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Table Of Contents
- Symantec pcAnywhere™ Administrator's Guide
- Technical Support
- Contents
- 1. Planning a migration and upgrade strategy
- 2. Creating custom installation packages
- 3. Deploying Symantec pcAnywhere custom installations
- 4. Performing centralized management
- About centralized management
- Managing pcAnywhere hosts remotely
- Installing the pcAnywhere Host Administrator tool
- Adding the Host Administrator snap-in to MMC
- Creating a configuration group
- Adding computers to a configuration group
- Configuring administrator host and remote connection items
- Configuring a host item in pcAnywhere Host Administrator
- Distributing pcAnywhere configuration files
- Managing hosts in a configuration group
- Integrating with Microsoft Systems Management Server
- About the Microsoft Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)
- About centralized logging
- 5. Integrating pcAnywhere with directory services
- 6. Managing security in Symantec pcAnywhere
- Index
Maintaining audit trails
Event logging helps you monitor session activities and track information for
auditing purposes. You can track who connected to a host and session duration,
as well as important security information such as authentication or logon failures.
Depending on your environment, you can send information about events that
occurred during a session to a pcAnywhere generated log file, the Windows Event
Log, or a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) console. Symantec
pcAnywhere supports centralized logging, so you can archive the logs on a secure,
central server.
Symantec pcAnywhere lets you save chat logs in a local directory. Although logging
can be a useful tool, be aware that tracking some types of events can degrade
performance. You should also remember to periodically archive log files.
For more information, see the Symantec pcAnywhere User's Guide.
Implementing policy-based administration
Administrators can securely customize the look and behavior of pcAnywhere
through centralized policy-based administration. Symantec pcAnywhere supports
Group Policy in Windows 2000/2003 Server/XP/Vista/2008 Server.
Administrator rights are required to modify policy settings in Windows 2000/2003
Server/XP/Vista/2008 Server.
Implementing Group Policy in Windows 2000/2003/2008
Server/XP/Vista
You must use the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Group Policy snap-in to
administer group policy in Windows 2000/2003/2008 Server/XP/Vista. To manage
policy for a site, domain, or organizational unit, you should open Group Policy
from Active Directory, and then link the Group Policy object to the appropriate
Active Directory container. The operating system provides a software wizard to
guide you through this process.
For more information about adding the Group Policy snap-in to MMC, see the
online documentation for your operating system.
Symantec pcAnywhere defines policy settings in an administrative template. After
you add the Group Policy snap-in to MMC, you must import the pcAnywhere.adm
file into MMC.
See “Importing the pcAnywhere administrative template” on page 92.
91Managing security in Symantec pcAnywhere
Maintaining audit trails