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Hosts

Description

Host screen let administrator manage static IP address assigned to any host. Dynamic IP addresses are automatically managed by Soffid ESSO.

Search Types

You can search for groups created in the system by applying different ways of searching: 

Quick

This option allows quick search by fields that have been defined in the application metadata.

Basic

This is the default option. It provides some default search criteria, but other criteria can be added from the add criteria option. 

Each search criterion will have different search forms depending on the type of data in the particular field. For example, a text field provide four different options to search, "Contains", "Start with", "End with" and "Equals", a date field provide the date "Since" and date "Until".

Each criterion will be added to the previous ones.

Advanced

This option allows an advanced search system using the SCIM standard. 

You can access to SCIM Chapter for more information

Screen overview

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Custom attributes

Basics

On the basic host tab, you can view all the host attributes. It is allowed to add new host,  update or delete existing hosts.

  • Name: host name.
  • Description: location, owner and whatever other information you want.
  • Network: to which it belongs
  • DHCP server parameters: used by the DHCP agent in order to generate DHCP configuration files.
  • IP Address: host IP
  • Operating system: used by the Active Directory agent in order to know if this host must be have an Active Directory host account. Using this functionality, no operator needs to be authorized to add or remove hosts on Active Directory. Soffid will do it for them. More and more, whenever this hosts is left off its IP address, the host account will be removed from Active Directory. This behavior can, of course, be customized.
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  • Shared folders server: if enabled, it is allowed to share folders.
  • MAC Address: used by the DHCP agent in order to generate DHCP configuration files.
  • Alias
  • Shared printer server:
  • Dynamic IP
  • Serial number
  • Last connection

Access Control

On the access control tab, you can delegate the host management.

If you add an user authorization, you will allow the user to execute any task as local administrator on this server or workstation. This feature requires the Soffid ESSO to be installed in the target host.

To add an user authorization you can click the button with the add symbol (+), then select the user and expiration date and finally apply changes.

It is also allowed to delete one or more user authorizations, you can do it from the entitlement details or by selecting one or more records from the list and clicking the button with the subtraction symbol (-).

Additionally you can download a CSV file with the accesses control data and you can also upload a CSV file to add user authorizations, modify or delete user authorizations.

You also, can view the adminitrator password.

Sessions

On the sessions tab, you can view the information about the last connection of a user to this host. Shows data about the user, server, client, port used and date of connection.

You can download a CSV file with the user sessions data.

Actions

Host query

Query Allows to query host through different search systems, Quick, Basic and Advanced.
Add or remove columns Allows to show and hide columns in the table.
Add new Allows to create a new host.
Delete Allows to delete oner or more hosts.
Import Allows to upload a csv file to add, update or delete hosts.
Download CSV file Allows to download a csv file with the hosts information.

Host detail

Apply changes Allows to create a new host or to update thean dataexist host.
Delete Allows to delete the host.
Assign free IP Address Allows to assign a free IP address.
View password Shows the administrator password.
Access control
Add new Allows to add a new user to the access control.
Import Allows to upload a csv file to add, update or delete user.
Download CSV file Allows to download a csv file with the access control information
View password Shows the administrator password.
Sessions
Download CSV file Allows to download a csv file with the sessions information

 

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