Management Console Update 19.0

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As part of the ongoing development of the Webroot SecureAnywhere® Global Site Manager (GSM) console, we are releasing version 19.0. This major release incorporates brand new "Global Settings" to make the management of multiple sites and customers more efficient by removing the need to manage policies individually.

NEW – Global Settings – Enables a GSM Super Admin to create policies and overrides at the GSM level, which can then be applied to any Endpoint Protection site.
NEW – Import and Export Policies & Overrides – This new feature provides the ability to import and export policies and overrides between sites at both GSM and Endpoint Protection (Site) level.NEW – UI Informational Enhancements – A number of improvements to the UI provide more relevant information to simplify administration. These include:

• Sites the current user has access to are now displayed, along with the number of sites in total which are active under the GSM console.
• Quick overview of which sites have global policies and overrides enabled or disabled.
• Visibility of the default policy for each site, along with the ability to quickly change this.
• Days remaining is visible for any “Trial” sites created, along with expiring and expired statuses for each row.

 

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1. NEW – Global Settings – This new capability dramatically reduces the maintenance overhead for GSM administrators’, as these can now all be handled from one shared location, instead of having to manually manage each individual sites policies and overrides.  [img]http://sw.nohold.net/Webroot/Images/console%2019%20image%201.png[/img] New Global Settings for faster and easier administration of multiple endpoint sites or customers. [img]http://sw.nohold.net/Webroot/Images/console%2019%20image%202.jpg[/img] Full capabilities to create and manage policies are now available at the GSM level. [img]http://sw.nohold.net/Webroot/Images/console%2019%20image%203.png[/img] When creating or editing a site, you can now select whether this site should have global policies available and select which policy to apply as the "default" policy that endpoints will inherit upon installation. [img]http://sw.nohold.net/Webroot/Images/console%2019%20image%204.jpg[/img] Full capabilities to create and manage overrides are now available at the GSM level. [img]http://sw.nohold.net/Webroot/Images/console%2019%20image%205.png[/img] When creating or editing a site, you can now select whether this site should have global overrides available.

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 NEW – Import and Export Policies & Overrides – This update applies to both the GSM and Standard consoles. Within the policies page at both GSM and Site level, you can now select an “Import” option.[list]
1. Automatic Import - by default, this is set to “auto” mode which displays a list of all policies across all sites which the logged on account has access to.
2. Select the policy you wish to import from the list, then click “Import” to transfer this into your current console.

This once again drastically reduces the maintenance overhead for any Endpoint Protection administrator, since they no longer have to manually recreate identical policies across multiple sites. Instead, you can create the policy once, then import into all sites where you wish it to be available. This is also useful at GSM level, since the GSM Super Admin can import a site level policy into the GSM console, make it global, and then instantly make it available across all sites with global policies enabled.

• Manual Import – for circumstance where an administrator wishes to import a policy from a site they do not have access to, only manual import is available.
• Select the policy you wish to import manually, then click the “Export” button. This will display a “Transfer Code” which you can then enter during an import process to import that policy.

This is extremely useful for administrators’ who may have multiple accounts under different email addresses, or who may simply wish to email their transfer code to a friend for them to import into their own site.
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Auto and Manual Import of Policies.
Override Import - under the overrides page at both GSM and Site level, you can now select an “Import” option.

• Selecting this option displays a list of all sites which the logged on account has access to.
• Simply select the site from where you wish to import all overrides and select from the various import options (overwrite existing overrides, etc.). Click “Import”. This will proceed to import all overrides from that site into your currently selected site.

Once again this proves extremely useful for administrators who wish to simply copy identical overrides from one site to another instead of manually having to create the same override for each site. For GSM Super Admins, this also means they can pull up overrides from a site, make them global, and apply them to all other sites which have the global overrides option selected.
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Simple importing of overrides.
 

NEW – UI Informational Enhancements – A number of improvements to the UI now provide relevant information that simplifies administration.
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1. Number of sites the logged on user has access to is now displayed, along with the number of sites in total which are active under the GSM console.
2. Quick overview of which sites have global policies and overrides enabled / disabled.
3. Visibility into the default policy for each site, along with the option to change this.
4. Days remaining is now visible for any “Trial” sites created, along with expiring and expired states for each row.

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