KNOWN ISSUE: Application Control 6.1 discrepancies in documentation

Altiris KB Article ID: 48361

Applies To

• Application Control Solution

Question

The Application Control Solution 6.1 User Guide has some documentation that is from the 6.0 version that is no longer accurate.

What are the known corrections to these discrepancies?

Answer

Page 20:

Additional information on Reference Policies:

ACS 6.1 has a new feature that is automates the process of the whitelisting trusted and desired applications. This automation is accomplished through the new Reference System Whitelist and Package Contents Whitelist Polices. With a reference system, you get a inventory scan of the a targeted system to find all applications in that systems windows, system32, and Program Files (and its sub-folders) and place the collected files into a list used by that policy. The policy then targets the remaining ACS systems would use the policy's file list to act as a whitelist to allow execute (typically by putting in the policy as a "No Action" action with the no continue option thus allowing these applications to execute without any intervention by the ACS agent. Application will then be in this "whitelist" so long as that same application had been found on at least one of these reference systems. Package Contents Whitelist are similar only they get their file list from selected Notification Server packages. In most environments both policies can be used concurrently to help automate the "Whitelist" process. As reference systems are updated with new versions or with a new approved application, the whitelist is automatically updated with the new executables or updated versions of those executables (as new versions have an updated hash as well).

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