Activate Products
Activating products
For each Agent and computer, where a product will be used, you must activate the product in the Console. For each activated product you need a license. You can see the number of available and used licenses under Administration | Licenses | License management.
Activating products to objects
- To apply permissions to a computer and affect all its users, activate the product for the computer.
- Regardless of the products and rights enabled for the user, the settings for the computer take effect.
- To allow a user to use the product on any (network) computer, enable the product for the user only.
- The permissions set for the user are valid. These can be either the default rights of users, group rights or individual user rights.
- You can additionally assign special permissions for a user on a certain computer. For details, see: Assigning user to computer
The following table gives an overview of products that can be activated to objects.
| Activated only for computers | Activated only for users | Activated on users and on computers |
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Activating products
Activating Secure Audit and Encryption. To activate Secure Audit for users, computers or groups, enable the secure audit functionality first under Product settings | Audit | Secure Audit. To activate encryption products for users, computers or groups, enable encryption under Product settings | Encryption | Encryption options.
- Go to User management/Computer management.
- In the Directory service structure area, select the OU/directory to which the user/computer or the group belongs.
- The objects contained there appear in the User management/Computer management area.
- Right-click the object, for which you want to activate products.
- In the context menu, select Activate/deactivate products | [product name].
- If you select Activate all, all the available products are activated for the object.
- In the Active product column, the shortcuts of products activated for the object are shown.
Activating products for all group members at once
- To automatically activate a product for all members or a group, activate the product for the group.
- For each group member a license is required. You can deactivate the product for individual group members.
Automatically activate products for new directory objects
If users and computers appear in the directory service structure via a synchronization, you can specify which products to automatically activate for new users and computers and whether product activation must depend on groups. For details, see: Setting up synchronization