Internet Monitoring Software
The computer on which you install Pearl Echo Server Software must
have an IP address that is visible to managed workstations. When
you run Pearl Echo for the first time, the Setup Wizard will ask
you the IP address of your server and a service port number.
This IP address and port number will also be used during your automated workstation installations. If you would like to monitor users that roam beyond the perimeter of your private network, enter the Public IP or Fully Qualified Domain Name of your Pearl Echo Server.
Pearl Echo’s Mobility Monitor™ works with a Firewall or NAT device through a specified group of ports. Pearl Echo workstations establish an initial connection with the Pearl Echo Server on a Control Port (Server Port Number). Additional command and control communications occur on three supplemental IP ports. The Server Port Number (e.g. 58000) and three additional IP ports (e.g. 58001, 58002 and 58003) will need to be opened for direct pass-thru on your Firewall device.
Example
Public IP: Server Port Number + 0 «-» Private IP: Server Port Number + 0
Public IP: Server Port Number + 1 «-» Private IP: Server Port Number + 1
Public IP: Server Port Number + 2 «-» Private IP: Server Port Number + 2
Public IP: Server Port Number + 3 «-» Private IP: Server Port Number + 3
A control profile is defined by your server's available User and Group names. When Pearl Echo Server Software is installed on a machine that is part of a Domain using the Active Directory Service, Pearl Echo will access and display the available User and Group names from the Active Directory database. If Active Directory Service is not available, Pearl Echo will access and display the available User and Group names from the server on which it is installed. If you have not installed the Pearl Echo Server software on a Windows server, you can manually create the User names of profiles that you would like to manage.
When a managed User attempts to access the Internet, their activity is governed by a Profile’s configuration settings. Pearl Echo first looks for a matching User profile. If no matching User profile is found, Pearl Echo looks for a Group profile to which the User belongs. If no matching Group profiles are found, Pearl Echo uses the settings defined by your Default profile. If a User belongs to multiple groups, Pearl Echo selects the first matching Group (alphabetically) to govern Internet access.
Security levels are established by selecting the appropriate button under each Internet category in conjunction with entries in the Profile's Allow and Block Control Lists.
You can have Pearl Echo block or audit objectionable words and phrases in all segments of the Internet by selecting "Block/Audit content containing restricted Words & Phrases." With the Block option set, Pearl Echo will allow all Internet activity except for content containing words or phrases defined in the Profile's Words & Phrases Control list. The Words & Phrases List applies to all Web, Ftp, E-mail, Chat, and News content.
You can also stop users within a Profile from accessing secure Web sites by selecting “Block secure site access (https).” Pearl Echo logs
You can block access to Web sites based on categories of content in the Echo•Filters tab of the Profile window. Echo•Filters is Pearl Software’s comprehensive web URL filtering database, designed to simplify the administration of Internet use. Using the Echo•Filters module, administrators can choose from over forty categories that they wish to block as well as run reports on users accessing web sites in these categories.
The optional Echo•Filters URL module allows administrators to set specific access rules to Web pages based on the pages’ categorized content. Automatic updates to the URL database are done four times an hour as our proprietary search algorithms scour over 1.6 terabytes of Web content each month looking for inappropriate or harmful content including malicious sites that are typically the genesis of most malware applications that infect end-user devices. Don't fight malware after its already made it to the desktop. When Pearl Software scans a site we also download and check for viruses in
setup files, zip files and executable files. If viruses are found, the site is added to the Echo•Filters
Malware category to prevent a seemingly harmless site from launching a drive-by install of malicious code or providing a fake hardware driver.
Pearl Software’s Web filtering incorporates automated and configurable category lists (Echo•Filters), custom white and black URL lists, contextual analysis of Web page content, keyword and phrase analysis and support of existing labeling approaches. This blending produces a powerful and accurate approach to filtering Web content on the Enterprise’s network. It is Pearl Software’s view that in any approach taken to manage Web content, end-users should have access to how sites are categorized, have the ability to customize filter modes and be able to immediately override and update blocked material.
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Configuration Overview - Echo•Suite