Novell ZENworks Endpoint Security Management 3.5 Manuale Utente

ZENworks® ESM 3.5

Administrator’s Manual

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The Primary function of the Management Console is the creation and dissemination of Security 
Policies. The Policy Tasks guide the administrator through creating and editing security policies 
which are used by the ZENworks Security Client to apply centrally managed security to each 
endpoint.

The Policy Tasks are:

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Active Policies - This displays a list of current policies, which can be reviewed and 
edited. Click on the policy to open it 

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Create Policies - This begins the policy creation process (see below) 

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Import Policies - This imports policies created on other Management Services (See 
“Importing Policies” on page 209) 

Clicking any of the policy tasks will minimize the tasks menu. This can be viewed again by 
clicking on the tab on the left side.

See “Creating and Distributing ESM Security Policies” on page 83 to learn about the policy tasks 
and how to create and manage security policies.

The following resources are available to help you:

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Contact Support - This link will launch a browser, and take you to our Support Contact 
Page 

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Online Technical Support - This link will launch browser, and take you to our Main 
Support Page 

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Management Console Help - Launches Help 

The Management Service Configuration window provides controls for both the ESM server 
infrastructure and controls for monitoring additional enterprise directory services. See 
“Configuration Window” on page 28 for details. This control is not available when running a 
"Stand-Alone" Management Console (see ESM Installation and Quick-Start Guide for details).

Endpoint Auditing gives you access to ESM Reporting and Alerting.

Alerts monitoring ensures that any attempts to compromise corporate security policies are 
reported in the Management Console. This allows the ESM Administrator to know of potential 
problems and take any appropriate remedial actions. The Alerts dashboard is completely