BLANCCO MANAGEMENT CONSOLE User Manual for version 3.3 www.blancco.com DEFINITIONS ITEM EXPLANATION FTP File Transfer Protocol is a standard network protocol used to copy a file from one host to another over a TCP/IP-based network. HASP 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 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. JRE Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is an application that has all the modules to execute applications that use Java. Legacy clients 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. BMC Abbreviation of Blancco Management Console. PXE Preboot eXecution Environment is an environment for booting computers using a network interface. SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is an Internet standard for electronic mail (email) transmission across Internet Protocol (IP) networks. TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) is a file transfer protocol known for its simplicity. Compared to FTP, TFTP is extremely limited, providing no authentication, and is rarely used interactively by a user. WDS 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. 2/90 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Blancco Management Console Requirements..................................................................8 1.1. Smaller operations, demo and test purposes ............................................................8 1.2. Larger operations ...............................................................................................8 1.3. Software/Service requirements..............................................................................9 2. Installation & Configuration...................................................................................... 10 2.1. System preparation .......................................................................................... 10 2.2. Installation ..................................................................................................... 10 2.2.1. First Time Installation .................................................................................. 11 2.2.2. Update ..................................................................................................... 13 2.3. Configuration .................................................................................................. 17 2.3.1. Port Selection ............................................................................................ 17 2.3.2. Database & Authentication Selection ............................................................... 17 2.3.3. Database Configuration ................................................................................ 19 2.3.4. Authentication Configuration ......................................................................... 20 2.4. Installation Complete ........................................................................................ 22 3. Login Screen ........................................................................................................ 23 4. Blancco Management Console user interface ................................................................ 25 4.1. Header area.................................................................................................... 25 4.1.1. Language selection ..................................................................................... 25 4.1.2. Help ........................................................................................................ 25 4.1.3. Notification area ......................................................................................... 25 4.2. Process area ................................................................................................... 25 4.3. Work area ...................................................................................................... 26 5. My Blancco .......................................................................................................... 27 5.1. New dashboard ............................................................................................... 27 5.2. Manage dashboard ........................................................................................... 28 5.3. Default widgets ............................................................................................... 30 5.3.1. Login details .............................................................................................. 30 5.3.2. All time erasure statistics .............................................................................. 30 5.3.3. Average HDD size ....................................................................................... 30 3/90 5.3.4. Available licenses ........................................................................................ 31 5.3.5. Consumed licenses...................................................................................... 31 5.3.6. Import reports ........................................................................................... 32 6. Process management tab ........................................................................................ 33 6.1. Controlling Blancco 5 remotely ............................................................................ 34 6.1.1. Erasure controls ......................................................................................... 34 6.1.2. Report fetching .......................................................................................... 35 6.2. Managing Legacy client erasures ......................................................................... 35 7. Reporting tab ....................................................................................................... 36 7.1. Report view management .................................................................................. 36 7.2. Create new report views .................................................................................... 36 7.2.1. View name ................................................................................................ 37 7.2.2. Report mode ............................................................................................. 37 7.2.3. View columns ............................................................................................ 37 7.2.4. View filters ................................................................................................ 37 7.2.5. View options .............................................................................................. 37 7.3. Manage existing report views.............................................................................. 38 7.3.1. Edit ......................................................................................................... 38 7.3.2. Delete ...................................................................................................... 38 7.4. Report mode ................................................................................................... 38 7.5. Quick search ................................................................................................... 38 7.6. Open a report ................................................................................................. 39 7.7. Create new report ............................................................................................ 39 7.8. Import reports................................................................................................. 39 7.9. Export reports ................................................................................................. 40 7.10. Export all reports............................................................................................ 41 7.10.1. Report options.......................................................................................... 41 7.10.2. Export options .......................................................................................... 41 7.11. Export reports in CSV format............................................................................. 42 7.12. Email reports ................................................................................................. 43 7.13. Print reports .................................................................................................. 43 7.14. Delete reports................................................................................................ 43 7.15. Edit report(s)................................................................................................. 44 4/90 7.15.1. Editing a single report ................................................................................ 45 7.15.2. Editing several reports................................................................................ 46 7.16. Editing all reports ........................................................................................... 47 7.17. Report properties ..........................................................................................