Status view

Use the Status sub-tab to determine the status of all deployment operations performed on your network targets. For each target computer, information displayed shows:

Status sub-tab

Feature Description

This section lists:

  • The operational status of GFI EndPointSecurity management console service.
  • The user account under which the GFI EndPointSecurity service is running.
  • The time when the service was last started.

This section lists:

  • The operational status of the database server currently used by GFI EndPointSecurity .
  • The name or IP address of the database server currently used by GFI EndPointSecurity.
  • The name of the database where GFI EndPointSecurity is archiving events.

To modify any of the current database settings, click Configure database…. This launches the Database Backend dialog. For more information refer to Managing the Database Backend.

This section lists:

  • The operational status of the alerting server currently used by GFI EndPointSecurity.
  • The name or IP address of the alerting server currently used by GFI EndPointSecurity.

To modify any of the current alerts related settings, click Configure alerting …. This launches the Alerting Options dialog. For more information refer to Configuring alerts.

This section graphically represents all agents deployed on network computers, differentiating between those currently online and offline.

This selection lists:

To deploy pending agents:

  1. Select one or more computers from Agents’ Status.
  2. Right-click the selected computers and select Deploy selected agent(s) or Schedule deployment for selected agent(s)….
  3. Click OK.

Note

If a target computer is offline, deployment is differed by an hour. GFI EndPointSecurity tries to deploy that policy every hour, until the target computer is back online.

Note

Each agent sends its online status to GFI EndPointSecurity at regular intervals. If this data is not received by the main application, the agent is considered to be offline.