Preferences

To open the section of Control Center preferences, click Preferences in the main menu.

The control menu located in the left pane of the window, consists of the following items:

•My account.

•Interface.

•Subscription.

My Account

Using this section, you can manage the current account of the administrator of the anti-virus network (see also p. Administrators and Administrative groups).

General

You can edit the following settings, if necessary:

•Login*—administrator account login to access Dr.Web Security Control Center.

•First name, Middle name and Last name of the administrator.

•Email address associated with the account.

•Interface language used by the administrator.

•Date format, which is used by this administrator during editing settings that contain dates. The following formats are available:

▫European: DD-MM-YYYY HH:MM:SS

▫American: MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS

•Time zone—date and time of events in the interface will be displayed in accordance with the selected time zone.

•Account Description.

•To change the password, click New password at the toolbar.

The following parameters are read only:

•Identifier of the administrator account.

•Authentication type used for this account (see Authentication of Administrators):

▫Internal—based on the credentials in the Dr.Web Server database.

▫External—via external systems.

•Dates when the account was created and last modified.

•Last address. Displays the network address of the last connection under this account.

Permissions

Description of administrative rights and its editing see in the Editing Administrative Accounts and Groups section.

Click Save after you have changed all necessary parameters.

Interface

Tree Settings

Parameters of this section let you adjust the appearance of the list, and they are similar to the settings, located in the Settings of tree view option of the toolbar of the Anti-virus network item of the main menu:

•for groups:

▫All groups membership—duplicate displaying of a station in the list if a stations is a member of several groups simultaneously (only for groups under the white folder icon, see table above). If the flag is set, the station will be shown in all member groups. If the flag is cleared, the station will be shown only once in the list.

▫Show hidden groups—show all groups included in the anti-virus network. If you clear the flag, all empty groups (not containing stations) will be hidden. It may be convenient to remove extra data, for example, when there are many empty groups.

▫Show only groups with activated stations—hide empty groups, stations that have never connected to Dr.Web Server, and groups containing only such stations.

•for the Dr.Web Server clients (stations, Proxy Servers and neighbor Dr.Web Servers):

▫Show clients identifiers—show clients unique identifiers.

▫Show clients names—show clients names, if such are given.

▫Show clients addresses—show clients IP-addresses.

▫Show station servers—show names or addresses of Dr.Web Servers to which stations are connected. Relevant to the stations within Dr.Web Servers cluster.

▫Show station states severity—show severity of active stations status. At this, the color differentiation will be used for stations depending on their status (see table above). If the option is disabled, for station statuses with the and icons, the common icon will be displayed.

▫Show policy icon—show the policy icon next to the icon of the station to which the policy is assigned.

▫Show blocked stations—show stations whose access to Dr.Web Server is blocked.

•for all elements:

▫Show personal settings icon—show the marker which shows whether individual settings are present on the icons of groups and the Dr.Web Server clients: stations, Proxy Servers and neighbor Dr.Web Servers.

▫Show descriptions—show descriptions of groups and the Dr.Web Server clients: stations, Proxy Servers and neighbor Dr.Web Servers (the descriptions are set in the properties of an element).

▫Show the number of clients—show the number of the Dr.Web Server clients: stations, Proxy Servers and neighbor Dr.Web Servers for all the groups of an anti-virus network into which these clients are included.

▫Show membership rules icon—show the marker on stations icons which are added to groups automatically according to the membership rules, also on groups icons stations of which are added automatically.

Settings of clients sorting

Parameters of this section let you to change the parameter that is used for sorting and the sorting order of the Dr.Web Server clients: stations, Proxy Servers and neighbor Dr.Web Servers in the anti-virus tree, and they are similar to the settings, located in the Settings of clients sorting option of the toolbar of the Anti-virus network item of the main menu:

•To select the parameter to use for sorting, set the one of the following flags (only one parameter can be selected):

▫Identifier—sort by unique identifiers of clients.

▫Name—sort by names of clients.

▫Address—sort by network addresses of clients. Clients without network address will be displayed in random order without sorting.

▫Created on—sort by date of creation of a client account on Dr.Web Server.

▫Last connected on—sort by date of last connection of clients to Dr.Web Server.

•To select the sorting order, set the one of the following flags:

▫Sort ascending.

▫Sort descending.

Time Interval

In this section, you can specify settings of time interval to display statistics data (see Viewing Workstation Statistics section):

•In the Default interval for viewing statistics data drop-down list, specify the time interval, which is set as default for all sections of statistics data.

When you open the page for the first time, statistics will be displayed for this time interval. You can change the time interval at statistics pages directly, if necessary.

•Set the Save last interval for statistics data flag, to save the interval, specified last time at statistics sections.

If the flag is set, when you open the page for the first time, statistics will be displayed for the last period, specified at the Web browser.

If the flag is cleared, when you open the page for the first time, statistics will be displayed for the period, specified in the Default interval for viewing statistics data drop-down list.

Authorization

In the Allowed inactivity drop down list, select time period after which the user session of Control Center in a web browser is automatically terminated.

PDF Export

In this section you can specify text settings for statistic data export to the PDF format:

•In the Report font drop down list, select a font, which is used when exporting report to PDF format.

•In the Report font size field, specify the font size of general text of statistic tables, which is used when exporting report to PDF format.

Reports

In this section you can specify view settings for statistic data in the Reports section of the Control Center:

•In the Number of lines per page field, specify the maximal number of lines on one report page for paginal view of statistic.

•In the Number of characters after long lines trim field, set the maximum number of characters to remain visible after trimming long lines in log and notification tables.

•Set the Show charts flag to show charts on statistic report pages. If the flag is cleared, chart viewing is disabled.

Subscription

In this section you can manage the subscription to the Doctor Web company news. Set the flags to receive news of the following categories:

•Updates—news about Dr.Web product updates.

•Promotions—news about promotional events of Doctor Web company.

•Virus alerts—monthly reviews of virus activity and news about the most prominent threats and attacks.

•Products—news about Dr.Web products.

•Dr.Web AV-Desk—news about the Dr.Web AV-Desk service.

•Corporate news—news about Doctor Web company events.

Set the Automatic subscription to new sections flag to add new sections on the News page of the Control Center automatically.