eTrust Content Inspection Management Tools - Control Center

The Control Center operates as a central exchange facility. It receives changes to policy plans from the Policy Manager and data regarding objects that have been analyzed at the Gateways. The Control Center has a generic database attached to it, which stores the security plans, audit records and system parameters.

Control Center User Interface

The Control Center User Interface displays the following information:

The latest objects analyzed at the Gateway, and their access status. The status, name and type of all gateways (active or inactive). Current system administration activities, including the names of the Administrators using eTrust Content Inspection, the components used, and the time the activity was initiated.

Control Center Information

Object Information List The Object Information List can display the following details for all HTTP objects downloaded and analyzed at a Gateway: Client Name The Client Name associated with the workstation IP (i.e. workstation that requested the download), as entered in the Policy Manager.  (In the example above - Client Name is 207.232.2.208) Object Name The URL address, path and filename of the object analyzed. (Above - Object Name is javaboutique.internet.com/IconMenus/iimMSIE.jar:occolor.class) Status This field indicates whether the object was passed (i.e. executed), rejected (i.e. blocked and therefore not executed), or audited (i.e. logged in the Audit Viewer database). (Above - Eighth Object was both rejected and audited.) Date and Time This field displays the date and time when the object was analyzed at the Gateway. (Above - First Object was analyzed on 11/29/00 and the time was 10:03:13 AM)

Gateways Status List The Gateway Status List displays the following details regarding the Gateways that are set up in the security plan by the Policy Manager: Name The name of the Gateway as entered in the security plan. You may look up the corresponding IP address and location in the Gateway folder in the Policy Manager. (Above - Internet Gateway) Status This field indicates whether each of the eTrust Content Inspection Gateways is active or not. (Above - Service (NSP) Active, Terminal Active) Date and Time The date and time of the last log-on to the Gateway. (Above - 5/18/2000 12:12:11 PM)

Systems Administration Activities List This list displays the following details regarding all eTrust Content Inspection operators logged on to the eTrust Content Inspection software (NOT all the organization's users logged on to workstations). Name The name of the operator as entered in the Policy Manger. (Above - Admin) Connection This field indicates to which eTrust Content Inspection component the operator is logged on to. (Above - Policy) Date and Time This field indicates the date and time that the operator logged on to the indicated component. (Above - 5/18/2000 11:52:11 AM)