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Control the Ability to View and Manage Properties

You can control the display of the common configuration policies that are available for centrally managed environments in the Remote Control policy group pane. You can access this from the Control Panel, Configuration, Configuration Policy, Default Computer Policy, DSM node in the DSM Explorer tree.

In some companies it makes sense to simplify the policy view because you may not want to manage some properties. For example, Remote Control offers many categories of events, and a company may not want to track some of these.

Do not manage a property by setting the relevant configuration policy to "locally managed" in the DSM Explorer. Instead, one way to control access to a property is to comment out the property in the XML file using "<!--" and "-->" in the appropriate section, as shown in the following example. This change should only be made on a manager.

Note: For more information about the remote control configuration policies, see the Configuration Policy section of the DSM Explorer Help.

Example: Exclude the Host Has Stopped Listening Event

To exclude the general event within agent policy for “A host has stopped listening for connections,” wrap the appropriate section in the rcHostEventsConfig.xml file with the left arrow, exclamation mark, double dash characters (<!--) and double dash, right arrow characters (-->):

Note: We recommend commenting out the setting rather than removing the entry.

<configuration>
<allusers>
<paramsection name="itrm">
<paramsection name="rc">
<paramsection name="events">
<paramsection name="hostlogs">
<parameter name="sendeventstomanager" value="1">
<parameterinfo name="pi_sendeventstomanager">
<attribute name="max">1</attribute>
<attribute name="min">0</attribute>
<attribute name="flags">1</attribute>
<attribute name="desc">Events (Host): Send events to the management server.</attribute>
<attribute name="type">bool</attribute>
</parameterinfo></parameter>
</paramsection>
<paramsection name="general">
<parameter name="hostunlocked" value="0">
<parameterinfo name="pi_hostunlocked">
<attribute name="max">1</attribute>
<attribute name="min">0</attribute>
<attribute name="flags">9</attribute>
<attribute name="desc">Events (Host): Raise event "A host has been unlocked".</attribute>
<attribute name="type">bool</attribute>
</parameterinfo></parameter>
<parameter name="hostlocked" value="0">
<parameterinfo name="pi_hostlocked">
<attribute name="max">1</attribute>
<attribute name="min">0</attribute>
<attribute name="flags">9</attribute>
<attribute name="desc">Events (Host): Raise event "A host has been locked".</attribute>
<attribute name="type">bool</attribute>
</parameterinfo></parameter>
<parameter name="hostrebooting" value="0">
<parameterinfo name="pi_hostrebooting">
<attribute name="max">1</attribute>
<attribute name="min">0</attribute>
<attribute name="flags">9</attribute>
<attribute name="desc">Events (Host): Raise event "A host has initiated a reboot".</attribute>
<attribute name="type">bool</attribute>
</parameterinfo></parameter>
<!-- <parameter name="hostnotlistening" value="0"> -->
<!-- <parameterinfo name="pi_hostnotlistening"> -->
<!-- <attribute name="max">1</attribute> -->
<!-- <attribute name="min">0</attribute> -->
<!-- <attribute name="flags">9</attribute> -->
<!-- <attribute name="desc">Events (Host): Raise event "A host has stopped listening for connections".</attribute> -->
<!-- <attribute name="type">bool</attribute> -->
<!-- </parameterinfo></parameter> -->
<parameter name="hostlistening" value="0">
<parameterinfo name="pi_hostlistening">
<attribute name="max">1</attribute>
<attribute name="min">0</attribute>
<attribute name="flags">9</attribute>
<attribute name="desc">Events (Host): Raise event "A host has started listening for connections".</attribute>
<attribute name="type">bool</attribute>
</parameterinfo></parameter>
<parameter name="hoststopped" value="0">
<parameterinfo name="pi_hoststopped">
<attribute name="max">1</attribute>
<attribute name="min">0</attribute>
<attribute name="flags">9</attribute>
<attribute name="desc">Events (Host): Raise event "A host has shutdown".</attribute>
<attribute name="type">bool</attribute>
</parameterinfo></parameter>
<parameter name="hoststarted" value="0">
<parameterinfo name="pi_hoststarted">
<attribute name="max">1</attribute>
<attribute name="min">0</attribute>
<attribute name="flags">9</attribute>
<attribute name="desc">Events (Host): Raise event "A host has started up".</attribute>
<attribute name="type">bool</attribute>
</parameterinfo></parameter>
<parameter name="error" value="1">
<parameterinfo name="pi_error">
<attribute name="max">1</attribute>
<attribute name="min">0</attribute>
<attribute name="flags">9</attribute>
<attribute name="desc">Events (Host): Raise event "A host error has occurred".</attribute>
<attribute name="type">bool</attribute>
</parameterinfo></parameter>
<parameter name="remotecontrolsessionstopped" value="0">
<parameterinfo name="pi_remotecontrolsessionstopped">
<attribute name="max">1</attribute>
<attribute name="min">0</attribute>
<attribute name="flags">9</attribute>
<attribute name="desc">Events (Host): Raise event "A remote control session has stopped".</attribute>
<attribute name="type">bool</attribute>
</parameterinfo></parameter>
<parameter name="remotecontrolsessionstarted" value="0">
<parameterinfo name="pi_remotecontrolsessionstarted">
<attribute name="max">1</attribute>
<attribute name="min">0</attribute>
<attribute name="flags">9</attribute>
<attribute name="desc">Events (Host): Raise event "A remote control session has started".</attribute>
<attribute name="type">bool</attribute>
</parameterinfo></parameter>
</paramsection>
<paramsection name="security">
<parameter name="securityvalidatepermissionsfailed" value="1">
<parameterinfo name="pi_securityvalidatepermissionsfailed">
<attribute name="max">1</attribute>
<attribute name="min">0</attribute>
<attribute name="flags">9</attribute>
<attribute name="desc">Events (Host): Raise event "A viewer user's request is denied".</attribute>
<attribute name="type">bool</attribute>
</parameterinfo></parameter>
<parameter name="securityvalidateuserfailed" value="1">
<parameterinfo name="pi_securityvalidateuserfailed">
<attribute name="max">1</attribute>
<attribute name="min">0</attribute>
<attribute name="flags">9</attribute>
<attribute name="desc">Events (Host): Raise event "A host-viewer login has failed".</attribute>
<attribute name="type">bool</attribute>
</parameterinfo></parameter>
</paramsection>
</paramsection>
</paramsection>
</paramsection>
</allusers>
</configuration>