Automatically Create a Reference System Whitelist Policy

Owned by Max Pinion (Deactivated)
Last updated: Aug 31, 2015
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What's Covered

Install the Data Feed

Create a Resource Target

Create a Reference System Whitelist Policy

 

This document shows you how to automatically create a whitelist policy for your reference system that targets a collection of computers, searches for Windows executables, and then adds any Windows executables to a whitelist.

Install the Data Feed

Install the Application Control – Reference System Template data feed. For instructions on how to install data feeds, go to Using Data Feeds.

Create a Resource Target

First you will need to create a resource target that contains the desired reference system(s). To create a resource target, do the following steps:

  1. In the Security Manager Console, click the Resources tab.
  2. In the left pane, click Resource Filters.
  3. Right-click the Resource Target folder.
  4. Click New > Resource Target.
  5. Enter a name and description.
  6. Click OK.
  7. In the right pane under Filtering Rules, click the Add rule button.
  8. In the Then menu, "excludes computers not in" will be the default. 
  9. In the menu just to the right of the Then menu, choose Computer List.
  10. Then click Select.
  11. In the Select Item window that opens, click the computer resources that represent your reference system(s).
  12. Click OK.

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Create a Reference System Whitelist Policy

Now that you have your targeting established you can create a file reference system whitelist policy automatically.

  1. In the Security Manager Console, click the Policies tab.
  2. In the left pane, navigate to the Arellia Solutions > Application Control > Policies > Whitelist folder.
  3. Right-click the Whitelist folder and click New > Reference System Policy.
  4. In the Create Item dialog box, fill in the Name and Description fields.
  5. Click the Select link next to Reference System(s).
     
  6. In the Select Items dialog box, click the resource target you created previously.



  7. Click OK. 
  8. In the Create Item dialog box, click OK.



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By clicking OK you are creating the following items:

  • File scan policy
  • File scan results filter
  • Reference System Policy

For details about these three items, go to Manually Create a Reference System Whitelist Policy.

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