Local Security Solution

Ever wondered how you automatically notify the user that a managed password (typically the Administrator account) has been accessed by an administrator when using Local Security Solution? No Notification Policy exists by default.

Learn how to install just such a Notification Policy in this tip.

Helpdesk Solution has a wonderful array of options to help cut back on some of the grief that your helpdesk staff might have. I've quickly learned that one of the fastest ways to get buy-in for a new product is by maximizing ease of use. Tasks are a great way to improve ease of use for your Helpdesk workers, especially when you are using new solutions.

In this article I'll show you how to access console resources for Local Security Solution by creating a new Helpdesk Solution task. With some additional research, some of these techniques can be used to generate tasks for other Altiris products.

In our organization we have some very security sensitive managers, one of whom was wholeheartedly for Local Security Solution (LSS). However, he quickly became concerned that passwords, after being disclosed, were opening security holes. While limited to those computers, he was still concerned enough and he has enough pull to have this issue block our full implementation of Local Security Solution. Therefore, it quickly became important to address his issues. Instead of upping our password reset interval for everyone, I came up with the idea of just reseting those passwords that had been disclosed.

What if you wanted to take your Local Security Solution (LSS) data, and use Inventory Forwarding to move the data to a destination Notification Server? If you did this, you could have a backup of your managed passwords and have those passwords accessible on the destination server too. You can pull this of with Inventory Forwarding. Here's how to configure your Notification Server to do this.