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1. Edit report s Report UUID e62111c7 0f83 465c 9252 s86e03dle7c32 Report owner admin N A N A Fields to edit C3 BIOS DATE 09 16 05 CD BIOS VENDOR FUJITSU Phoenix Technologies L Add field to be edited BIOS DATE has been changed to 1 2 2013 and BIOS VENDOR to Example Company Fields to edit 9 BIOS DATE 1 2 2003 OCB 9 BIOS VENDOR Example Company 0 Add field to be edited z Cancel Several buttons are available e 7 Removes the field from the edit report view any changes which have not been updated will be lost GER WW Gives information about the selected field Returns the field s original value The BIOS DATE field would revert from 1 2 2003 gt 09 16 05 Press the Update button to update the report with the new changes or Cancel to cancel your actions ue d blancco 45 90 7 15 2 Editing several reports When clicking the Edit button the following window will open Edit report s Fields to edit Cancel In the following picture the BIOS DATE and BIOS VENDOR fields have been chosen for editing Edit report s Fields to edit 9 BIOS DATE 9 BIOS VENDOR Add field to be edited Writing something in these fields and then pressing Update will change the value of the selected field s in all chosen reports CP x Removes the field from the edit report view any changes which have not been updated will be lost
2. Flash reports 9 P MIC MSI FUJIT Compari Hewle A Degausser reports TESS Top 5 system manufacturers Erasure statistics Top 5 system manufacturers Amount MICRO STAR INTERNATIONAL CO LTD 63 75 MSI FUJITSU SIEMENS Compaq Hewlett Packard Top 5 processor models Top 5 system manufacturers Reports statistics Erasure statistics License consumption statistics System Manufacturers chart Report statistics chart Hee Bde SS blancco 12 admin Description Displays the top lists of processors and the amount of reports Displays the top lists of processors and the amount of reports Displays the amount of reports received in the BMC imported exported deleted to from the BMC for each user Displays the amount of successful failed erasures and erasures completed with exceptions for each user Displays the amount of licenses consumed Displays the statistics of system manufacturers graphically Displays the erasure statistics graphically 51 90 6 USER 8 LICENSING TAB This tab is used to manage users user roles and licenses Buttons on the left side are used to list users roles and licenses An example of managing users licenses and groups can be found in the Appendix 8 1 Users This view is used for managing users and groups The list shows the following information on each user and group Group name of the group User login name and the name
3. REPORT FORMAT XML D REPORT MODE Original values E SS blancco 40 90 7 10 Export all reports It is possible to export all reports of the currently selected view Click the Export all button The following dialog will open Export all reports You have selected to export 100 reports from the selected view and filters This action may take some time to complete Are you really sure that you want to proceed If not click the Cancel button Otherwise select the report and export options EXPORT TO MULTIPLE FILES REPORTS FILE Exporting all reports from the currently selected view might take some time to complete depending on the amount of reports The export all action will run in the background and a notification will appear in the notification area once the action has completed See the Notification area section for more details Export all reports will produce a ZIP file containing the exported reports 7 10 1 Report options The format of the report can be selected Available formats are CSV PDF and XML Additional options are available when exporting reports as CSV see the Export reports in CSV format section for more details If the report mode has been set to Original reports the original version of the reports will be exported even if they have been edited If the mode has been set to Edited reports then the edited version will be exported 7 10 2 Export options Sever
4. a value between 1 and 100 See the Erasure verification section of the Appendix for more details Hee Bde SS blancco 34 90 Click the Send command button when all options are selected The start erasure command will be sent to the machine and the erasure will start Please note there is no support for individual disk or partition erasures 6 1 1 2 Pause erasure In order to pause an ongoing erasure select the ongoing erasure click on Control erasures and then select Pause erasure Confirm by clicking Send command The erasure will be paused 6 1 1 3 Cancel erasure In order to cancel an ongoing erasure select the ongoing erasure click on Control erasures and then select Cancel erasure Confirm by clicking Send command The erasure will be paused 6 1 1 4 Resume erasure In order to resume a paused erasure select the ongoing erasure click on Control erasures and then select Resume erasure Confirm by clicking Send command The erasure will be resumed 6 1 2 Report fetching After the erasure has finished an erasure report can be fetched from the erased machine Select the finished erasure and click on Fetch reports The erasure report will be fetched from the erased machine and can be browsed from the Reporting screen 6 2 Managing Legacy client erasures Legacy clients erasures can be managed from this screen The Erasure status op
5. button In the Print reports dialog clicking the Print button will open the browser s printing options 7 14 Delete reports To delete report s select the report s and click the Delete button A confirmation popup shown below will be displayed By clicking Ok the selected report s will be deleted from the Blancco Management Console Note It will not be possible to recover deleted reports Delete selected reports Are you sure you want to delete the selected reports ue SS blancco 43 90 7 15 Edit report s When the Edit button is clicked after one or more reports have been selected the following window appears Edit report s Report UUID e62111c7 0f83 465c 9252 86e03dle7c32 Report owner admin N A N A Fields to edit Add field to be edited Cancel Clicking on the Add field to be edited will open a dropdown list which has all the editable values of the reports listed this field can be searched by typing a term in the search box Edit report s lt Fields to edit Add field to be edited q BIOS date BIOS serial BIOS vendor BIOS version Business location Business name CPU cache size CPU dmispeed ue SS blancco 44 90 7 15 1 Editing a single report When editing one report the original values will be shown in the fields chosen for editing In the following example the BIOS DATE and BIOS VENDOR screenshot fields have been selected for editing
6. Blancco Asset Manager Blancco 5 Asset 2 Blancco PC Edition Blancco 5 3 Blancco Server Edition 4 Blancco HMG 5 Blancco Stealth Activation amp Licensing 6 Blancco Stealth Erasure 7 Blancco Mobile 8 Blancco Data Centre Edition 9 Blancco Profiler 10 Blancco File 11 Blancco Flash 12 Blancco SPARC 13 Blancco Management Console for Linux 14 Blancco Management Console for Windows 15 Blancco Demo per HDD 16 Blancco Asset Manager per HDD 17 Blancco PC Edition per HDD 19 Blancco Server Edition per HDD Blancco 5 Server 20 Blancco HMG per HDD 21 Blancco Mobile Reporting Tool 23 Blancco Mobile Reset 8 Report 24 Blancco Data Centre Edition per HDD 25 Blancco LUN 26 i Ag blancco 86 90 Blancco SPARC per HDD 29 Blancco Demo per GB 32 Blancco Asset Manager per GB 33 Blancco PC Edition per GB 35 Blancco Server Edition per GB 36 Blancco HMG per GB 37 Blancco Data Centre Edition per GB 41 Blancco SPARC per GB 45 Blancco Degausser 48 Blancco 5 50 Blancco Management Console version 2 and 3 51 12 14 2 Report state When filtering with Report state field the software actually refers to State IDs Below is a list of all State IDs Example Report state 1 this will filter all Successful erasure reports Report state Identifier Failed 0 Successful Completed with exceptions 12 14 3 Erasure date To search by date the following format is required YYYY MM D
7. Press the Update button to update the report with the new changes or Cancel to cancel your actions Bee Bde d s blancco 46 90 7 16 Editing all reports The Edit all action will edit all reports shown in the currently filtered view but not the whole database When clicking the Edit all button the following window opens Edit report s You have selected to edit 54 reports from the selected view and filters This action may take some time to complete Are you really sure that you want to proceed If not click the Cancel button Fields to edit Cancel The first sentence You have selected to edit X reports will tell how many reports have been selected for editing In the picture above 54 reports have been filtered and all of them are now being edited In the following picture the BIOS DATE and BIOS VENDOR fields have been chosen for editing Fdit report s You have selected to edit 54 reports from the selected view and filters This action may take some time to complete Are you really sure that you want to proceed If not click the Cancel button Fields to edit M nn tud BIOS DATE h onc un t BIOS VENDOR Add field to be edited Cancel Writing something in these fields and then pressing Update will change the value of the selected field s in all chosen reports i removes the field from the edit report view any changes which have not been updat
8. Print Print this report See the 7 13 Print reports subchapter for more information 7 20 Report pagination The report pagination will allow browsing through the report list lt will display the first page lt will display the previous page gt will display the next page gt will display the last page The amount of pages will be shown in the pagination widget It is also possible to jump to any page by inputting the page number in the textbox and pressing the Enter key 7 21 Reports per page The reports per page setting will allow up to 100 reports to be displayed on one page e The Auto option will display as many reports as possible on the screen e The 10 25 50 100 options will display respectively 10 25 50 and 100 reports on the screen Hee Bde SS blancco 50 90 7 22 Statistics This view shows different statistics of the data collected from the reports KA s blancco Blancco Management Console Version 3 2 0 Notifications 0 e SE Language English e Help amp admin v MY BLANCCO PROCESS MANAGEMENT REPORTING USERS amp LICENSING ADMINISTRATION DEFAULT VIEWS Top 5 processor models Amount All reports AMD Athlon tm processor 38 Top 5 system manufacturers AMD Sempron tm Processor 3000 25 Computer reports AMD Athlon tm XP 2800 12 D i Celeron Coppermine 9 Mobile reports 50 Intel R Celeron R CPU 1 80GHz 6 40 LUN reports 30 e File reports SR A f S 1
9. Product name Available licenses to use or assign Already assigned licenses Total licenses Expiration date Blancco Demo 0 0 0 2014 07 01 02 00 Blancco Asset Manager Blancco 5 Asset 7 0 7 2015 01 01 01 00 Blancco PC Edition Blancco 5 1009 0 1009 2017 01 01 01 00 Blancco Server Edition 4 990 994 Licenses available in container 94 2015 01 01 01 00 Blancco Stealth Activation amp Licensing 10 0 10 2014 10 01 02 00 Blancco Mobile 7 180 187 Licenses available in container 87 2015 01 01 01 00 Nnlsnana Clack T nnie ni ni NLNAN 8 3 1 1 Synchronization unsynchronized licenses Licenses may become unsynchronized if any of the following situations occurs 1 The container HASP dongle has been removed from the MC server 2 The license information on the container has been modified 3 The container has been plugged back into the MC server To synchronize the license information the Synchronize button should be pressed or the MC service restarted which will also synchronize the licenses 8 3 1 2 Forced Manual synchronization unsynchronized 8 conflicted licenses The container HASP dongle has been removed from the MC server The license information on the container has been modified The container has been plugged back to the MC server Licenses will be synchronized either by pressing the Synchronize button or by restarting the MC service 5 The conflict will affect licenses which are already assigned a The conflicted
10. Version 3 3 0 Dr De w Tab MY BLANCCO PROCESS MANAGEMENT REPORTING USERS amp LICENSING ADMINISTRATION 23 Live management Client Identifier Product Session created Status Manufacture Serial Size Type Not Specifie 7 Blancco5 5 5 11 2014 06 25 13 54 COMPLETED innotek GmbH 0 805 MB Test 07114 Legacy N A 2014 06 25 14 34 0 N A N A N A N A 0266696853 Legacy N A 2014 06 25 14 39 0 N A N A N A N A 3 sessions Page 41 ofi There are two buttons on the top of the tab e Clear successful Removes all the successfully completed erasures from the list e Clear Selected Removes the selected processes whether they have finished or not The list of these processes is underneath and has the following fields Description Client Client identifier IP address and custom identifier are shown if they are available Identifier Unique identifier for Blancco 5 6 or newer This identifier will also be shown in the Blancco 5 6 or newer UI Product Erasure client in use Session created Time and date when the session was created Status Current status of the process When erasure is ongoing a progress bar is displayed here Manufacturer Manufacturer of the hard disk drive Serial Serial number of disk Size Size of the hard disk drive being erased Type Type of hard disk drive IDE SCSI SATA ue SS blancco 33 90 6 1 Controlling Blancco 5 remotely Blancco 5 can be controlled remotely from BMC Blancco 5 must
11. number of remaining licenses under Available licenses and the validity end date under Expiration date Available licenses Product Available Expiration name licenses date 2013 12 31 Blancco Demo 100 73 00 Blancco Asset Manager 100 2013 12 31 Blancco 5 23 00 Asset sima A 2013 12 31 Edition 285 73 00 Blanrren 5 li 5 3 5 Consumed licenses This widget contains information about consumed licenses by the current user logged in It shows the name of the product under Product name and the number of consumed licenses under Consumed licenses Hee 2 SS blancco 31 90 Consumed licenses Product name licenses Blancco Asset Manager Blancco 5 Asset 1 Blancco PC Edition Blancco 5 8 Blancco Server Edition 1 Blancco HMG 1 Blancco Data Centre Edition per GB 81 5 3 6 Import reports This widget is used for importing reports to the Blancco Management Console Import reports You can quickly import reports by using the import widget Click on the import button to open the report importing dialog Import For more detailed instructions on how to import reports please see the Reporting tab Import reports section Hee Bde SS blancco 32 90 6 PROCESS MANAGEMENT TAB The Live management page is used to manage and view erasure processes remotely kett Notifications 0 e Language English e Help amp admin v s Soe blancco Blancco Management Console
