Computer Details Window

Concept

The computer details window displays everything that is known about a particular computer. By customizing columns in the Computers window (right click in its window header area), you can display most of the information from the Detail window's Information and Audit panes in tabular form in the Computers window itself. See the Computers Window Documentation for more general information about computers.

Settings Pane

The Settings pane shows the most basic information about how KeyServer identifies and treats this computer. The Login type affects whether the client can login to the server, and how a seat is allocated for it. If a date is shown next to the Login type, this shows the date and time at which the server seat for this client will be revoked if there is no further activity on the client computer. Next the Computer ID is shown. The Computer ID is assigned by KeyServer, according to the settings in Computer ID Types in the Admin menu. The version of KeyAccess is shown, as well as the Division which has been assigned to this computer, if any.

Information Pane

This pane shows hardware information about the computer, such as the Computer Name and the Last Address the computer used when connecting to KeyServer. If you hold the cursor over some of these properties, you may see additional information. For example, holding the cursor over the MAC address will reveal information about what type of interface it is (e.g. Gigabit Ethernet), and will show any additional MAC addresses which have been identified on the client. Note that version 6.2 of KeyAccess may be required in order for the client to collect some hardware properties, since hardware information has been greatly expanded in version 6.2 of K2. Also note that clients older than 6.0.2.8 will only send hardware information when performing a software audit.

Audit Pane

This pane shows information about software audits from the computer.

• The Automatically Audit This Computer checkbox controls whether the client will perform incremental audits according to the global audit interval, which is displayed to the right of the text field.
• The Base Audit date is used by some reports to distinguish software which was present in the baseline audit from newly installed or uninstalled software. By default, this field is set to the time of the first audit on the computer. However, it can be changed manually in order to reset the base audit date.
• Next, the date and time of the Last Audit is displayed.
• To the right of this field is a button labeled Show, which will open a window showing all programs which were found on the computer (if an audit was performed).
• Next is a field showing when the next audit will be attempted.
• To the right is a button labeled Now, which will set the date field to ASAP and attempt to reach the computer and request an audit.

Licenses Pane

This pane contains one item - a list of licenses which this computer currently holds, or in some cases simply has used. Node Locked and Lease Licenses are listed in bold, and these licenses are currently allocated to the computer. Licenses which are not in bold are Site or Floating licenses, and these have been used on the computer, but are not necessarily currently in use (and therefore not necessarily allocated). Site or Floating licenses which have not been used on the computer for over 60 days are listed in italics.

Since an administrator can add and delete computers from node lists for licenses, this list may show licenses which the computer has never actually used (in which case the Last Usage column will show the time at which the administrator manually added the computer to the node list).

Also note that licenses can be dragged directly from the licenses window into this list in order to add the computer to the node list for the license. Likewise, licenses can be deleted from this list, deleting the computer from the node list for the license. In the case of a Node Locked or Lease License, deleting the license from the list will also revoke it, allowing a different computer to then use that license if necessary.

Groups Pane

This pane contains a list of groups which the computer belongs to as a member of the node list for the group. That is, the computer may be able to match a group based on location or filter definitions associated with the group, but that group won't be listed in the Groups pane of the computer details, because the computer isn't explicitly defined in the node list of the group.

Asset Pane

This pane allows you to view and configure custom fields for each computer. They are part of the internal KSComputers table which can be accessed through ksODBC. They can be automatically populated from the client, if it finds values on the local computer. Windows KeyAccess looks in the registry in the directory:

    HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\KeyAccess\Settings\options

with keys assetID, assetLocation, and assetOwner. Mac KeyAccess looks for the same property names in:

    /Library/Preferences/com.sassafras.KeyAccess.plist

So one way to set these values on a Mac is using the command line:

    sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.sassafras.KeyAccess assetID my_id

However, you can also manually enter values in KeyConfigure, in the Asset ID, Location, and Owner fields. If you enter a value in any of these fields and save the change, the Confirmed field will automatically be filled in with the current date and time, and the Confirmed By field will be filled in with the KeyServer account name which you are logged into KeyConfigure with. As long as no clients have registry/plist entries for these values, the manually entered data will remain as is. However, if clients have registry entries, the values will get overwritten with the values from the client when it next logs in. So if you are trying to force a manual change, you should check the “Locked” checkbox - this will prevent any automatic changes originating from the client.

Notes Pane

This pane contains a single item, which is a free-form text field. You can use it for any information you want. It can be seen here in the KeyConfigure interface, and can also be used in reports.

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