AUDIT RULES SUB-Section

Usage

This sub-Section determines which features the agents shall analyse at hardware and operating system level. Here you may also create inclusion or exclusion filters for the files and folders that will be analysed during the audit.

Synexsys can support the audit of all of the PCs' hardware and file features. However, part of this information isn't considered critical (i.e. Energy management options or E:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Favorites). Therefore, excluding certain features from the analysis is advisable to optimise global performance and to avoid including audit processes that aren't useful.

IMPORTANT!

When you create a software recognition rule, the files and folders included in the rule are automatically included in the audit. This also occurs even if the filters you have created for the audit rules exclude these files or folders. Therefore, there is no need to worry about this management aspect. Synexsys takes care of it for you.

Zones

This window is divided into four panes:

Hardware / Windows

Select the groups of features that interest you. Only the information on these groups will be analysed and uploaded in the database.

 

 

Folders and files

Include all folders: If this option is active, all folders in all the disks will be analysed.

 

 

Include only the following folders: This option allows you to specify the folders that should be included or excluded from the audit process. See below.

 

 

"Include" Tab: This option allows you to specify the folders that should be included in the audit.

You may enter the folder name, such as: C:\temp. In this case, only the folder C:\temp is included.

You can also use substitution character " ? ". For instance: ?:\temp (? replaces only 1 character). In this case C:\temp, and D:\temp, ... are included.

You can also use substitution character " * ". For instance: *temp* (* replaces a set of characters). In this case, not only C:\temp and D:\temp are included. E:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files and D:\personal files\Art\Contemporary are also included.

Therefore, you should carefully determine the impact of the filters you apply.

 

 

"Exclude" Tab: This option allows you to specify the folders that should be excluded from the audit.

The same rules and remarks apply, however, remember that what is displayed in the Software tracking tab prevails over exclusions.

 

 

"Software tracking" Tab: You cannot modify any of the values in this tab. If any data is displayed, it comes from the software tracking rules that you defined in the Software tracking sub-section.

The information displayed in the "Software tracking " tab prevails over the other filters. For instance: e:\applications\myschedule\mysched.exe will always be analysed if it is present in this tab, even if E:\* is listed as in "Exclusion".

 

 

Selection assistant: Allows selecting local folders while exploring your PC.

 

 

Files

Do not include any file: If this option is active, the Synexsys agent will not search for files on the audited PC. It will nevertheless do a quantitative and qualitative statistic of the files present on its disks. Note that this statistical analysis will only be done when a file audit is processed.

 

 

Include following fields: Allows you to specify a list of files to include in the audit. You can type full and/or partial file names. For example:

synexsys.exe
synexsys.*
Syn*.exe
*.exe

 

 

Selection assistant: Allows selecting local files while exploring your PC.

 

IMPORTANT!

When you save audit rules, a file named filter.ini is created in \synexsys\server\outbox. Prior to each audit process, this file will be read and copied locally by the Synexsys agents. If the agent is unable to access the filter.ini of the Synexsys server, it will try to access the last local copy. This provides the possibility of executing temporary out of phase audits if the rules have changed.

If the local copy of file filter.ini is no longer accessible, the audit cannot be performed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last Update: 16.03.2005