12. 20 03 Erasure state State of the shredding e g Successful Erasure operation name Name of the shredding operation e g File Shredding Erasure target path File Path of the shredded target e g C temp test txt Erasure target capacity Total size formatted of the shredding e g 12 MB Operating system computer Computer name on which the file was shredded e g WIN 12345 name Operating system user name User name used for the shredding e g WIN 12345 John Doe Report verification Verification status of the report true or false 12 8 6 Flash reports Description Date Date when the erasure was performed e g 2010 06 15 20 03 Erasure state State of the erasure e g Successful Disk serial Serial number of the erased disk e g EC98L8F Disk capacity Capacity formatted of the erased disk e g 3926 MB Disk vendor Manufacturer of the erased disk e g Kingston Disk model Model of the erased disk e g DataTraveler G3 Operating system computer Computer name on which the disk was erased e g WIN 12345 name Report verification Verification status of the report rue or false 12 8 7 Degausser reports Description Date Date when the degauss was performed e g 2010 06 15 20 03 Erasure state State of the degauss e g Successful Disk serial Serial number of the degaussed disk e g EC98L8F Disk c
13. 5 50 50 All groups E O Roles Group user Role s E Example Cor admin N A N A ROLE_ADMIN Q Licenses Groupi GroupAdminOne ROLE_GROUPADMIN E Group 2 GroupAdminTwo ROLE GROUPADMIN These group admins then create users for their respective groups which have unlimited access to the 50 licenses of Blancco 5 owned by the group administrator Hee 2 SS blancco 81 90 Create new user EMAIL userone example com GROUP Group 1 E LICENSES shared licenses License Details USERNAME UserOne FIRST NAME LAST NAME PASSWORD ITT RE TYPE PASSWORD eeesesse USER ROLE S 5 IN ROLE USER L ROLE GROUPADMIN ACCOUNT STATUS Active O Roles Group User E Group 1 GroupAdminOne Q Licenses E Groupi UserFour CT Group 1 UserOne E Groupi UserThree E Groupi UserTwo When these are done the admin can seethe following users All groups Group User E Example Co admin N A N A E Group 1 Group dminOne E Groupi UserFour E Group 1 UserOne E Group 1 UserThree Groupi E Group 2 E Group 2 E Group 2 F Ga Hee SS blancco Role s ROLE USER ROLE_GROUPA ROLE_USER ROLE USER ROLE USER ROLE USER Role s ROLE_ADMIN ROLE USER ROLE_GROUPADMI ROLE_USER ROLE USER ROLE USER ROLE USER ROLE USER ROLE_GROUPADMII ROLE USER ROLE USER ER 82 90 This has created the following hierarchy Admin 200 Blancco 5 licenses 50 50 100 to G
14. CONSOLE 10100101010101 188181 L Please read the following license agreement carefully By using this product you accept the license terms available at ttp www blancco com en eula I accept the terms of this icense agreement I do not accept the terms of this license agreement Cis on 2 2 1 First Time Installation Define the Blancco Management Console installation path Click Next to continue Ei IzPack Installation of Blancco Management Console 301 1011811818100118 111011011181810118 MAMAAALITTTSTTEETATS SS blancco MANAGEMENT CONSOLE B Select the installation path C Program Files Blancco Blancco Management Console E Browse previous Il get dl out Confirm the creation of a new directory Click OK to continue Message or The target directory will be created C Program Files Blancco Blancco Management Console see blancco 11 90 c This page shows which packs are going to be installed Click Next to continue FJ IzPack Installation of Blancco Management Console S egen w19114114118181081181 AN OICHT ss blancco 11101010118 1418180101 MANAGEMENT CONSOLE Mea 2 Select the packs you want to install 9 Note Grayed packs are reguired Documentation Application Description Dependencies and tools Total space Reguired 495 85 MB Available space 129 28 GB lt Previous Quit d Installation of th
15. Click the Save button to save the settings and exit the window Click Cancel to exit the window without saving any changes Hee Bde SS blancco 57 90 8 3 Licenses This view is used for license management Ass blancco Blancco Management Console Available licenses Expiration date B 0 2038 01 19 05 14 B 0 2038 01 19 05 14 B 0 2016 01 01 01 00 Blanoco Server Edition 0 2038 01 19 05 14 B B 000 HMG 0 2038 01 19 05 14 amp 8 5 z 0 2038 01 19 05 14 Blancco Data Centre Edition 0 2038 01 19 05 14 Blancco File 0 2038 01 19 05 14 Blancco Flash 0 2038 01 19 05 14 Blancco SPARC 0 2038 01 19 05 14 Blancco Management Console for Linux 0 2038 01 19 05 14 Blancco Management Console for Windows 0 2038 01 19 05 14 B B B B B B S SS SS e AAA 3 noco PC Editon per HDD 0 2038 01 19 05 14 noco Server Edition per HDD Blancco 5 Server 100 2016 01 01 01 00 coo Mobile Reset amp Report 0 2038 01 19 05 14 cco Data Centre Edition per HDO 0 2038 01 19 05 14 Se SS SG ERE lanoco LUN 0 2038 01 19 05 14 lancoo SPARC per HDD 0 2038 01 19 05 14 The dropdown menu in the top left corner of the list will be selected if the user s licenses are shown My licenses orthe licenses in the container are shown Container The listing has the following fields Product name the name of the product the license is for Licenses remaining number of remaining licenses and Expiration date t
16. Manage dashboard dialog Manage dashboard Name My dashboard Description Available widgets Selected widgets a a Login detail All ime er tatisti Average HDD Available Consumed licenses Import Reports Manage dashboard has the following fields e Name Name of the dashboard e Description Description of the dashboard e Available widgets A list of widgets available and not yet being used on the dashboard Search field can be used to search the list e Selected widgets Widgets selected for the dashboard Search field can be used to search the list The buttons next to the widget fields have the following functionalities gt will add the selected widget to the screen will remove the selected widget from the screen will move the selected widget to the top of the list first widget on the screen will move the selected widget up in the list will move the selected widget down in the list will move the selected widget to the bottom of the list last widget on the screen Note The position of the widget in the Selected widgets list will also determine its placement on the dashboard The top widget will be in the upper left corner the second widget from the top will be on the right side of the top widget The bottom widget will be located in the lower right corner of the screen Tip multiple widgets can be added or removed all at once by selecting all desired widgets while hold
17. Ok will restore the original report the edited report will be destroyed Cancel exits the screen and will cancel the action 7 18 Report icon Original Edited This icon shows whether the report has been edited or not If the report is in its original unedited state the icon will looks like this If the report has been edited the icon looks like this Sg 7 19 View button Most of the functionality described above can also be accessed via the View button menu This button is located in the third column from the left right after the checkbox and the Original Edited report columns M Je View T When the down arrow in the right corner of the View button is pressed the menu will open It contains the following functionalities EI View Edit Delete Export Email Print Properties ue SS blancco 49 90 7 19 1 View Opens the report for viewing in a new tab or as a pop up window depending on the browser Make sure your browser doesn t block pop ups from the BMC as this can sometimes interfere with the viewing of the report 7 19 2 Edit Edit this report See the 7 15 Edit report s subchapter for more information 7 19 3 Delete Delete this report See the 7 14 Delete reports subchapter for more information 7 19 4 Export Export this report See the 7 9 Export reports subchapter for more information 7 19 5 Email Email this report See the 7 12 Email reports subchapter for more information 7 19 6
18. TAB This page is used for system configuration settings blancco Blarx lanagement Console iies Slancco Blancco Management mbedded shutdown true Gelay false hsqidb lock_file false CN rogram Console db e s write gt In the upper right corner are the Expand all and Collapse all buttons which are used to expand or collapse all of the menus on this page 9 1 Configuration The configuration section is used to modify some settings Blancco Management Console uses The Save button at the bottom must be clicked for the changes to apply 9 1 1 Database settings All database related information is displayed here Description Database Which database is used Embedded MySQL Database host Which server the database is located on Database port The port which BMC uses to communicate with the database Database name Name of the database User name User name for the database Hee Bde SS blancco 61 90 9 1 2 TFTP Service Configuration By choosing the enable TFTP Service the internal TFTP server will be turned on This enables among other things remote management of Blancco Management Console s and erasure client s reports This also enables the PXE booting possibility after the system has been set up correctly Examples for setup are in the Installation path tftp folder Description Enable tftp service The TFTP service is turned on Port Port the TFTP service uses Rea
19. checking HASP connectivity read the chapter Checking HASP connectivity b Click Done to close the wizard c The Blancco Management Console service will start automatically and the default browser will be opened if the Start Blancco Management Console service option has been selected FJ IzPack Installation of Blancco Management Console S So Installation complete Installation and in al co ratio mplete ie ee uld conduct a more detailed s SE onfiguration from the web user interfac e go to Administratio Ga ep vie aE G re ait erface in order GER up other services su he mie Weil please connec tthe er key e Blancco Management Console was installed successfully REES as strseregrergreuerieirssgeegriereegt ll reuse ireregeegebegregeerg rg rueeerget SS blancco 22 90 3 LOGIN SCREEN All of the Blancco Management Console services are operated through a web browser When using Blancco Management Console for the first time please select the address of the machine where the product has been installed The address of Blancco Management Console is usually https servername portnumber or https ipaddress portnumber e g https localhost 8443 Wee gt blancco CERTIFIED DATA ERASURE Log in Need help Username e Open the user manual Password s Contact our support team E Remember me Something else a e View our product videos Log in e Find your nearest Bl
20. conf Find the existing SSL connector that will be secured with the new keystore Specify the correct keystore filename and password in your connector configuration When you are done your connector should look something like this lt Connector executor tomcatThreadPool PEOC O OOl OrGgrapacne EE Ee SSLEnabled true scheme https secure true clientAuth false sslProtocol TLS keystoreFile conf your keystore file jks KSVSTLOREPASS VOUr CSPELEICACS Password aceeorCoumt S00 ue SS blancco 72 90 EECH Ee Ee Oe BEE TT MOSS Eelere OSS ase Save your changes to the server xml file Restart Blancco Management Console For instructions on how to restart the Blancco Management Console please refer to the Restart BMC service section of the Appendix 12 6 Changing the communication ports By default Blancco Management Console is set to use ports HTTP 8080 and HTTPS 8443 unless otherwise modified during the installation of the BMC It is possible to change those default ports by editing the Tomcat server xml file The value to modify can be seen below COMMeCEOm Ek n EE EE HEED ol 0 gdong 5 1000 ege connectionTimeout 30000 enableLookups false executor tomcatThreadPool port 8080 protocol HTTP 1 1 redirectPort 8443 gt Conn C sore Sohhmabwed truce T URIENCoOdi ng TUTE Snia Cept Count 500 Client EE EE eS Slon OMe Econnect omil so NOOL enableLookups false executor tomcatTh
21. for both windows thus both are explained in the following table Group attributes Group name Group description Group reports Example com Example company On or off Group administrator account Email user example com Licenses Individual licenses or Shared licenses admin John Doe StrongPassword StrongPassword User ID First name Last name Password Re type password Aad Bee 90 blancco Description Name of the group Description of the group If this is on all reports will be shown from everyone who belongs to this group If it is off then reports will be only shown by individuals Email address of the group s administrator or user License type See License Distribution section for more details User ID of the group s administrator or user First name of the group s administrator or user Last name of the group s administrator or user Password for the group administrator s or user s account Password confirmation for the aforementioned account 53 90 User role S On or off Roles for the group can be selected underthis Group or user can have multiple roles Account status On or off Will show if the group or user has been activated or not If the user group is not active login to Blancco Management Console will not be possible nor can anything else be done within BMC 8 1 2 License distribution There are two types of licenses that can be used when creating a user or gro
22. he Ee GISUHIOULIONS ahi aiad 004 aema idane pin Ma i amaan a saama 70 12 2 4 SUSE based distributions 0vsenuovnent NEEN NENNEN eden madu ova NENNEN NENNEN RER NENNEN 71 12 25 ee da E Kee aa naat aseta a kaak ajal aa laada ta a aaa 71 1725 CHECKING Aor EEN 71 Bee Bde SS blancco 6 90 12 4 EE Idee 72 12 5 Changing the SSL Certificate in Tomcat navn n anna nnna anna neva neva anna annan 72 12 5 1 Installing the Certificates to the kevetore mane navn n ann navn annan anna 72 12 5 2 CoMguANg your SSE EOAAEELOF eege ee dee 72 12 6 Changing the communication Dote 73 17 7 CON GUMAG JAVA ODUONS osana aka ida ia sneered core aan ua a tans 74 12 7 1 Add JRE path to the system environment variables E 74 12 7 2 Changing JRE memory allocation nrrrvuvrnnavvn nunna navn a annan annan annan annan 75 12 8 System default report view ANNE ANE NN ANEREN NNN NNN ANNER ANE ANE 76 RE e e E 76 129 2 Computer Ce e EE 76 12 60 MOBI EEDOHS saua nae R aaa ilus saamaks 76 12 01 RT Re e EE 76 TD Ss TMS 1050 15 EE 77 12 86 FOSE ODON a ca a E sae A S 77 12 8 7 Degausser Ce e EE 77 12 9 Searching fields in a filtered list nerrevnnevnnevnnevonnvennnennnennvennnennnennnennannnennna 78 12 10 Restart BMC SEIM mul v inu ila i ais a aa a Lhasa a 79 12 10 1 Restart using application shortcuts Windows on 79 12 10 2 Restart using the Services menu Windows only 80 12 10 3 Restart using
23. licenses will be highlighted in red and italics i Example License 6 Toresolve the situation manual synchronization will be required This can be done in two different ways a Using the Force synchronize button b Manually editing the assigned licenses of any of the affected users Synchronization must be done after this 1 The Force synchronization of conflicted products will reset the amount of assigned licenses for the users apart from root admin to 0 This will only affectthe users and products affected by the conflicted licenses For an example where Force Syncronization is used see chapter Example of Forced Synchronization Hee Bde SS blancco 59 90 8 3 2 License activation To activate new licenses click the License activation button and the following window will open License activation Please select the activation code file from your system and click Submit to activate the licenses Browse_ license hsp Submit Click Browse and navigate to the license file and select it The license file will be delivered by Blancco s tech support team or sales person It is in hsp or txt format Click Submit and the licenses will be loaded into the Blancco Management Console After updating the licenses the BMC service must be restarted in order to apply the changes Please refer to the Restart BMC service section of the Appendix ue SS blancco 60 90 9 ADMINISTRATION
