General Settings
The settings menu gives you access to a set of configurations
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General Settings
Temporary folder
Allows you to set a temporary folder name
External IP Address or DNS Name
Set the current DNS name or Ip address of your server. DNS name is prefered as it's necessary to be used in an https context. It must be set to use the device discovery and the email notification features.
Show hidden tasks
Show the internal tasks played by the server. Don't use it as it may slow down your server.
Show device list examples
Display a set of pre-made devices list layout in the devices list. Recommended.
Pulse settings
In this section, you can set the pulse frequency. you have 2 main options:
Automatic
- you can set the pulse frequency to Reactive, Standard or Economic
Advanded
- You can set the frequency manually in second
Note: The ratio of the pulse delay to the number of devices ([Pulse delay in seconds] / [number of devices]) should not exceed 0.15 (Reactive ratio).
Inventory settings
In this section, you will set the way agents refreshes the inventory of the end point.
Automatic Inventory
The agent refresh the inventory at the selected frequency:
Once per hour, per day, per week, per month, per year, or at every start
If you do not set automatic inventory, then the agent will never refresh the inventory. inventory refresh will have to be done manually.
SSL Certificates
this section allows you to visualize the certificates you have loaded on the proVconnect server and vue their expiration date
Authentification
This section allows you to configure the way you log into proVconnect. you have 2 different ways to authenticate into proVconnect
Local authentification
- you will use a predefine user name and password (please see the create users section)
Active Directory authentification
- you can use your AD authentification to log into proVconnect. for this, you need to set the different details as well as the user profile associated to this authentification.
Note: if you select a user profile which is different from superadmin, then you will be given the list of folder to choose to associate to this profile.