3.3.3. Preferences

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Select the Preferences item in the main menu of Dr.Web Control Center.

The control menu consists of the following items:

◆My account.

◆Interface.

My Account

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

You can edit the following settings, if necessary:

◆Administrator account Login for Dr.Web Control Center access.

◆Set the ReadOnly flag for administrator's rights limitation.

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

◆Language of the interface 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

◆Account Description.

◆Set the Can manage a limited number of groups flag to set groups access for the groups administrator.

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

The following parameters are read only:

◆Dates of creation and last modification of the account.

◆Status. Displays the network address of the last connection under this account.

Click Save after you have changed all necessary parameters.

For read only accounts only the following fields can be edited:

◆Interface language.

◆Description.

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 option of the toolbar of the Network item of the main menu.

◆for groups:

•All groups membership – show a station in all groups it is a member of (only for groups under the white folder icon, see Table in previous paragraph). 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 in the top white folder.

•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.

◆for stations:

•Show station ID – show unique identifiers of stations in the hierarchical list.

•Show station name – show names of stations in the hierarchical list, if such are given.

•Show station address – show IP-addresses of stations in the hierarchical list.

•Show station server – show names or addresses of Enterprise Servers to which stations are connected.

◆for all elements:

•Display personal settings – enables/disables marker on icon of workstations and groups which shows whether individual settings are present.

•Show descriptions – enables/disables showing of groups and stations descriptions (the descriptions are set in the properties of an element).

Network scanner

The settings of this section let you configure the default parameters of Network Scanner.

To launch the Network scanner, select Administration item in the main menu. In control menu (pane on the left), select Network scanner.

Specify the following parameters of Network scanner:

1.In the Networks field specify networks in the following format:

◆with a hyphen (for example, 10.4.0.1-10.4.0.10)

◆separated by a comma with a whitespace

(for example, 10.4.0.1-10.4.0.10, 10.4.0.35-10.4.0.90)

◆with a network prefix (for example, 10.4.0.0/24).

2.Change Port and Timeout parameters, if necessary.

3.Click Save to save these parameters as default. After that, when you use the Network scanner, this parameters will be set automatically.

Time Interval

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

◆In the Default interval for 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 statistics data drop-down list.

Authorization

Set the Automatic authorization flag to allow automatic authorization for all Control Centers with the same administrator's login and password in the current browser.

After setting this flag, login and password specified by administrator at next logon in the Control Center, will be saved via the Dr.Web Browser-Plugin.

Further, for any Control Center in this web browser, authorization will be proceeded automatically, if the user with these login and password is registered at the Server. If the login and password do not much (e.g., such user is not registered or the user with this name has the different password), the standard Dr.Web Control Center authorization window will be given.