24. path logs Usually this location is In Windows Installation path logs In Linux Installation path logs 11 3 Log Files Blancco Management Console creates the following log files mc_communication log Erasure control activity communication specific logging mc_libraries log External libraries activity logging the actions from tools used Spring Hibernate etc mc_main log General activity non specific logging mc_repository log Backend activity data storage specific logging mc_scheduled_tasks log Activity related to scheduled tasks mc_service log Functional activity action specific logging mc_ui log User interface client side event activity logging 11 3 1 Enabling Debug mode for advanced users only When BMCis in the debug mode every action will be written in the log files Normally only errors are written there Only enable the debug mode if it is absolutely necessary When the debug mode is on complete the error generating action and then turn the debug mode off Edit the file a called log4j properties located at Installation path apache tomcat webapps ROOT WEB INF classes Find the following line LOGLEVEL ERROR Change it to LOGLEVEL DEBUG Save Changes and Restart the BMC to restart the BMC please refer to the Restart BMC service section of the manual 11 3 2 Changing the maximum log file size As the debug mode can fill the log files rather quickly the log file s maximum
25. service should be available with active scope for leasing IP s to the network where erasures are performed network booting o DHCP is required but DNS is optional For DHCP a Linux or Windows Server based operating system is mandatory as non server Windows operating systems do not have DHCP service available to them e For browser usage Blancco recommends Mozilla Firefox latest version e Make sure that firewalls will allow inbound network traffic to the port you define during the installation as a default Blancco Management Console will set ports 8443 https and 8080 http o External services like DHCP and PXE boot services may require additional firewall configuring e An empty database with a user who has owner rights or similar read write delete and create rights to the tables Tables are automatically created by the BMC o This requirement doesn t concern the embedded database as it is created and used by the BMC o Database must have COLLATION and ENCODING set to UTF 8 ue SS blancco 9 90 2 INSTALLATION amp CONFIGURATION 2 1 System preparation a Make sure Java is installed on your machine by going to the webpage http www java com en download testjava js If it is installed you should have an image like amp Your Java is working Latest Java installed Your Java configuration is as follows Vendor Oracle Corporation Version Java SE T Update 21 Operating System Windows T 6 1 Jav
26. 080 and HTTPS ports default value is 8443 as both are required Click Next to continue If there is a need to change these ports afterwards stop the Blancco Management Console service and modify the server xml file available in Installation folder apache tomcat conf Detailed instructions can be found from the Changing the communication ports section of the Appendix Ei IzPack Installation of Blancco Management Console ra XX 199118114118181081181 zc blancco 116111011011181018110 MANAGEMENT CONSOLE d ne 910101 180181 Web server configuration Please enter the ports for the web server HTTP port 8080 HTTPS port 8443 Blan nagement Con me ge es ed certificate for HTTPS communication To change the certificate follon ow gie instructions shown Mandatory fields 2 3 2 Database amp Authentication Selection Select the database and the type of authentication used Click Next to continue Note An empty database must be created before proceeding to this stage Please read the user manual of the selected database for any information regarding database creation Only wth embedded database will database creation be automatically handled by BMC SS blancco 17 90 Ei IzPack Installation of Blancco Management Console Lo So wel 1011811818100110 w blanca 110111011011181018110 MANAGEMENT CONSOLE 118100101018191 18818 Database and authentication selec
27. 68 11325 ck 12 2 4 SUSE based distributions This applies for Suse and openSUSE Within the installation folder execute the following command Eeer EE EE EE lei EE EEN 12 2 5 Additional steps For Ubuntu 12 04 Fedora 17 and openSUSE 12 the following steps need to be executed in order to detect the HASP key cudo mount Pind EE EE sudo ln s sys kernel debug usb devices proc bus usb devices sudo etc init d aksusbd restart These steps need to be executed every time the system is started following a shutdown or restart For Ubuntu 12 04 and higher and Debian the following solution also exists in order to detect the HASP key Edit the file etc udev rules d 80 hasp rules and replace the string SYSFS by ATTRS as shown below in yellow etc udev rules d 80 hasp rules HASP udev rules ACTION add SUBSYSTEM usb ENV DEVTYPE usb_device ATTRS idVendor 0529 ATTRS idProduct 0001 MODE 664 ENV HASP 1 SYMLINK aks hasp k RUN usr sbin aksusbd c Sroot aks hasp Skernel ACTION remove ENV HASP 1 RUN usr sbin aksusbd r Sroot aks hasp S kernel t Compatibility rule for kernel previous 2 6 22 E E a E E ebe lee PAS DIE Eeer SY SES Le aere lt 0522 SYSFS idProduct 0001 MODE 664 ENV HASP 1 SYMLINK aks hasp k RUN usr sbin aksusbd c Sroot aks hasp Skernel eof Save the file restart the HASP services as well as BMC service as shown belo
28. 9 90 Navigate to the xml file containing the reports to be imported into the system If the person importing the reports has access to other user accounts the user can define which users will take ownership of the reports These accounts can only be in the same group as the user importing them or the users must be sub users of the importer The digital signature check of the reports was successful Reports are valid Select user to assign the reports to admin e If the client software has not consumed a license s it will require licenses for the import procedure This is why it is highly recommended that the USB HASP dongle is attached in to the machine when importing reports from multiple sources In order to import uploaded report set the following licenses need to be consumed Product Blancco Data Centre Edition per GB Blancco Server Edition Blancco PC Edition Blancco Asset Manager Blancco HMG Amount 81 m e CO FR Select user to assign the reports to admin D 7 9 Export reports It is possible to export Blancco erasure reports in several formats Available formats are XML PDF and CSV If report mode is setto Original reports the original version of the reports will be exported even if they have been edited If the mode is set to Edited reports then the edited version will be exported Export selected reports Please select the format in which you want to export the report
29. ATION o 8 2 Roles This view is used for managing roles mae Notifications 0 v BE Language English e Help A admin v A blancco Blancco Management Console Version 3 2 0 MY BLANCCO PROCESS MANAGEMENT REPORTING USERS amp LICENSING ADMINISTRATION A Users a Sg F ROLE_ADMIN Default ADMIN role 30 Q Licenses F ROLE_GROUPADMIN Default GROUPADMIN role 25 ROLE_USER Default USER role 17 The list has the following fields Role name name of the role Description description of the role Authorities number of rights the role has been authorized to use 8 2 1 Default roles There are 3 default roles ROLE ADMIN ROLE GROUPADMIN and ROLE_USER ROLE ADMIN Used for the top user created during installation This user has full control of the Blancco Management Console ROLE_GROUPADMIN Should be used when creating groups ROLE USER Should be used when creating users Users will have limited access to the Blancco Management Console e g will not be able to create sub users and will not have access to license activation Hee Bde SS blancco 56 90 8 2 2 Create new role The New Role button opens the following window Create new role ROLE NAME Mew Role ROLE DESCRIP TION F ILICENSE F GROUP F O USER F ROLE gt SYSTEM b REPORT lM WIDGET_MANAGE C STATISTICS STATISTICS PROCESS MANAGEMENT The Role name field is man
30. D hh mm ss The hour format is 24h Example 1 filtering reports with precise date and time including seconds Erasure date 2012 01 20 22 01 20 this will return all reports from 20 of January 2012 at 22 01 20 The comparison operator needs to be used Example 2 filtering reports from a specific day Erasure date like 2012 01 20 this will return all reports from 20th of January 2012 The Mike comparison operator needs to be used Example 3 filtering reports from a specific day s hour Erasure date like 2012 01 20 10 this will return gives all reports from 20th of January 2012 10 o clock The Mike comparison operator needs to be used 12 15 Using PXE boot To use the PXE booting in server environments ue SS blancco 87 90 a Make sure that no tftp or pxe booting related services have been previously installed on the server These services can interfere with the Blancco Management Console components b Make sure that the following ports are open in the firewall o TCP ports 8080 and 8443 o UDP port 69 default TFTP port c Turn thetftp service on by clicking Enable tftp service and save the settings d Restart the Blancco Management Console service Please refer to the Restart BMC service section for instructions e Windows Server Configure the DHCP service o 066 Boot Server Host Name must point to the Blancco Management Console o 067 Bootfile Name is gpxelinux 0 f Linux M
31. Ge SS blancco CERTIFIED DATA ERASURE BLANCCO MANAGEMENT CONSOLE User Manual for version 3 3 www blancco com DEFINITIONS JRE Legacy clients BMC PXE SMTP TFTP ue EXPLANATION File Transfer Protocol is a standard network protocol used to copy a file from one host to another over a TCP IP based network The HASP product line is a digital rights management DRM suite of protection and licensing software Blancco Management Console uses a USB HASP key for digital rights management It is referred in this manual as License container HTML which stands for Hyper Text Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages It provides a means to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings paragraphs lists as well as for links quotes and other items Java Runtime Environment JRE is an application that has all the modules to execute applications that use Java Legacy clients are Blancco s older line of products The most well known products are Blancco PC Edition Blancco Server Edition and Blancco Data Centre Edition Abbreviation of Blancco Management Console Preboot eXecution Environment is an environment for booting computers using a network interface Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is an Internet standard for electronic mail email transmission across Internet Protocol IP networks Trivial File Transfer Protocol TFTP isa file tra
32. Ge eine Kee e EE 41 740 1 REDOM OPLONS eege 41 e EEN 41 7 11 Export rep rts in CSV e EE 42 1 12 ENT DON ats E r E E E E E E R E 43 fekos PIME ET 43 Fike DOCO F PON E 43 2 15 EET EEN 44 Bee Bde SS blancco 4 90 7 15 14 Editing a Single Te en a mate ia i ik aaa li Maldini ai aaa ai 45 7 15 2 Editing several repOrts cccsscesccerscceeccceeucenccaneecsereusersanerseseeueersussecussrsasersags 46 410 EGUNO AN TODON ess tama aulas ea aal aare seis aia aia ja a 47 G ss et Ge ein PIO DCIS S aaa maana jne aida eas aia E 48 7171 ege in NOG BE 48 TAT 2 e ee UE 48 7 173 Restore e e KEE 49 7 18 Report icon Original Eoteg navn annnannvna navn ann na nne nn ann n annad 49 EE VICWDULCOM eege EES 49 LE WE 50 19 2 EHE saata aata aa ala aaa ala alaanid 50 VA MO e E 50 5194 EDOM eebe 50 4 19 5 TEE 50 196 e LEE 50 7 20 Report pagination EE 50 fee da EEN 50 Fora E Ee 51 8 User amp licensing Gab ek NK NN E NN K NENNEN ANER RE NN K NENNEN NEE ANNE NN NEEN RRE NK AER AE 52 E KEE 52 8 1 1 Create new user group WEEN 53 8 1 2 License distribution ege eege Ee AE 54 8 1 3 Edit exis ng USer grO D age geseet ee eg e enee AA 55 8 1 4 Remove existing User OtrOoUp Ne E NENNEN RE NENNEN ANE NNN NENNEN AEN AE NNN 55 8 1 5 Sort users per OUD aun na aa aaa t aaa 55 9 1 6 geleet lee Il re EE 56 EE 56 Se EE 56 8 22 Cheadle EE ee 57 2297486 CIE gt ln ehre TE 57 0 3 len i a ei aia i aa ia ia i 58 833 15 Ucense
33. LDAP GC or 3269 LDAP GC SSL are used this field can be left empty the search will be done through 21 90 the whole LDAP Global Catalog Role filter member 0 Helps to filter LDAP groups The default value is member 0 Administrator bmc_admins A security group that contains all of the BMC s admin users role name This security group must exist in LDAP before this step Mandatory field Once the installation has been completed log in to the BMC using an account that belongs to the security group defined in the Administrator role name field Once logged in it will be possible to create additional roles See the Create new role section for detailed instructions Important If you are using LDAPS protocol to authenticate to BMC please make sure that the Certification Authority certificate exists in the Java keystore Note Leaving the fields User search base or Role search base blank will be possible only if ports 3268 or 3269 are used If other ports are used e g 389 or 636 then those fields will be mandatory 2 4 Installation Complete Installation update process is now complete a At this stage please connect the HASP key Please wait for the OS to detect and initialize the HASP key before clicking Done If BMC is being installed on a Linux system before clicking Done please check the following section for Installing HASP drivers in Linux For more information about
34. Management Console V Create shortcuts in the Start Menu 7 Create additional shortcuts on the desktop Select a Program Group for the Shortcuts 7 Zip a create shortcut for Accessories current user ActivePerl 5 14 2 Build 1402 Administrative Tools Adobe LiveCyde ES2 E all users Anytime USB Charge Utility Battery Utility BlackBerry Blancco Brother Canon MP 500 CheckSum Tool Cisco v Blancco Blancco Management Console Default lt Previous Quit see blancco 15 90 i The update is now complete The checkbox Start Blancco Management Console service will be checked as a default and BMC service will automatically start Click Done to finish the update Fj IzPack Installation of Blancco Management Console tel j nts Installation complete Installation and initial configuration are now complete You should conduct a more detailed system configuration from the web user interface Please go to Administration gt Configuration from the web user interface in order to set up other services such as email tftp Before clicking Done please connect the HASP key e Blancco Management Console was installed successfully Note When updating to version 3 2 0 of the BMC your selection of widgets in the Hometab will be reset ue SS blancco 16 90 2 3 Configuration 2 3 1 Port Selection Fill in the HTTP default value is 8
