F-SECURE POLICY MANAGER 7.0 -, Administrator'S Manual

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Using F-Secure Policy Manager Console
6.10.1 Connection-Specific Preferences
To edit these, select Preferences from the Tools menu. Only the current
connection object is affected.
Tab Setting Meaning
Communication Polling Periods Polling periods for different package types. You can select or
clear the check boxes to enable or disable the polling of a
specific package type. Select the Disable All Polling check
box if you want to always use manual refresh operations
instead of automatic polling.
Host connection
status Controls when hosts are considered disconnected from
F-Secure Policy Manager. All hosts that haven't contacted
Policy Manager Server within the defined interval are
considered disconnected. The disconnected hosts will have a
notification icon in the domain tree and they will appear in the
Disconnected Hosts list in the Domain status view. The
domain tree notification icons can be switched off from
Advanced Options . Note that it's possible to defined shorted
than one day interval by simply typing in a floating point
number in the setting field. For example, with a value of "0.5"
all hosts that haven't contacted the server within 12 hours are
considered disconnected. Values less than one day are
normally useful only for troubleshooting purposes, because in
a typical environment some hosts are naturally disconnected
from the server every now and then. For example, laptop
computers may not be able to access the server daily, but in
most cases this is perfectly acceptable behavior.
Advanced
communication
options Status Cache You can adjust the number of hosts for which F-Secure Policy
Manager Console caches status information.