stations placing are set.

To display the sign, select the Settings of tree view option on the toolbar and set the Show membership rules icon flag.

E.g., if a groups that is always shown in the hierarchical list has membership rules specified, its icon looks as follows: .

Management of the anti-virus network catalog elements is carried out via the toolbar of the hierarchical list.

Toolbar

The toolbar of the hierarchical list contains the following elements:

General. Manage the general parameters of the hierarchical list. Select the corresponding item in the drop-down list:

Edit. Opens settings of the station or group in the right pane of Dr.Web Security Control Center.

Remove selected objects. Remove an items from the hierarchical list. Select the items in the list and click Remove selected objects.

Remove membership rules. Remove rules for automatic including stations to groups.

Set this group as primary. Determine the selected group as primary for all workstations in it.

Set a primary group for stations. Assign a primary group for selected workstations. If a group is selected in the hierarchical list instead of workstations, the specified primary group will be assigned to all workstations from this group.

Merge stations. Join workstations under a single account in the hierarchical list. It can be used if a workstation had been registered under several accounts.

Remove personal settings. Remove individual settings of selected objects. Settings of the parent group will be used. All workstations inside a group will also have their settings removed.

Send message to stations. Send notifications to users of workstations.

Reset password. Allows to delete the user password for access to anti-virus components settings on selected stations. The option is available only for stations under Windows OS.

Reboot station. Launch reboot station process remotely.

Uninstall Dr.Web Agent. Remove the Agents and anti-virus software from the selected workstation(s) or group(s).

Install Dr.Web Agent. Open the Network scanner for Agent installation to the selected stations. This option is enabled only if new approved stations or stations with deinstalled Agent are selected.

Restore deleted stations. Allows to restore stations deleted earlier. This option is active only if stations from the Deleted subgroup of the Status group are selected.

Mail installation files. Send installation files for stations selected in the list to email addresses, specified in this section parameters.

Add a station or a group. Add a new element of anti-virus network. Click the corresponding item in the drop-down menu:

Add station. Add a new station (see Installation Manual, p. Creation of a New User Account).

Add group. Add a new group.

Data Export:

Save in CSV format—save common data about selected stations of the anti-virus network to CSV file.

Save in HTML format—save common data about selected stations of the anti-virus network to HTML file.

Save in XML format—save common data about selected stations of the anti-virus network to XML file.

Save in PDF format—save common data about selected stations of the anti-virus network to PDF file.

The listed above options from the Data Export section export information only on selected stations and stations included into selected groups.

Export configuration—save the configuration of the selected objects of anti-virus network to a file. For this option, you will be prompt to select configuration sections to save.

Import configuration—load the configuration of the selected objects of anti-virus network from a file. For this option, you will be prompt to select the file to load the configuration and also loaded configuration sections.

Propagate configuration—propagate configuration of the selected objects to other objects of anti-virus network. For this option, you will be prompt to select objects to propagate configuration to and also propagated configuration sections.

Setup group visibility. Change the appearance of groups in the list. Select one of the following in the drop-down list (the icon of the group will change, see table above):

Hide—means that the group will not be displayed in the hierarchical list.

Hide if empty—means that the group will not be displayed if the group is empty (does not contain any workstations).

Show—means that the group will always be displayed in the hierarchical list.

Components management. Manage components on a workstation. Select the necessary action in the drop-down menu:

Update all components. Update all installed components of the anti-virus, e.g., when the Agent has not been connected to the Server for a long time, etc. (see also p. Manual Updating of Dr.Web Enterprise Security Suite Components).

Update failed components. Force synchronization of the components that failed to update.

Interrupt running components. Prescribes to stop operating of all running anti-virus components at the station.

Scan. Scan stations in one of the modes, selected in the drop-down menu:

Dr.Web Scanner. Express scan. In this mode the following objects are scanned:

main memory (RAM),

boot sectors of all disks,

autorun objects,

root directory of the boot sector,

root directory of Windows OS installation disk,

system directory of Windows OS,

My documents folder,

temporary directory of the system,

temporary directory of the user.

Dr.Web Scanner. Complete scan. In this mode all hard disks and removable disks (including the boot sectors) will be fully scanned.

Dr.Web Scanner. Custom scan. In this mode you will be able to choose files and folders to scan.

Unapproved stations. Manage newbies list—stations, which registration is not approved (see the New Stations Approval Policy section for more details). This option is active only if stations of the Newbies subgroup of the Status group are selected. When the registration is approved or access to the Server is denied, stations will be automatically removed from the Newbies preinstalled group.

Approve selected stations and set a primary group. Prescribes to confirm access of the station to the Server and to set a primary group from the offered list.

Cancel action specified to execute on connect. Prescribes to cancel the action on unapproved stations which was specified earlier to execute at the moment when the station connects to the Server.

Reject selected stations. Prescribes to forbid access of the station to the Server.

Settings of tree view. Adjust the appearance of the anti-virus network tree. To enable parameter, set the corresponding flags in the drop-down menu:

for groups:

All groups membership—duplicate displaying of a station in the list if a stations is a member of several groups simultaneously (only for groups under the white folder icon, see Table above). If the flag is set, the station will be shown in all member groups. If the flag is cleared, the station will be shown only once in the list.

Show hidden groups—show all groups included in the anti-virus network. If you clear the flag, all empty groups (not containing stations) will be hidden. It may be convenient to remove extra data, for example, when there are many empty groups.

for stations:

Show station ID—show station unique identifiers in the hierarchical list.

Show station names—show station names in the hierarchical list, if such are given.

You cannot disable displaying both identifiers and names of stations at the same time. One of the Show station ID and Show station names parameters will be always selected.

Show station addresses—show station IP-addresses in the hierarchical list.

Show station servers—show names or addresses of Dr.Web Servers to which stations are connected.

Show update error icon—show the marker on icon of workstations the last update of which is failed.

for all elements:

Show personal settings icon—show the marker on icon of workstations and groups which shows whether individual settings are present.

Show descriptions—show group and station descriptions (the descriptions are set in the properties of an element).

Show the number of stations—show the number of stations for all groups of anti-virus network.

Show membership rules icon—show the marker on stations icons which are added to groups automatically according to the membership rules, also on groups icons in which stations are added automatically.

Settings of stations sorting. Allows to change the parameter that is used for sorting and the sorting order of stations in the anti-virus tree.

To select the parameter to use for sorting, set the one of the following flags (only one parameter can be selected):

Identifier—sort by unique identifiers of stations.

Name—sort by names of stations.

Address—sort by network addresses of stations. Stations without network address will be displayed in random order without sorting.

Creation date—sort by date of creation of a station account on the Server.

To select the sorting order, set the one of the following flags:

Sort ascending.

Sort descending.

The Settings of tree view and Settings of stations sorting sections are interdepent:

If you select the sorting parameter in the Settings of stations sorting section, displaying of this parameter automatically enables in the Settings of tree view section if it was disabled.

If in the Settings of tree view section, you disable the displaying of a parameter that is selected for sorting in the Settings of stations sorting section, when sorting by this parameter is automatically switched to sorting by name of a station. If displaying of station names is disabled, then sorting is switched to station identifier (name and identifier cannot be disabled at the same time).

Property Pane

The property pane shows the properties and settings of workstations.

To display the property pane

1.Select the name of a station or a group in the hierarchical list.

2.A pane with properties of selected workstation or group opens in the right pane of Dr.Web Security Control Center. Detailed description of these settings is given in the Editing Groups and Station Properties.