35. MySQL PostgreSQL 1 2 Larger operations Component Minimum Recommended CPU Quad Core processor 2x Quad Core processor with Hyper Threading Memory RAM 8GB 12GB Database Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition or Microsoft SQL Server Standard Edition better MySQL PostgreSQL or better PXE booting Microsoft WDS Linux PXE booting Microsoft WDS Linux PXE booting Note Separate servers are recommended for running the BMC and the database Two high performance servers should be used Hee 2 SS blancco 8 90 1 3 Software Service reguirements Itis important to understand that these services may already exist in your network and can be used by this software Please check that there are not any conflicts between any existing service and the settings recommended by Blancco e Windows or Linux operating system 32 or 64 bit o Debian or Redhat based Linux distributions are recommended o For Windows based operating systems a Windows Server based system is necessary for network booting Administrator rights root access to the system Latest operating system updates are installed Make sure that the HASP key IS NOT inserted when installing the HASP key drivers Download and install the latest version of the Java Runtime Environment JRE platform in the machine where the Blancco Management Console will be running o Version 6 or newer is required e DHCP DNS Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Domain Name System Server
36. Sync hronZa ele ME 58 SN Een Le Cen BEE 60 Hee Bde SS blancco 5 90 FA gel TAD a kaa aia seal siidi aasia Salim ec si aa ai 61 SH ee elt 4 0 EE 61 9 14 Database SEAS EE 61 9 12 TE 115 ee ee EE 62 Aes Elie Se gn Le E 62 9 14 Erasure Cent EE 62 9 15 Report Ee 62 EE 63 0 2 1 Applicaton IMOMMaUON E 63 HORE Bn a ANAON ee ee eee 64 10 1 Back up important datz 64 10 2 RUN MS ASLAN SCN snutcesinctyossncumentsocsetes lt satusasdeonestenassaans si EE 64 10 21 WMINGOMS Ee 64 E DEE EE 65 10 53 Clean Up the instalation Tolder EE 66 LL TEOUDISSAOGLME WEE 67 141 COMMON ODO siutsu asi naa E ET saan aiai augu maaki T 67 11 2 General Troubleshooting vervnnnnvunnvnnannennnnnnanennaneenennunnennanennnennennennanennene 68 CN LOO FIE EE 68 11 3 1 Enabling Debug mode for advanced users oh 68 11 3 2 Changing the maximum log file ee 68 11 3 3 Backing UD e e WEE 69 dete geing Le due SUD DON Lasta tantum aaa ema E ajaks e 69 12 leie el Eri mina si aasa aaa ik aia tai lamina oi rer ai 70 12 1 Database M INteNANCE 23656 aema tea kant aa maa ea aida a kka a ala nanna 70 P Mee VSO TE 70 12 2 Installing HASP drivers in LINUX ccceceeeeeeeeeee reese eeseeeeaeeeeaeeesaeeesaeeeaeeteanentgaeenags 70 12 2 1 Requirements for 64bit OS mann ar ANEREN ANNE nano nano vann name rase NN ANE NN NNN 70 12 2 2 Redhat based distributions 5envovvasunsuudevu duona REENEN ENNEN NEEN NENNEN NENNEN 70 12 25 1DeBIAA
37. T A E E T 23 4 Blancco Management Console user mtertacg 25 e RR e Ee E EE 25 41 Language e e Sin aas aiaiai iial aatal aa 25 PEZ HOD EE 25 1 13 NOUMCACION Ee 25 1 2 PI0685S Areda maaala a isi ai a a a ad naa aa any ae 25 E 33 el O EE 26 AMY BIIN nasa veame sa ENE Aina atu avada E 27 Deis INOW 51597075 EE EEN 27 5 2 Manage dashboard ererrennevnavennonvnnanenneneennnenanennaneenennennenanarenneenennennenenennnne 28 50 DOr MO ee 20 Ds Feds Ee a Un Re UE 20 5 3 2 All time erasure StatiStiCS see Nk N SNE ENREN SEENEN EE atu REENEN E ENER NENNEN ENEE ENNEN Nee 30 Daos Average MDD OZE EE 30 blancco 3 90 518 Te E e EE EN 5 3 5 EIERE eege 31 GE DOIG EE 32 6 Process management Eege EE 33 6 1 Controlling Blancco 5 remotely navn nnnnannnna nan na neva nan na nn nn nne nna 34 Ode he Eel SUIS 9 8 16 E 34 6 122 RODOR en e E AAA a 35 6 2 Managing Legacy client erasures E 35 K N REPOMING LAD ennmenvaenecaesicescuseeeseesaewmass one vatia aladel EE ai 36 7 1 Report view management annan enn n anne ranna nn 36 LK Ohn 36 4 2 EE rn ns tseni aiaiai ai aa 37 TZ 2s e ele di EE 37 E VIOW COMMS isana aasal miini aaa auk aia aaa i kka 37 7 2 te VIEW EE 37 72 9 EE Ee 37 7 3 Manage existing report view 38 59 14 e E 38 750 24 NON ee 38 G 4 R POE nl 38 FB elle re e a r r tunastosaadenscevesudeueandnncdadednasusensdavsasnenneevenscewoues 38 7 0 Open a report E 39 E OE NEW TEPO WEE 39 LOONE DON ee 39 Fi DONE EES 40 ES
38. V License Details Product name aa ka Blancco Demo 0 100 Blancco Asset Manager Blancco 5 Asset 0 100 Blancco PC Edition Blancco 5 0 285 Blancco Server Edition 0 200 USERNAME FIRST NAME LAST NAME PASSWORD RE TYPE PASSWORD USER ROLE S HS E ROLE ADMIN 8 1 3 Edit existing user group Editing existing users groups is possible by selecting the user group and clicking the Edit button 8 1 4 Remove existing user group Clicking the Remove button deletes the selected user group Note The default user user created when setting up the Blancco Management Console cannot be removed 8 1 5 Sort users per group The dropdown menu just above the Group column is used to sort users by the group they belong to All groups which is the default value shows all the groups Other groups are added below this list as they are created In the picture below if group Group 1 was selected only the users belonging to Group 1 would be listed A L Example Gompany Group 1 Group 2 C Example Co UserTwo ue SS blancco 55 90 8 1 6 User group quick search The quick search allows quick filtering of users and or groups within the active view Searching for the term Smith would give all the users which have the word Smith in them and also Smithsonian Blacksmith Greensmiths Joe Smith Smith group etc USERS amp LICENSING ADMINISTR
39. a Architecture 64 bit b If Java is not installed on your machine download and install the latest Java Runtime Environment JRE o You can download it from http www java com en download manual jsp o Install Java on your machine then restart the machine Note For a 64 bits operating system please install the 64 bit version of Java Windows Offline 64 bit c If you encounter problems with JAVA even after installing the latest version please follow the instructions in the Configuring JAVA options section of the Appendix 2 2 Installation a Double click the installation file name jar installation package provided by Blancco to start the installation wizard Make sure you run the installation package with administrator rights o Installation can also be executed via the command line with the following command Java et ras aa pa kae name E b Select the installation language The language can be selected from the dropdown menu Supported languages are English US French German Japanese Russian and Spanish Fa Language 5 ja Please select your language E English ue SS blancco 10 90 Read the License Agreement visit http www blancco com en eula and if you approve of it select I accept the terms of this license agreement and click Next F IzPack Installation of Blancco Management Console teol ie 99114110118101001101 e blancen 111011011101010110 MANAGEMENT
40. ake sure the DHCP service is running on network and pointing to PXE TFTP Place the Blancco images to the following location Installation folder apache tomcat webapps root networkboot h Edit the file name default located under Installation folder tftp pxelinux cfg folder Edit the text highlighted in yellow to match with your environment configuration o The text after LABEL will be shown in the network boot menu o The IP address and port in the example below 792 168 0 178080 must match with the Blancco Management Console IP must match with the Blancco Management Console IP and port in use o The erasure client ISO filename in the example below erasure Client iso must match with the ISO filename existing in your environment file copied in step g MENU TITLE Blancco PXE Boot Menu LABEL linux memdisk append iso initrd http 1921168101128080 networkboot exasure Client mise MENU DEFAULT ue SS blancco 88 90 13 INTEGRATION The Blancco Management Console supports data integration with external systems by providing web services These web services provide a few different interfaces where the reguired data can be gueried by using different parameters The Blancco Management Console offers several integration opportunities The web services will remain the same after a version update An already functional integration to the Blancco Management Console version 3 0 0 and later will work on the next version of
41. al export options are available e Export to multiple files allows reports to split into several files The amount of reports in each file can be set in the Reports file text field acceptable values are between 0 and 100000 ue SS blancco 41 90 7 11 Export reports in CSV format By default when exporting report s in CSV format the current columns those visible in the selected view will be exported Export selected reports Please select the format in which you want to export the report Report options REPORT FORMAT CSV REPORT MODE Original values Custom columns SEPARATOR SUB RECORD SEPARATOR Custom columns can also be selected Selecting Custom columns will expand the dialog with column selection boxes Please refer to Report views View columns for details on how to add remove and order columns Export selected reports Please select the format in which you want to export the report REPORT FORMAT CSV D REPORT MODE Original values D COLUMN SELECTION Current columns Custom columns Available columns Selected columns Q Q BIOS date A BIOS serial x BIOS vendor BIOS version A Business location dn Business name v CPU cache size CPU dmispeed v CPU freguency CPU maximum cores ae D SEPARATOR SUB RECORD SEPARATOR A search functionality is available for the Available columns and Selected column
42. anchCache This service Manual Network 5 SA Certificate Propagation Copies user Started Manual Local Syste C Cisco AnyConnect VPN Agent Cisco AnyC Started Automatic Local Syste CNG Key Isolation The CNG ke Started Manual Local Syste SE COM Event System Supports Sy Started Automatic Local Service 64 COM System Application Manages th Manual Local Syste k Computer Browser Maintains a Started Manual Local Syste CA Credential Manager Provides se Manual Local Syste k Cryptographic Services Provides fo Started Automatic Network 5 lt i DCOM Server Process Launcher The DCOM Started Automatic Local Syste C Desktop Window Manager Session Provides De Started Automatic Local Syste 4 DHCP Client Registers an Started Automatic Local Service _ e Start menu gt Right click Computer gt Click Manage gt on the left panel expand Services and Applications gt click on Services Or e Start menu gt write services msc and press the Enter key Right click on Blancco Management Console and select Restart Wait until the popup below closes Service Control Windows is attempting to stop the following service on Local Computer Blancco Management Console 12 10 3 Restart using terminal Linux only In Linux systems restart the BMC service by running the following command w gudo SG ini
43. anczco representative e Change language When the address of the Blancco Management Console has been opened the login screen will be shown Please insert your username and password to continue to the main view of the Blancco Management Console When using internal authentication please use the credentials created during Authentication Configuration If the Remember me checkbox is checked the user credentials have already been saved and will not have to be filled in again The credentials have been saved in a browser cookie which will be saved for four weeks The cookie will be destroyed if the user logs out of the BMC or when the cookie times out Note For security reasons we recommend using the Remember me functionality only on private computers and not on public or shared computers The language of the login screen can be changed by clicking the Change language option The right side of the screen houses the Need help and Something else sections which have the following links ue d blancco 23 90 e Needhelp o Open the user manual opens a copy of the user manual o Ask from our support team opens the web address http support blancco com for contacting support e Something else o View our product videos opens the web address http www blancco com videos for viewing Blancco product videos and tutorials o Find your nearest Blancco representative opens the web address http
44. apacity Capacity formatted of the degaussed disk e g 10 GB Disk vendor Manufacturer of the degaussed disk e g Western Digital Disk model Model of the degaussed disk e g STCO7 Customer Customer name Barcode Barcode number of the degaussed disk Extra1 Extra information Report verification Verification status of the report true or false Hee Bde d s blancco 77190 12 9 Searching fields in a filtered list If a search is done on the Selected columns and the order of the filtered columns is changed using the Top Up Down or Bottom buttons the order of the unfiltered columns stays the same only the order between filtered columns changes Example of ordering columns in a filtered list Step 1 five 5 columns are selected visible in the Selected columns box BIOS date position 1 CPU model position 2 Report date position 3 Disk capacity position 4 Erasure state position 5 Step 2 A searchis done on the pattern ate The results of the search are e BIOS date position 1 e Report date position 3 e Erasure state position 5 Step 3 The Erasure state moves to the top of the filtered columns The reordered results are e Erasure state position 5 e BIOS date position 1 e Report date position 3 Step 4 The search has been cleared The unfiltered column list Erasure state position 5 CPU model po
45. at the erasure process has failed A systematic verification step will always be enforced after the last overwriting pass In previous versions of the erasure client up to version 5 3 2 two options are available quick and full corresponding respectively to 20 and 100 of verification 12 5 Changing the SSL Certificate in Tomcat By default Blancco Management Console comes with a self signed certificate installed The following steps are needed to change the certificate to a different one 12 5 1 Installing the Certificates to the Keystore Obtain the certificate file from a Certificate Authority or create your own self signed certificate NOTE If you are purchasing the certificate from a Certificate Authority e g Thawte VeriSign you can follow their certificate installation guides for Tomcat Type the following command to install the certificate file to your keystore KEV EOO lL limpott Cr steeaeeres Els VOUr Certiaricets 118 Kkeyoiors your KeyStoOrs rile js You should receive a confirmation stating that the Certificate reply was installed in keystore M ff If you are asked about trusting the certificate choose y or yes Your keystore file your keystore file jks is now ready for use on your Tomcatserver and you simply need to configure your server in order to use it 12 5 2 Configuring your SSL Connector Open the Tomcat server xml file in a text editor Installation folder apache tomcat
46. be configured with the following option in order to enable remote control e General Erasure Control Management Console remote Note Check out the Blancco 5 Configuration Tool User Manual to know more about how to configure Blancco 5 software images Client Identifier Product Session created Status Manufacturer Model Serial Size Type Not Specifie 7 Blancco5 5 5 1 2014 06 25 13 54 EGE innotek GmbH VirtualBox 0 805 MB 6 1 1 Erasure controls There are four types of commands that can be sent remotely to the machine to erase Control erasures SELECT ACTION mueren P Start erasure Pause erasure Cancel erasure Resume erasure In order to start an erasure remotely select the machine to erase and click on the Control erasures button and select Start erasure 6 1 1 1 Starterasure There are some options which must be selected before starting the erasure Control erasures SELECT ACTION Starterasure M SELECT ERASURE METHOD Air Force System Security Instructio C Erase remapped sectors ERASURE VERIFICATION 1 LEVEL Send command Cancel Available options for selection are a Erasure method the full list of available erasure methods can be found from the Erasure standards section of the Blancco 5 User Manual b Erase remapped sectors enabled or disabled c Verification level quick full or in more recent versions of the erasure client from version 5 4 0 and newer
