User Administration

User Administration is a tool of StatWin that is intended to provide specific program reaction on specific action made by user of computer where Client is installed.

Example: if user launches specific process (program), then StatWin ends this specific process.

In other words, use User Administration to set user permissions to perform specific actions.

Computer and Employee Monitoring - User Administration

After you select Client (group of Clients), click Add button to create necessary number of user records, for which specific reactions on certain events will be set. If you select All clients value then the same user record will be created for each Client. Click Delete button to delete user record. Click Edit button to change name of created user record and to set user access rights.

Name of created user record must match Windows account name.

User Access Rights

For selected user apply Add button to add new permission record about right to perform specific actions. Click Edit button to change name of created record and to set specific reaction to specified action.

Click pointing arrow to set permission sequence.

Edit User Access Rights

This window includes two main sections: Event and Reaction.

Possible types of event:

Click respective reference to see detailed information about event and possible StatWin reactions to this event.

How to use User Administration tool

Follow the rules while using User Administration tool:

  • Permission sequence does matter
  • If reaction is Nothing, then all the following permissions for this event are not taken into account

Those rules provide flexible control of permissions.

Example: it is necessary to forbid launching any file (program) from CD-ROM, except for setup.exe file.
Implementation:

  1. Add new permission record for user, for instance, Resource Name1
  2. Set value E:\setup.exe (where E - CD-ROM) for Path field of Process Start event
  3. Select reaction type Nothing, i.e. permit launching file
  4. Add new permission record, for instance, Resource Name2
  5. Set value E:\ (where E - CD-ROM) for Path field of Process Start event
  6. Select reaction type End Process (choose either End Process or End Task), i.e. forbid launching any file

This way you can create sets of access rights for any user.

Messages and notifications

Event section contains the fields:

  • Message - if this box is checked, then field for entering message is enabled. This message will be displayed on Client.
  • Send notification to server - if this box is checked, then notification about occurred event on Client will be sent to Server. This notification will be shown in the window of Notification Viewer tool of StatWin and will be written to log file swservermessage.log that is located in installation folder of StatWin. See more in Notification Viewer section.

Reaction section contains the fields:

  • Message - if this box is checked, then field for entering message about reaction on event is enabled. This message will be displayed on Client in time interval after event occurs. Enter In field to set time interval.
  • Send notification to server - if this box is checked, then notification about reaction on occurred event on Client will be sent to Server. This notification will be shown in the window of Notification Viewer tool of StatWin and will be written to log file swservermessage.log that is located in installation folder of StatWin. See more in Notification Viewer section.

Note 1: Server name (or IP address) is set in Server section.

Note 2: settings, made in User Administration tool, begin to apply at next Windows startup on Client.