General Settings Dialog

Overview

This dialog contains general KeyServer settings that will apply to all users.

OPEN General Settings dialog

Default Background Warning Actions

This section of the General Settings Dialog lets you configure what actions will occur by default when a controlled program is idle. Note that these options only apply to controlled programs, not logged or ignored programs. Also, in the License Details Window, you can configure whether programs using the license will have these idle settings, or whether to do something else for that license.

Time Synchronization

This section of the Dialog lets you configure whether users of KeyAccess can choose whether to synchronize the time on their client computer with the time on the server computer. If they cannot choose whether to synchronize, synchronization can be always on, or always off. By default, users can turn time synchronization on and off. Additionally, there is a checkbox which lets you configure whether the server is Time Zone and Daylight Savings Time Aware (off by default).

Auditing

• Reschedule Audit every ... lets you configure a time interval at which to perform audits on computers which are set to audit automatically. Repeated audits allow you to keep audit information accurate as new programs are installed and old ones are uninstalled. The default audit interval is 4 weeks. Note that you can make a particular computer stop performing repeated audits by configuring this option in the Computer Details. By doing so, you will keep the existing audit information, but stop automatic re-audits. You will still be able to see the existing audit information by right-clicking the computer and selecting Show Installs, but the standard audit reports will only report on computers set to audit.
• Throttle Network Traffic lets you configure a threshold for network traffic from audits being sent to the server. If the KeyServer begins to get more traffic than this upper bound, it will tell clients to slow down the rate at which they are sending audit data. By default, there is no throttle. Under normal circumstances, you should not need to set a throttle, since generally, clients will perform audits at various different times, and the audits will never account for very much network traffic. If however you have a situation where many clients are sending audits simultaneously, and you notice that KeyConfigure is slow to respond, you may want to set a throttle.

Notice that with the default settings, every client computer will perform an audit when it first connects to the KeyServer, as well as incremental audits every 4 weeks. If you do not want clients to perform audits automatically after they first connect, you will need to change the discovery rule for new computers. If you want audits to occur only once, but not be rescheduled automatically, you will need to remove the Reschedule Audit every ... option in this dialog.

User Privacy / Computer Privacy

This section of the Dialog lets you configure how user and computer names are recorded. By default, the real values are recorded. However, you may choose to scramble the names, which will map each name to a “nonsense” string, which will always be the same for that name. Or, you can tell KeyServer not to record names. The one thing that will always be recorded with each event is the computer ID. This cannot be changed. However, one related feature is that you can delete usage older than some configured date when you run the KSdbConsist tool. Note that if you are trying to hide computer names, you may want to disable the Computer Name as an acceptable Computer ID type (in the Computer ID Types dialog in the Admin menu) - since the computer ID will not be changed even when the privacy settings are enabled.

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