47. been edited then its edited values will be shown which will affect searches if those values are shown in the view Tip For faster searches it is recommended to only use the wildcard symbol after the search string E g Intel instead of Intel ue SS blancco 38 90 7 6 Open a report To open a report click on the View button in the dropdown menu The report will open in a new browser tab See 7 19 View button for more information 7 Create new report This feature is used to create customized reports It is intended for assets that cannot be erased using a standard Blancco erasure solution Select the appropriate template from the dropdown menu and fill in the information Available templates are Monitor HDD Laptop PC and Mobile_device Click the Create report button when ready or Cancel if you want to exit without saving the changes Create report with HDD template is shown in the picture below Create report SELECT TEMPLATE HDD D Common items COMPANY PERSON Template items BUS COMMENTS HDD SIZE MAKE MODEL SECTORS SECTOR SIZE SERIAL NUMBER SIZE A Dunch TYPE Create report 7 8 Import reports It is possible to import Blancco erasure reports to the Blancco Management Console Click the Import button and the following screen will be shown Select the Blancco XML report file you want to import No file selected Wee 2 blancco 3
48. chnical Support by submitting a technical support ticket at http support blancco com See the instructional videos for Blancco products at http www blancco com en videos For contact information and the latestinformation about secure data erasure solutions visit the Blancco website at http www blancco com We are always looking for ways to improve our products Please let us know if you have any Suggestions ue SS blancco 90 90
49. chronization The table below shows the situation before clicking Force synchronization The unsynchronized database thinks that the Admin has 100 licenses Remaining Type of licenses to Total license be licenses assigned Admin container individual licenses Leer shared Group1 licenses User2 individual Group1 licenses Groupi The situation after Force synchronization has been clicked Remaining Type of licenses to Total license be licenses assigned Admin container individual licenses Leer shared Group1 licenses User2 individual Group1 licenses Groupi 12 13 Role attributes In this chapter all the role attributes will be listed and explained This chapter is comprised of tables which demonstrate what each role attribute means The name of the attribute is in the left column and the explanation is located in the right column Bee Bde SS blancco 84 90 CREATE Right to create groups DELETE Right to delete groups EDIT Right to edit groups LICENSE ACTIVATE Right to activate licenses CONSUME Right to consume licenses EXPORT Right to export licenses VIEW Right to view licenses information PROCESS MANAGEMENT Right to manage processes REPORT CREATE Creating reports DELETE Deleting reports EMAIL Emailing reports EXPORTCSV Exporting reports in CSV format EXPORTPDF Exporting reports in PDF format EXPORTXML Exporting reports in XML format IMPORT Importing reports PRINT Printi
50. close 12 10 1 2 Start BMC service Start the BMC service by clicking the Start Blancco Management Console shortcut The shortcut can be found by clicking Start icon gt All Programs gt Blancco gt Blancco Management Console gt Start Blancco Management Console oO Start Blancco Management Console A similar command prompt window than above appears on the screen Wait until the message Service BMC started Press any key to continue is displayed on the screen Press any key e g Enter or Space key The command prompt window will automatically close ue SS blancco 79 90 12 10 2 Restart using the Services menu Windows only Open the Services menu Services File Action View Help e abl B m gt an p Ti Services Local A Select an item to view its description Name Description Status Startup Type Log On As r Base Filtering Engine The Base Fil Started Automatic Local Service C BitLocker Drive Encryption Service BDESVC hos Manual Local Syste 46 Blancco 5 Configuration Tool Blancco 5 C Automatic Local Syste lt Blancco Management Console Blancco Ma Started Automatic Local Syste 68 Blancco XML Report Service Sends Blanc Started Automatic Local Syste E Block Level Backup Engine Service The WBENG Manual Local Syste Ci Bluetooth Support Service The Bluetoo Started Manual Local Service Se Br
51. co Management Console A command prompt window appears on the screen Wait until the following message is displayed on the screen The Blancco Management Console service was stopped successfully Press any key to continue ii Un install Blancco Management Console 1 M Console gt c cee rb op rn bat DE B n be sto oppe ed wi n Kan rights yes to ue pr rules is sto oping A vice was stoppe ed succ sfu silly Press any key e g Enter or Space key SS blancco 64 90 The command prompt window will automatically close and the following window will be displayed E IzPack Uninstaller This will remove the installed application 7 Force the deletion of C Program Files Blancco Blancco Management Console poo gy Din If you wish to remove the contents of the installation folder select the Force the deletion of option Click the Uninstall button to process with the uninstallation Note Uninstalling BMC might take several minutes E IzPack Uninstaller This will remove the installed application Force the deletion of C Program Files Blancco Blancco Management Console Finished The uninstallation has finished Click Quit to close the Uninstaller window 10 2 2 Linux OS To uninstall the BMC on Linux operating systems first open a terminal command prompt Run the following command as root Java jar Installation pat
52. d folder Where the TFTP service reads data Write folder Where the TFTP service writes data Mode Which mode the TFTP service is on Options are GET ONLY read only GET AND PUT read and write mode and PUT ONLY write only Timeout Timeout time in milliseconds Max timeout retries How many times a retry is made if a timeout happens For more information about setting PXE booting see Using PXE boot section of the appendix 9 1 3 Email Settings Email settings for Blancco Management Console to use Description Mail server host Mail server address Username Username forthe mail server Password Password forthe mail server Email server port Port used forthe email Email protocol Protocol used for email Email sender What is written in the sender field Email subject What is written in the subject field Test email address Test email address for testing the email sending Test connection Click this button to test the email sending 9 1 4 Erasure Client Settings Erasure client related settings 9 1 5 Report Settings Report related settings Description Report mode Original reports original reports are shown in default report views Edited reports edited reports are shown in default report views Hee Bde SS blancco 62 90 9 2 About The About section contains information about the application 9 2 1 Application information Application and Java properties a
53. datory Underneath is the Role description field which can be filled in with a description of the role The rights also called authorities are listed below the description They are organized in the categories listed in the table below Available authorities are as follows Available authorities Group Create Delete and Edit License Activate Consume Export and View Process Management Report Create Delete Email ExportCSV ExportPDF ExportXML Import Print and View Statistics Statistics System Configuration and Login User Create Delete Edit List Role_Create Role_Delete and Role_Edit Widget Customize_widget Click Create to create the new role or Cancel to cancel all the changes and exit from this window without saving Note When using the external authentication LDAP the role name must be formatted in the following way ROLE_securityGroupName where securityGroupName is the name of the security group you want to link to the role The prefix ROLE is mandatory E g in order to link the security group BMC Erasure Operators to a role in BMC the role name must be the following ROLE_BMC Erasure Operators 8 2 3 Edit existing role Editing an existing role is possible by selecting the role and clicking the Edit button
54. dentials Make sure that the database service is started This issue happens when the database service has stopped and BMC 3 cannot fetch report information Check the database connectivity and if necessary restart the database service Double check that Java JRE has been installed correctly Start gt Run gt cmd gt java version If an error message is displayed Java has not been installed or is not running correctly Double check that the account used for erasure has access to the licenses and that there actually are correct licenses available on the HASP key Also check that the licenses are valid Users amp Licensing gt Licenses gt See that there are licenses left and that they are valid Users amp Licensing gt Users gt Edit the user account used for erasures gt Either select Shared licenses option or assign licenses manually by clicking details If using a custom created role make sure that the role has License consume export and view rights available Make sure that the BMC service has started and it is running correctly Run Start Blancco Management Console with local administrator level rights After this check that the service has been started correctly Start gt Programs gt Administrative Tools gt Services gt Blancco Management Console gt Started 67 90 error message is shown 11 2 General Troubleshooting Blancco log files are in the folder Installation
55. e files and drivers for BMC has been completed Click Next to continue to the shortcut setup page F IzPack Installation of Blancco Management Console ec a i wheel 1011811818100110 zc blancco 110111011011181010110 MANAGEMENT CONSOLE 2 Pack installation progress 2 Overall installation progress ue SS blancco 12 90 e Select the shortcuts to be created Click Next to start the configuration process Now you will be able go to the Configuration section Ei IzPack Installation of Blancco Management Console le Sem 301 1011811818108110 WWII 99100101 t 4410101818110010 SS blancco MANAGEMENT CONSOLE di Vi Create shortcuts in the Start Menu Create additional shortcuts on the desktop Select a Program Group for the Shortcuts 7 Zip JAccessories create shortcut for 3 current user JActivePerl 5 14 2 Build 1402 Administrative Tools Adobe LiveCycle ES Anytime USB Charge Utility Battery Utility BlackBerry Blancco Brother Canon MP 500 CheckSum Tool so 6 all users Blancco Blancco Management Console Don Previous 2 2 2 Update a Define the Blancco Management Console installation path The installation path cannot be automatically detected Therefore the user must selectthe folder where the previous version of MC has been installed into Click Next to continue Ei I
56. ed will be lost ue d blancco 47 90 Press the Update button to update the report with the new changes or Cancel to cancel your actions 7 17 Report properties Will open the report properties dialog Report properties Report UUID e62111c7 0f83 465c 9252 86e03dle7c32 Report owner admin N A N A Report date 2009 02 10 15 35 26 0200 Action log Date User Action 2014 01 08 16 45 08 0200 admin N A N A Imported Close It shows general report information UUID owner creation date The Close button on the lower right corner closes this window 7 17 1 Action log Under Action log there is information about any actions taken on the report In the example picture above the report was imported by the admin on the 21 of January 2014 Action log Date User 2014 01 21 12 10 53 0200 admin N A N A Imported 7 17 2 Edited values If the report has been edited the Edited values field will be shown It contains information about the field name of the edited value original value and the edited value Edited values BIOS date 09 16 05 09 16 02 Close d blancco 48 90 Restore original report ue 7 17 3 Restore reports The original report can be restored by pressing the Restore original report button Pressing the Restore original report button will open the following dialog Restore reports Are you sure you wish to restore the selected report Heni name LITA WAN Fen WAIE Pressing
57. er gt Select Properties gt Select Advanced system settings gt Select the Advanced tab gt Click on Environment variables Environment Variables Path C Program Files Java jre pin TEMP SoU SERPROFILE AppData Local Temp TMP SU SERPROFILE AppData Local Temp Windows MT E C Windows system32 C Windows C PATHEXT SOM EXE NBAT p CMD VES VBE Ir PROCESSOR A AMD64 ee een ee Scroll down in System variables and double click on Path Add the following to the end of the path string C Program Files x86 Java jre7 bin C Program Files x86 Java jre7 lib Hee Bde d s blancco 74 90 Edit System Variable Variable name Path Variable value ava jre7 bin C Program Files Java jre7Wibl zs JI ens 12 7 2 Changing JRE memory allocation Java memory settings can be changed by editing the wrapper conf file located in Installation path servicewrapper yajsw conf folder Values to modify are Xms256m Xmx1 024m wrapper java additional 1 5 ee 7 ahve eelne spets Ihe Ibn Note Xmx value needs to be 4 times bigger than Xms value e g if you have Xms1024m then you need to have Xmx4096m Please restart the BMC service in order to apply the changes See the Restart BMC service for detailed instructions ue d blancco 75 90 12 8 System default report views Report views have the following default
58. fields shown 12 8 1 AIl reports Date Erasure state Disk serial Disk capacity Memory capacity Product Name Report verification Description Date when the erasure was performed e g 2010 06 15 20 03 State of the erasure e g Successful Serial number of the erased disk e g EC98L8F Capacity formatted of the erased disk e g 3926 MB Capacity formatted of the memory e g 2048 MB Name of the Blancco software that was used e g Blancco 5 Verification status of the report true or false 12 8 2 Computer reports Date Erasure state Disk serial Disk capacity Memory capacity Product Name Report verification Description Date when the erasure was performed e g 2010 06 15 20 03 State of the erasure e g Successful Serial number of the erased disk e g EC98L8F Capacity formatted of the erased disk e g 3926 MB Capacity formatted of the memory e g 2048 MB Name of the Blancco software that was used e g Blancco 5 Verification status of the report true or false 12 8 3 Mobile reports Date Erasure state Erasure standard name Disk capacity System manufacturer System model Mobile identifier Mobile wireless operator Operating system version Report verification 12 8 4 LUN reports Date Erasure state Disk serial Disk capacity Disk vendor Disk model Erasure tar
