Cisco Systems DOC-78-17916 manual Cisco Security Agent User Interface

Appendix A Cisco Security Agent Installation and Overview

Downloading and Installing

After installation, the agent automatically and transparently registers with CSA MC. You can see which hosts have successfully registered by clicking the Hosts link available from the Systems category in the menu bar. This displays the hosts list view. All registered host system names appear here.

The Cisco Security Agent User Interface

Note The Cisco Security Agent user interface does not run on Solaris systems.

Note If the Agent UI control rule is not present (available on Windows and Linux only) for the system group, no agent UI appears on the end user system.

To open the Cisco Security Agent user interface on Windows and Linux systems, users can double-click on the flag icon in their system trays. The user interface opens on their desktop.

As the administrator, you decide which agent UI options to provide to the end user. These options are controlled by the Agent UI control rule. Available options are as follows:

•Allow user to reset agent UI default settings—Selecting this checkbox in the Agent UI control rule causes the end user to have a product reset option available from the Start>Programs>Cisco Security Agent menu. Selecting the "Reset Cisco Security Agent" option puts all agent settings back to their original states and clears almost all other user-configured settings. This does not clear configured Firewall Settings or File Protection settings. But if these features are enabled, they are disabled as this is the default factory setting. The information entered into the edit boxes for these features is not lost.

•Allow user interaction—Selecting this checkbox in the Agent UI control rule causes the end user to have a visible and accessible agent UI, including a red flag in the system tray.

•Allow user access to agent configuration and contact information— Selecting this checkbox in the Agent UI control rule provides Status, Messages, and Contact Information features, including the ability to manually poll the MC. It also provides the User Query Responses window.

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