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Gateway Configuration
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usernames from “Unmanaged Hosts” to the “All Hosts” group
. This automatically
lists any newly discovered users of Host computers to the
All Hosts
folder.

Under
Status updates for managed Hosts
, enter a time period in minutes (default = 30
minutes) for the frequency with which the Gateway should check the status of
connections to managed Hosts. The time should be increased if the Gateway is
managing a large number of Hosts (e.g. 300 or more).

Check
Delete Hosts with last status older than
to enable automatic cleanup of stale
Host entries. The Gateway periodically checks the status of connections to managed
Hosts (see above). The Gateway records time of each successful status report. Hosts
that don't have successful status reports within the time period specified here (default =
120 days) will automatically be deleted from the Gateway database. This includes Hosts
with stale status time stamps in both the Managed Host and Unmanaged Host lists.
NOTE: If you configure many Host computers to report to your Gateway, make sure your
license supports the addition of more managed Host computers.
Auditing tab
The PC-Duo Gateway auditing feature creates log entries for the following events:

PC-Duo Gateway startup and shutdown

Polling and discovery of new Host computers

Attempts to update Host computer status (either from the PC-Duo Gateway to the
Host computer or from the Host computer to the PC-Duo Gateway)

Connections and disconnections

Attempts to access Hosts managed by the PC-Duo Gateway, including which
services, such as remote control or file transfer, were requested
Events can be logged to the System Event Viewer and/or to a .
CSV
file. If you log events
to the System Event Viewer, the event information contains only the event number and
summary information. If you log events to a .
CSV
file, the .
CSV
file provides much more
detailed information for each event. The .
CSV
file is named using the following format:
MACHINE-Gateway-YYYY-MM-DD-HH.CSV
, where
MACHINE
is the machine name of
the computer on which the PC-Duo Gateway is running, and
YYYY-MM-DD-HH
is the date
and time of the last log file rollover period. You can use Microsoft Excel to view and print
the audit log file.
For each logged event, the audit log file contains the following information:
Audit Log Column Descriptions
Column
Column
Header
Description
1 Date
Date and time of the event recorded
using the format:
YYYY/MM/DD
HH:MM:SS
.
2 ms Milliseconds part of date/time.