59. ge shows which packs are going to be installed Click Next to continue Ei IzPack Installation of Blancco Management Console TI 1911011818108 181 Se blancco 111011011181010110 MANAGEMENT CONSOLE 8100181818101 198 8 88 Select the packs you want to install 9 Note Grayed packs are reguired Documentation Application 408 49 MB Description Dependencies and tools Total space Required 495 85 MB Available space 128 79 GB SS blancco 14 90 f During the update process the HASP key driver will be updated The following dialog will be shown Click Yes to continue Sentinel Runtime Sentinel Runtime Version 6 0 1 22095 ts already installed You must uninstall the existing version before installing Sentinel Runtime Version 6 4 1 32979 Do you want to uninstall the existing version of Sentinel Runtime Yes No g Updating of the files and drivers for BMC is now complete Click Next to continue to the final page FJ IzPack Installation of Blancco Management Console o gt wee 1011811618100110 zc blancco MAMAAALJALTERUTESEAKT MANAGEMENT CONSOLE 6100181018101 18919 2 Pack installation progress 2 Overall installation progress h Select the shortcuts to be created Click Next to continue to the final page EA TI 101101101810811 181 sc blancco WACHT MANAGEMENT CONSOLE 0100181018101 TAGID Ei IzPack Installation of Blancco
60. get path File Operating system computer name Report verification Hee Bde SS blancco Description Date when the erasure was performed e g 2010 06 15 20 03 State of the erasure e g Successful Erasure standard used to perform the erasure e g HMG Infosec Standard 5 Lower Standard Factory reset or CDMA erasure Capacity formatted of the erased disk e g 3926 MB Manufacturer of the mobile device e g Samsung Model name of the mobile device e g GT I9000 Identifier of the erased mobile device e g IMEI 1983472192 Name of the mobile wireless operator of the mobile device e g O2 Version of the OS running in the mobile device e g iOS 5 1 1 Verification status of the report true or false Description Date when the erasure was performed e g 2010 06 15 20 03 State of the erasure e g Successful Serial number of the erased disk e g EC98L8F Capacity formatted of the erased disk e g 3926 MB Manufacturer of the erased disk e g Kingston Model of the erased disk e g DataTraveler G3 Target path of the erased disk e g dev sda1 Computer name on which Blancco LUN was executed e g WIN 12345 Verification status of the report rue or false 76 90 12 8 5 File reports Description Date Date when the shredding was performed e g 2010 06 15
61. h J Uninstaller uninstaller jar Example ajama Jar usr locall BMC Uninstalver umimnstal mat The following windows will be displayed E IzPack Uninstaller ki This will remove the installed application Force the deletion of C Program Files Blancco Blancco Management Console If you wish to remove content of the installation folder select the Force the deletion of option Click the Uninstall button to proceed with the uninstallation Wee Bde SS blancco 65 90 Note Uninstalling BMC may take several minutes E IzPack Uninstaller This will remove the installed application Force the deletion of C Program Files Blancco Blancco Management Console Finished The uninstallation now been completed Click Quit to close the Uninstaller window 10 3 Clean up the installation folder After the uninstallation has completed the BMC installation folder may still need to be removed Locate the folder usually under C Program Files Blancco and remove it ue SS blancco 66 90 11 TROUBLESHOOTING 11 1 Common problems User is not able to login to BMC with a user belonging to the security group that is linked to the Administrator role HTTP 404 The requested resource is not available MC 3 has started but licenses are not detected HASP is not reachable Please connect HASP USB dongle to the server MC 3 has started but t
62. he user cannot login UserDetailsService returned null which is an interface contract violation MC 3 has started but reports are not displayed Server error while fetching reports Windows server When starting the BMC service a Java related error message Is shown usually referring to something related to Java which is missing Blancco Erasure Software informs that no licenses are available to use the product Windows server Blancco Management Console login page Is not displayed Only a browser Ha Bee 90 blancco Try entering the username in ALL CAPS Error is caused by the database service starting after BMC service Restarting the BMC service will solve this issue In Windows changing the startup type of the service to Automatic delayed Start will help prevent this issue In Linux services are started in a pre defined order make sure that the BMC service is set to start after the database service Connect the license dongle to the computer and restart the BMC 3 service It is recommended to always connect the HASP key at the moment when the BMC service is started If restarting the service does not help the user can also test connecting the HASP key to another USB port and try restarting the service again To restart the BMC service please refer to the Restart BMC service section of the Appendix This issue happens when the database service is stopped and BMC 3 cannot verify user cre
63. he last day the licenses can be used 8 3 1 License synchronization All license information is stored in two locations in the license container HASP and in the MC s database If the license information in the container is changed and the same change has not been applied to the database the license information will become unsynchronized In this situation synchronization must be done Synchronization will fix any inconsistencies between the database and container license information Synchronization will be done when e Management Console Service has been started restarted e License s have been activated e The Synchronize button has been clicked The date and time of the last synchronization will be shown under the My licenses dropdown menu The Synchronize and Force synchronization buttons are located next to My licenses My licenses Synchronize Last synchronization at 2014 05 28 08 53 12 If this unsynchronization affects assigned licenses then the license information may become conflicted The Force synchronization button will be activated only when there are conflicting products after synchronization has been done but no unsynchronized licenses ue SS blancco 58 90 My licenses T Synchronize Force synchronization Last synchronization at 2014 05 28 11 48 43 In the screenshot below Blancco Server Edition and Blancco Mobile licenses are in a conflicted state The conflicted licenses are highlighted in red and italics
64. ields available in the erasure report Note There are some special fields see the Filtering report with special fields section of the Appendix Comparison Comparison operator used for the search Valid operators are shown in the operator dropdown list Not equal Contains Not contain Starts with Ends with lt and gt lt 2 are the complete list of operators The list of available operators may differ between selected fields Text field where the value of search needs to be input The bottom of the window has the buttons Save which saves the current view Delete which deletes the current view and Cancel which cancels all the changes made 7 2 5 View options This option is used to select between the report modes There are two report modes available from the dropdown menu Original values and Edited values Hee Bde SS blancco 37 90 In Original reports mode only the original report values will be shown even if the report has been edited In the Edited reports mode if a report has been edited then its edited values will be shown and will affect searches if those values are shown in the view This also will affectthe search results 7 3 Manage existing report views Existing report views can be managed by clicking the Manage menu button available on the right side of the currently selected view name 7 3 1 Edit This option i
65. ing the CTRL or SHIFT keys and clicking the gt or lt buttons SS blancco 29 90 5 3 Default widgets 5 3 1 Login details Login details text This widget contains information about the user that is currently logged in It also contains information about the last time the user logged in and how many erasures were performed by this user since the last login Login details Name Ni A N A ad min Last login 2014 01 31 10 21 57 Completed erasures Since last login U 5 3 2 All time erasure statistics This widget has the statistics of all successfully completed erasures It lists started erasures total number of started erasures erasures completed target number of successfully completed erasures without exceptions total number of started erasures erasures failed number of failed erasures and erasures with exceptions number of erasures completed with some kind of exception All time erasure statistics 86 rted erasures ca ompleted successfully Started erasures 142 Erasures 122 142 completed target Erasures failed 15 Erasures with 5 exceptions 5 3 3 Average HDD size Average values of HDDs are shown here SS blancco 30 90 Average HDD size Average HDD size in GB per year al Ln 20 e de 10 5 3 4 Available licenses All the available licenses for the current user are listed here It shows the name of the product under Product name
66. logging in to the Blancco Management Console the My Blanccotab will be shown A default dashboard My dashboard will be shown with a view of all 6 available widgets My dashboard Login details Name N A N A admin Last login 2014 01 31 10 27 13 Completed erasures Since last login 0 Available licenses Product Available Expiration name licenses date 2013 12 31 Blancco Demo 100 23 00 Blancco Asset Manager 100 2013 12 31 Blancco 5 23 00 Asset Blancco PC Edition 285 2013 12 31 23 00 Blancco 5 5 1 New dashboard To create new customized dashboards pressthe New dashboard button New dashboard All time erasure statistics 86 of started erasures completed successfully Started erasures 142 Erasures 122 142 completed target Erasures failed 15 Erasures with 5 exceptions Consumed licenses No data to display This will then open the Create new dashboard dialog Create new dashboard Name Description Widgets Available widgets q All time erasure statistics Available licenses Average HOD size Consumed licenses Import Reports Login details Create new dashboard has the following fields Hee Bee 90 blancco Average HDD size Average HDD size in GB per year Import reports You can guickly import reports by using the import widget Click on the import button to open the report importing dialog 27 90 e Name Name of the dashboard e Desc
67. ng reports VIEW Viewing reports STATISTICS STATISTICS Right to view the statistics screen CREATE Creating users DELETE Deleting users EDIT Editing users LIST Listing users ROLE CREATE Creating roles ROLE DELETE Deleting roles ROLE EDIT Editing roles SYSTEM LOGIN Right to login to the BMC CONFIGURATION Right to configure system settings WIDGET CUSTOMIZE_WIDGET Right to manage widgets 12 13 1 Default Role authorities The three default roles ROLE ADMIN ROLE_GROUPADMIN and ROLE USER have the following authorities as default values Wee Bde SS blancco 85 90 ROLE GROUPADMIN GROUP Create Delete and Edit LICENSE Consume Export View PROCESS Management Create Delete Email Export CSV Export PDF Export XML Import Print and REPORT View STATISTICS Statistics USER Create Delete Edit List SYSTEM Login ROLE USER LICENSE Consume View Create Delete Email Export CSV Export PDF Export XML Import Print and View STATISTICS Statistics USER List SYSTEM Login REPORT 12 14 Filtering report with special fields 12 14 1 Product name When filtering with Product Name field the software actually refers to the Product IDs so it is necessary to search with product IDs Below is a list of all Blancco product ID s Example Product name 4 this will filter all Blancco Server Edition reports Product name Product ID Blancco Demo 1
68. nsfer protocol known for its simplicity Compared to FTP TFTP is extremely limited providing no authentication and is rarely used interactively by a user Windows Deployment Services is a technology from Microsoft for network based installation of Windows operating systems It is also used in order to deploy Blancco erasure software over the network SS blancco 2 90 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Blancco Management Console Requirements manna annan annan annan enn anna 8 1 1 Smaller operations demo and test purposes 0nnrvuvru nunna nunna manna manna annan annan 8 1 2 AO OP CONS ts aiamaad aanus aaa n a pine mai aasia ii aa aada es 8 1 3 Software Service reOulrermente NK ANE ANE NENNEN ENNER NENNEN NENNEN NN 9 Sa EH ee E enge TEE 10 2 1 System preparation A amaaniks aja ausa ea a aia ala a kaia austati 10 PA AN GU ele WE 10 E E PEC TIME TE Te A Ea aasa alana lan ika maasika a sigi lai e ce 11 PENN e OO 9 13 PANE geint Le le Le AEA AAA A A E E 17 2 0 1 Port Ee de lna ER aa sane ia aata cadeeaeeweweseoreese EE 17 2 3 2 Database amp Authentication Selection nnvnvnvnenunva nen nnna nen n avane nan anna 17 2 3 3 Database Configuration cccscecssersserscerscersceeeuseeuseeuseeuteeuteeuneeuseeunireserscenecees 19 2 3 4 Authentication Configuration E 20 2 4 Installation Complete ccccsssecsscrssceusacerscccrsusecuaneresencusersasercarsevasersasensansesesrensers 22 x HOGI ei Aaa AO T E
69. of the user Role s what role s user has and Email email address of the user In the top left corner of the list there is a dropdown menu which can be selected if the listing is done by group or name 55 td Notifications 0 v EE Language English v Help amp admin e blancco Blancco Management Console Version 3 2 0 MY BLANCCO PROCESS MANAGEMENT REPORTING USERS amp LICENSING ADMINISTRATION 8 3 e 8 a o R l z Group User Role s Email Example Coi UserOne ROLE_USER userone example com Q Licenses Example Co UserTwo ROLE_USER usertwo example com E Example Co admin N A N A ROLE_ADMIN example example com j 1 30f3 2 Hee Bde SS blancco 52 90 8 1 1 Create new user group New users and groups can be created by clicking the New User or New group buttons This brings up the following window Create new group Group attributes GROUP NAME Example GROUP DESCRIPTION Example Company GROUP REPORTS El Share reports between users of the same group Group administrator account EMAIL LICENSES USERNAME Shared licenses 200 Individual licenses FIRST NAME MO LAST NAME User PASSWORD RE TYPE PASSWORD USER ROLE S E 5 W ROLE ADMIN C ROLE GROUPADMIN E ROLE USER ACCOUNT STATUS W Active Save Cancel The New user and New Group windows contain the following fields Some fields are the same
70. ort mode This field determines the report mode In Original reports mode only the original report values will be shown even if the report has been edited In the Edited reports mode if a report has been edited then its edited values will be shown and they will affect searches if those values are shown in the view 7 2 3 View columns Columns is used to select which fields will be shown in the view There are two selection boxes and several buttons in this view Available columns lists all available report columns Selected columns lists all selected report columns gt will add the selected columns to the view will remove the selected columns from the view will move the selected columns to the top of the list first column in the view will move the selected columns up in the list moving left in the view will move the selected columns down in the list moving right in the view will move the selected columns to the bottom of the list last column in the view 7 2 4 View filters This option is used to create advanced filters for the current view Description Filter the reports by date This can be set to either All reports no filtering by date Today Yesterday This week Last week This month Last year or Custom When Custom is selected the date can be defined by using the FROM and TO date values from the calendar buttons Lists all f
