Activate Products
Activate Products
For each Agent and computer, where the product will be used, activate the product in the Console. For every activated product the license is required. The number of available licenses and their usage you can see in Administration | Licenses | License management. If users and computers appear in Console via a synchronization of the directory service structure, you can specify, which products are automatically activated for new users and computers. For details, see Setting up synchronization. If you activate a product for a group, the product is automatically activated for all group members. For every group member the license is required. You can cancel a license or deactivate a product for certain group members.
To activate Secure Audit and encryption products for a user, a computer or groups, you must first activate audit and encryption. To activate Secure Audit, go to Product settings | Secure Audit | Audit.
Activating products
- Navigate to the User management/Computer management menu.
- 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 work 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.
Activate products for computers
To apply the permissions to a computer and affect all users, enable the product for the computer. In spite of the products and rights activated for the user, the settings of the computer take effect. The following products are activated only for computers:
- BitLocker Management
- Full Disk Encryption
- Green IT
- Inventory
- EgoSecure Antivirus
- DLP – Data at Rest
Activate products for users
If a product is activated for a user, he can use this product on any (network) computer. If the product is activated for the user, but not for the used computer, the permissions set for a user take effect. These can be either the default rights of users, group rights or individual user rights. You can grant special permissions for certain users on certain computers. For details, see Assign user to computer.