71. orting Users amp licensing and Administration Inthe header area information is also available about the user currently logged in the language in use a Help button a notification area and a Logout button 4 1 1 Language selection BMC can be used in 6 different languages English US French German Japanese Russian and Spanish Click the Language button to switch between languages 4 1 2 Help Clicking the Help button will open a PDF version of this user manual in a new tab window of the browser 4 1 3 Notification area The notification area displays notifications whenever an action such as Export all reports has been completed Click the Notification button to view the notification area Unread notifications will appear in red and the amount of unread notifications will be shown between the parentheses E g Notifications 3 means that there are 3 unread notifications 4 2 Process area The process area contains tab specific sub menus ue SS blancco 25 90 E g the Reporting tab process area contains different report views and statistics while the Users amp licensing tab contains a sub menu for managing users and groups and another sub menu for viewing and activating licenses 4 3 Work area The work area contains all the specific information and functionalities of the selected sub menu ue SS blancco 26 90 5 MY BLANCCO As a default when
72. ports 1 View 2009 02 10 14 39 Successful NR29T58268GM 40 GB 512 MiB 0 Degausser reports A View Y 2009 02 10 14 31 Successful NR29T58268LP 40 GB 512 MiB D Es View Y 2009 02 10 14 30 Successful NR29T58267SR 40 GB 512 MiB th Statistics A View Y 2009 02 10 14 28 Successful NR29T57262F5 40 GB 512 MiB A View Y 2009 02 10 14 29 Successful NR29T58268PB 40 GB 512 MiB 154 reports Page 1 of16 gt gt X Reports per page Auto 10 25 50 100 7 1 Report view management On the left panel report views are listed There are 7 system default views All reports Computer reports Mobile reports LUN reports File reports Flash reports and Degausser reports Custom views can also be created by clicking the Create view button More information about the system default report views can be found from the System default report views section of the Appendix 7 2 Create new report views Custom report views can be created by clicking the Create view button NAME REPORT MODE Original values D Available columns Selected columns BIOS date BIOS serial Business location Business name CPU maximum cores DATE All reports Custom From To Select field D Hee 2 SS blancco 36 90 7 2 1 View name The Name field is the view s name This field is mandatory and unique 2 views with the same name cannot be created The maximum length of this field is 32 characters 7 2 2 Rep
73. re displayed here Application name Application version Application revision Java vendor Java version Hee Bde Description Name of the application Blancco Management Console is the default value Version of the software used Revision of the application Vendor of the Java used in the machine running the BMC Version of the Java used in the machine running the BMC SS blancco 63 90 10 UNINSTALLATION If there is a need to uninstall the BMC make sure that you have backed up all data that you want to keep e g erasure reports log files 10 1 Back up important data In order to be sure that you do not lose any important data after uninstalling the BMC copy the whole Blancco Management Console folder and also the database used to a secure external location e g shared folder external USB memory or HDD Backing up the database might reguire the use of Database software specific tools Please read the relevant user manual to perform this action 10 2 Run the uninstall script 10 2 1 Windows OS Uninstall the BMC by clicking the Uninstall Blancco Management Console shortcut The shortcut can be found by clicking Start icon gt All Programs gt Blancco gt Blancco Management Console gt Uninstall Blancco Management Console Important Make sure to run the uninstaller with Administrator rights e g right click run as Administrator Gi Uninstall Blanc
74. readPool keystoreFile conf keystore jks keystorePass mchammer PrOLoOcol ordg apache covyore EE II Herp ile EE escheme heros SsSecure T true sel 290 OLS E lt Connector executor tomcatThreadPool port 8009 protocol AJP 1 3 redirect Port 8443 gt Please save all of your changes to the server xml file Then restart Blancco Management Console For instructions on how to restart the Blancco Management Console please refer to the Restart BMC service section of the Appendix ue SS blancco 73 90 12 7 Configuring JAVA options If you have problems executing the jar installation package complete the following steps Windows systems a Check that the Java Runtime Environment path has been added to the Windows operating system s environmental variables b Start menu gt Right click Computer gt Properties gt Advanced System settings gt Advanced tab gt Environment variables gt System variables gt Scroll down and double click on Path or c Start menu gt cmd gt write path and press the Enter key d If there is no mention of Java add the location of your JRE bin and lib folder to the path string For example add the following to the end of the path string C Program Files x86 Java jre7 bin C Program Files x86 Java jre7 lib 12 7 1 Add JRE path to the system environment variables Click on Start menu gt Right click on Comput
75. ription Description of the dashboard e Available widgets List of widgets available but not yet being used for the dashboard Search field can be used to search the list e Selected widgets Widgets selected for the dashboard Search field can be used to search the list The buttons next to the widget fields have the following functionalities 6 wm e Ki 4 Ki 4 will add the selected widget to the screen will remove the selected widget from the screen will move the selected widget to the top of the list first widget on the screen will move the selected widget up in the list will move the selected widget down in the list will move the selected widget to the bottom of the list last widget on the screen To save the dashboard press Save Pressing Cancel exits the dialog without saving any changes Dashboards are saved in the database separately for each user Dashboards with same name cannot be created but different users can have dashboards with same name If the new dashboard was saved it will be available from the dashboard list New dashboard SR My dashboard CO New 1 4 New 2 5 2 Manage dashboard You can manage your existing dashboards by clicking the Manage dashboard button Manag ue e dashboard d blancco 28 90 Upon clicking the button the following menu will appear Manage dashboard Edit Delete Delete will delete the current dashboard Edit will open the
76. roup Admins Group 1 In this group licenses are shared among users that are using same license pool Group Admin One shared pool of 50 licenses of Blancco 5 Unlimited access User One access to Group Admin One s shared pool of 50 licenses User Two access to Group Admin One s shared pool of 50 licenses User Three access to Group Admin One s shared pool of 50 licenses User Four access to Group Admin One s shared pool of 50 licenses Group 2 In this group the admin assigns a setamount of licenses to users Group Admin Two 50 licenses of Blancco 5 which he gives to users as follows Limited access User Five has 15 licenses of Blancco 5 User Six has 15 licenses of Blancco 5 User Seven has 20 licenses of Blancco 5 Group 1 Group 2 Shared Pool of Licenses Individual Licenses 227 4 NSS m i 4 XN n gare N Sm a 7 N kr j V Hee Bde SS blancco 83 90 12 12 Example of Forced Synchronization The situation e Before synchronization the amount of licenses in the container was egual to 100 o Forsome reason the HASP key has been changed updated and now the amount of licenses in the container is down to 10 e Admin has assigned 50 licenses to Group1 o Groupi has assigned 20 licenses to User2 Thus Groupi licenses being 30 and Admin licenses being 50 With the change in license amount either admin reduces the amount of licenses assigned to both Group1 and User2 or he clicks on Force syn
77. roups Previous next aut Name Provider host Provider protocol Provider port Provider DN Provider account DN Username Password User search base Role search base Bee Bde Example 192 168 56 101 LDAP 3268 dc example dc com userlogonname example c om domain_admin VeryStrongPassword ou BMC users ou BMC security groups SS blancco Description LDAP server address Mandatory field Choose between LDAP and LDAPS Secure LDAP The default value of the provider port will change depending on the protocol selected LDAP server port Mandatory field Provider s distinguished name Mandatory field Full distinguished name DN ofthe accountthatthe application uses to read information from LDAP Mandatory field sAMAccountName of the account that the application uses to read information from LDAP Mandatory field Password for the aforementioned account Mandatory field An organizational unit or group that is used as base node for a user search in the LDAP This field is mandatory when the ports 389 LDAP or 636 LDAPS are used If ports 3268 LDAP GC or 3269 LDAP GC SSL are used this field can be left empty the search will be done through the whole LDAP Global Catalog Organizational unit or group that is used as base node for a security group search in the LDAP This field is mandatory if the ports 389 LDAP or 636 LDAPS are used If ports 3268
78. s boxes Search results are automatically displayed in the box below Tip there is no need to press the Enter key to execute the search the search will be performed as you type Record and sub record separators can also be set Default values are and ue SS blancco 42 90 More information about searching through filtered lists can be found from the Searching fields in a filtered list section of the Appendix 7 12 Email reports It is possible to email Blancco erasure reports in several formats Available formats are XML PDF and CSV If the report mode has been set to Original reports the original version of the reports will be sent even if they have been edited If the mode has been set to Edited reports then the edited version will be sent Several options are available when emailing a report such as the email recipient email subject and attachment s name When emailing a report s in CSV format several options are available Please refer to the Export reports in CSV format section for more details Email reports Please select the report and email options to proceed Report options REPORT FORMAT AML REPORT MODE Original values RECEIVER EMAIL TO ATTACHMENT NAME report s MESSAGE CONTENT Erasure reports sent from Blancco Management Console 7 13 Print reports It is possible to print Blancco erasure reports Select the report s to be printed and click the Print
79. s Mandatory field User DatabaseUser User name used for accessing the database Mandatory field Password DatabasePassword Password used for accessing the database Mandatory field Note If you have several instances of Microsoft SQL Server input the server name or address in the Host field and the instance s port number in the Port field Also disabling dynamic ports will be required Hee Bde SS blancco 19 90 2 3 4 Authentication Configuration 2 3 4 1 Internal Authentication This screen will be shown if internal authentication is selected Fill in the authentication information and click Next to continue Ei IzPack Installation of Blancco Management Console ale X a gee Bee bee MANAGEMENT CONSOLE blancco owl 1011811818100110 111011011101010118 10100101018101 188181 Authentication configuration Please enter user details for internal authentication Administrator account username First name Lastname Email address Password Re type password Company name Description Mandatory fields admin John Doe example e eeeeee ITIITI Example com Example com example com pany E Previous auit Administrator account username First name Last name Email address Password Re type password Company name Description Ha Bee 90 Example John Doe exampleEmailA ddress example com VeryS
80. s used to edit the settings of the currently selected view 7 3 2 Delete This option is used to delete the currently selected view 7 4 Report mode Here the current report mode will be shown In Original reports mode only the original report values will be shown even ifthe report has been edited In the Edited reports mode if a report has been edited then its edited values will be shown which will affect searches if those values are shown in the view This also will affectthe search results 7 5 Ouick search Quick search allows quick filtering of reports Quick search only allows searches of values in the active columns There are some fields that cannot be searched see a detailed list in the 12 13 Filtering report with special fields section of the Appendix amp LICENSING ADMINISTRATION 5 a The search can be expanded by using a wildcard symbol The symbol can be placed in front or after the search string For example searching for the term Intel would give all the reports which have terms like Intel Intel Xeon Intelligent etc The term Y Intel would give the previous responses and also the following Xeon Intel NvidiaIntelMotherboard etc The report mode shown after Report mode also affects the search results In Original reports mode only the original report values will be shown even with edited reports In the Edited reports mode if a report has
81. sition 2 BIOS date position 1 Disk capacity position 4 Report date position 3 Explanation Erasure state is now on the top of the column list The columns CPU model and Disk capacity have held their original positions in the list as they were not filtered by the search The order of the Erasure state BIOS date and Report date columns in the unfiltered list will be the same as in the filtered list Erasure state will be on top of BIOS date and BIOS date will be on top of Report date Hee Bde d s blancco 78 90 12 10 Restart BMC service There are several methods to restart the BMC service 12 10 1 Restart using application shortcuts Windows only 12 10 1 1 Stop BMC service Stop the BMC service by clicking the Stop Blancco Management Console shortcut The shortcut can be found by clicking Start icon gt All Programs gt Blancco gt Blancco Management Console gt Stop Blancco Management Console Stop Blancco Management Console A command prompt window appears on the screen Wait until the message The Blancco Management Console service was stopped successfully Press any key to continue will be displayed on the screen administrator rights ves to continue opped successt A k Press any key e g Enter or Space key The command prompt window will automatically
82. size and backups can be configured in the following way To edit the log files maximum size edit the aforementioned file log4j properties and find the line logging max_filesize 1024KB The default maximum size is 1 megabyte 1024 kilobytes as shown above To change the maximum size change the number before KB for example a 10 megabyte file would be logging max_filesize 10240KB ue SS blancco 68 90 11 3 3 Backing up log files Normally when the maximum file size is reached the content of the log file will be deleted and any new entries started from the beginning Blancco Management Console can make a backup of the log files so that whenever the maximum size for a log file is reached the current file will be copied into a backup file To turn the backup feature on open the aforementioned file log4j properties and find the line logging max_backupindex 0 0 means that the backup feature is off 1 means that the feature is on and one backup file will be kept 2 means that the feature is on and two backup files will be kept etc The naming of these files follows the following convention logtilename log current logtilename log 1 newest backup logfilename log 2 second newest When the current log file has reached its maximum size it will be copied into the backup file og 1 This backup will in turn be copied into og Z etc The oldest backup will be overwritten with the con
83. t BMC restart Or by running the following shell scripts He Bde SS blancco 80 90 7 SUC 252 Sae sa 4 Sue Ier James SA These scripts are available in the installation folder Similar messages than shown above will be shown Press the Enter key to return to the command prompt 12 11 Example for Managing Roles Groups and Licenses If there are only a few users the easiest way to use BMC is just to use the admin account to create one user ROLE USER to complete all tasks with The admin account should only be used for configuring BMC and users If there are multiple users they should be separated into the following categories The admin usually has all the rights in to the system and to the licenses His main focus should be creating group admins and distributing licenses to group admins In this example the admin creates two groups Group 1 and Group 2 and assigns them as Group Administrators GroupAdminOne and GroupAdminT wo who both get 50 licenses of the Blancco 5 product and ROLE_GROUPADMIN and ROLE USER roles Create new group Group attributes GROUP NAME Group 1 GROUP DESCRIPTION GROUP REPORTS I Share reports between users of the LOUD a dministrator account EMAIL groupone example com LICENSES Individual licenses e V License Details Product name as E Blancco Demo 0 0 Blancco Asset Manager Blancco 5 Asset 0 0 Blancco PC Edition Blancco
84. tent of the second oldest backup If the logging max_backupindex would have a value of 15 then the oldest backup file s name would end in og 15 11 4 Contacting Support If the problem persists please compress these logs into an archive package e g zip file or rar file and fill out the support form at Blancco s support portal http support blancco com Submit a Ticket with a detailed description of the problem Add the logs as an attachment For contact information please view the Contact Information page Hee Bde SS blancco 69 90 12 APPENDIX 12 1 Database Maintenance The standard database maintenance processes should include the following e Monitoring the growth of the log file and compacting the database log file as needed o Please seethe documentation for the database regarding appropriate log file sizes and log file management e Scheduling regular backups of the database e Backing up the database before any Blancco Management Console update The database used to store the reports should be maintained to keep the Blancco Management Console running smoothly A correctly maintained database will be much more stable than an unmaintained one For more information about the databases and how to maintain them appropriate log file sizes and log file management please see the documentation for the database 12 1 1 MySQL users If a MySQL database older than 5 5 is used make sure that
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86. the Blancco Management Console Integration to 3 party applications using direct database queries should be avoided During a version update of BMC there may be changes applied to the database structure but the web services functionalities will remain the same Example integration https Integration request for webservice xm script application Blancco Management Console S J M S M response from webservice xm csv 3rd party Database software The example above describes the general flow of the integration process The integration script not provided by Blancco sends a reguest to Blancco Management Console s web service with the reguired parameters Blancco Management Console processes the given parameters and returns the matching results in the format specified by the parameters The same integration script represented above then transforms converts the data in a compatible format for further integration to the 3rd party software Blancco does not provide solutions such as integration scripts or support such as implementation of the integration process The user needs to manage their own environment or seek the assistance of an expert Examples and technical documentation can be found in Blancco Management Console s installation folder Installation folder doc integration_package ue SS blancco 89 90 14 CONTACT INFORMATION Visit the technical knowledgebase FAO and contact Blancco Te
87. the default storage engine is set to InnoDB If the default storage engine is different please change it to InnoDB If MySQL 5 5 or later version is used this won t necessary as version 5 5 or newer already uses InnoDB as the default engine 12 2 Installing HASP drivers in Linux a After the installation finishes do not start the services un tick the box Start Blancco Management Console service b Install the HASP driver found under BMC installation folder Installation path drivers hasp linux c Start BMC service 12 2 1 Reguirements for 64bit OS If BMCis installed on a 64 bit Operating System then the following library needs to be installed in the system glibc 1686 12 2 2 Redhat based distributions This applies for Redhat CentOS and Fedora Within the installation folder execute the following command if Suclo wou Aa cleaves lassie at BIAS Si ID 3 oS eeldas JE loot ost aset Mere Jalsusse edlei lL 5 43 5 Sei esi 12 2 3 Debian based distributions This applies for Ubuntu and Debian Within the installation folder execute the following command a sele Croke a Bee Bde d s blancco 70 90 Geer aags l10at Seaeiiel JAS Vima De Poncin aseelilss aksusee 1 16 1 1389 e On 64 bit Operating Systems the force architecture parameter must be used in order to install the drivers successfully t sudo dpkg A force BEES E EE let ese eme eren mee HAS ee at OH kaemas iseelies aksuslsd 141
88. tion Please select the type of database to configure Embedded database e Please select the type of authentication Internal w a Supported databases are o Embedded database o Microsoft SOL Server 2008 or newer o MySQL 5 x or newer o PostgreSQL 8 x or newer WARNING The embedded database is best suited for demo and smaller operational environments WE DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS DATABASE FOR MEDIUM TO LARGE PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS b Supported authentication types are o Internal authentication managed from the database o External authentication managed externally requires LDAP ue SS blancco 18 90 2 3 3 Database Configuration Fill in the database information and click Next Every field is mandatory If the Embedded database was chosen this screen will not be shown as it will be automatically configured Ei IzPack Installation of Blancco Management Console d z e 99118114118101081181 zc blancco 110111011011101010110 MANAGEMENT CONSOLE 10100101018101 18818 Database configuration Please enter the configuration for MySQL 5 x Host Database name Port 3306 User Password Mandatory fields Previous SC Next uit Description Host 192 168 0 2 Host name or IP address Mandatory field Database name ExampleDatabase Name of the database Mandatory field Port 4321 Port the database software use
89. tion should be activated in the legacy client software image Only minimal information on the ongoing erasure session creation date erasure identifier and a progress bar are available Depending on the settings in the legacy client software image the erasure report might need to be sent to the BMC manually remotely fetching the erasure report from BMC will not be possible Chent Identifier Product Session created Status Manufacturer Serial Size Type Test 07114 Legacy N A 2014 06 25 14 34 096 N A N A N A N A 0266696853 Legacy N A 2014 06 25 14 39 034 N A N A N A N A 3 bl See ancco 35 90 REPORTING TAB This tab will display all the Blancco reports from the database as Notifications 0 v SE Language English v Help 4 admin v blancco Blancco Management Console Version 3 2 0 sii MY BLANCCO PROCESS MANAGEMENT REPORTING USERS amp LICENSING ADMINISTRATION EI ESSO Gei Am SE a DEFAULT VIEWS Report mode Original values T Date Erasure state Disk serial Disk capacity Memory ca All reports SA A View Y 2009 02 10 15 35 Successful NR29T58268P7 40 GB 512 MiB Computer reports A View Y 2009 02 10 15 34 Successful NR29T58268M2 40 GB 512 MiB Mobile reports i View Y 2009 02 10 15 31 Successful 07Z 10L903854 60 GB 512 MiB LUN reports i A View Y 2009 02 10 15 22 Successful NR29T58268LM 40 GB 512 MiB en File reports 4 P i View Y 2009 02 10 15 21 Successful 5LX0854X 40 GB 512 MiB 7 Flash re
90. trongPassword VeryStrongPassword Example Company This isan example description of the example company blancco Description User name for the administrator account Must be 5 64 characters long Mandatory field First name of the administrator Last name of the administrator Email address of the administrator Password for the administrator account Must be 6 64 characters long Mandatory field Re type the password for the administrator account Mandatory field Name of the company Mandatory field Description of the aforementioned company 20 90 2 3 4 2 Ei IzPack Installation of Blancco Management Console External Authentication This screen will be shown if external authentication has been selected Fill in the authentication information and click Next to continue gt blancco MANAGEMENT CONSOLE 0 99110114118101881181 111011011181010118 14100101018101 188181 Authentication configuration Please enter user details for external authentication Provider host 192 168 56 101 Provider protocol LDAP w Provider port 3268 Provider DN Provider account DN dc example dc com Username domain admin User search base ou BMC users Role search base Role filter member 0 Admininistrator role name bmc_admins Mandatory fields cn Domain Admin cn Users dc example dc com Password j eeeeseeceeccccesece ou BMC_security_g
91. up Shared licenses means that the user or group has access to all the licenses available from the managing account Individual licenses means that licenses are assigned individually Licenses can be configured by clicking the Details options In order to assign licenses expand the Details option and select the desired product from the list and fill in the amount of licenses to be assigned If the managing account has 100 licenses and the administrator gives the two users under it Shared licenses access to these licenses every time these two users use licenses they will be deducted from the 100 licenses the managing account has So if one user uses 10 licenses and the other user uses 15 licenses then the total amount of licenses the managing account has will be reduced to 75 100 15 10 75 If the managing account has 100 licenses and the accounts administrator decides to distribute them by giving one user 30 licenses with Individual licenses access then the managing account would have 70 licenses available 100 30 70 The screenshot below shows how licenses are distributed by a managing account if Individual licenses access to licenses is given to the user In the picture the user has been only given access to 44 out of 194 Blancco Server Edition licenses ue SS blancco 54 90 Create new user EMAIL exampleuser example com GROUP Example Company E LICENSES Individual licenses e
92. w SEET ek Ee gudo EE El BMC restart 12 3 Checking HASP connectivity To check if your machine detects the HASP dongle correctly or not follow the steps below a Make sure that the HASP dongle is connected to the machine b Open your browser and go to the address http localhost 1947 c Safenet s Sentinel Admin Control Center page will open d Click on the Sentinel Keys in the left corner e If you can see your HASP dongle on the list the key is correctly detected by the machine Has 2 blancco 71 90 12 4 Erasure verification The Blancco 5 users can selectthe level of verification of the erasure The verification process reads data at identical intervals across the whole drive s surface and makes sure that the erasure s overwriting patterns were written correctly The minimum verification corresponds to checking 1 of the surface of the drive fastest process while the full verification corresponds to checking 100 of the surface of the drive slower process Taking samples at identical intervals across the drive s surface will efficiently detect any problems in the erasure while being faster than reading all the overwritten data The Blancco 5 users can increase the level of verification from the default 1 all the way up to 100 full verification when a higher level of security is required If the verification finds any data left on the drive overwriting patterns are missing it will alert the user th
93. www blancco com en contact us for contacting your nearest Blancco representative It is recommended that the USB HASP dongle always be plugged in to the machine while operating the Blancco Management Console as there are multiple operations which will require it ue SS blancco 24 90 4 BLANCCO MANAGEMENT CONSOLE USER INTERFACE Blancco Management Console s user interface is divided into three main areas the header area the process area and the work area SS blancco 3lancco Management Console Version 3 2 1 Header area All reports Report mode Original values Disk serial hd 2009 02 10 15 35 Successful NR29T58268P7 40 G 512 MiB z 2009 02 10 15 34 ucoesstui NR29T58268M2 40 G 512 MiB X 2009 02 10 15 31 Successful 07Z310L903854 OG 512 MiB X 2009 02 10 15 22 ucoesstul NR29T58268LM 40 G 512 MiB v 2009 02 10 15 21 SLX0854X 512 MiB v 2009 02 10 14 39 Successfu NR29T58268GM 512 MiB MM 2009 02 10 14 31 Sucoessful NR29T58268LP 4 512 MiB v 2009 02 10 14 28 5 ssfu NR29T57262F5 40 512 MiB t t v 2009 02 10 14 30 S sS WR29T58267SR 40 512 MiB lanooo Server jon true t t v 2009 02 10 14 29 ucoessfui NR29T58268P8 4 512 MiB Blancco Server Edition Process area Page 1 of 16 Work aron Reports per page Auto 10 25 50 100 Create 4 1 Header area The header area contains information about the software in use such as the software name and the version It also contains a series of tabs My Blancco Process management Rep
94. zPack Installation of Blancco Management Console 301 1011811818100110 111011011181018118 00161018101 1a81 8 gt blancco MANAGEMENT CONSOLE E Select the installation path C Program Files Blancco Blancco Management Console lt Previous gt Next Quit b Confirm overwriting of the old directory Click OK to continue Warning The directory already exists Are you sure you want to install here and possibly overwrite existing files vs J ne see blancco 13 90 The following dialog will be shown if a previous version of the BMC has been found and can be updated Click OK to continue If you encounter problems here please refer to the Troubleshooting section of this manual for updates on any related issues sml Warning Er An existing installation of Blancco Management Console has been found Would you like to update it d Make sure that Blancco Management Console service has stopped Checking the checkbox Stop Blancco Management Console will stop the service if it is running Click Next to continue Ei IzPack Installation of Blancco Management Console fiel W99114114118181081181 ge blancco 111011011101010118 MANAGEMENT CONSOLE A MEIH Updating Blancco Management Console Please make sure that Blancco Management Console is stopped and proceed V Stop Blancco Management Console _ Gerevious het e This pa

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