Administration - Web Console

The effectiveness of your Ivanti Application Control for Linux system requires the administration of policies, devices and rules tailored to meet the requirements of your organization. Administration is performed using the Web Console and this help page section describes the concepts and functionality available.

Home Tab

The Home tab is the entry point to the web console. It acts as a dashboard, displaying the most relevant data from your system. The Home tab includes links to further resources such as Help, Support, Community Articles and Ivanti-specific training.

Policies Tab

The Policies tab is where you create new policies and manage existing ones.

All Device Policies Section

The All Device Policies section lists all policies, displaying their deployment, contents, current status and execution mode.

Select the ellipses icon menu to access relevant functions. The menu includes options to view deployed/active policies, duplicate existing ones, edit draft policies, and remove policies.

Policies can be edited or removed only until they are deployed. Once successfully deployed, the policy becomes active.

Deployed (active) policies can only be viewed or duplicated; they cannot be edited or removed.

New Policy Section

The New Policy section enables you to create policies, compose a rule set, create the list of devices where policies will be deployed - and establish the mode (Audit or Restrict) in which the new policy will behave on the targeted Linux endpoints.

On an individual rule you can specify if the execution of the target should be allowed or denied. The rule includes full or relative paths or binaries.

If required, you can use environment variables and symbolic links. To view examples, refer to the Applying Rule Sets section.

For binaries, the Use Hashing option allows you to ensure the target is identified by signature rather than location. This means that even if the target is copied into another location, the enforcement of the rule cannot be circumvented. Refer to Configuration for further information on the use of hashing.

The list of rules allows you to filter rules and further inspect them. Functions allow you to edit previously existing rules, modify their type (Allowed or Denied), enable, or disable the use of hashing, enable, or disable a rule entirely, or remove it from the list.

Add Devices Tab

The Add Devices tab enables you to specify where you want your policy to be deployed. You can add individual devices or groups of devices. For further information refer to Deployment to Groups.

The list of Added Devices indicates if a device belongs to any group, and if a policy is currently active for that device. You can filter the list, and/or remove individual or multiple devices.

Notes

Until a policy is deployed it can be edited. You are advised to periodically save your changes (for further information refer to Save Without Deploying).

In the Deploy Policy tab you can see a summary of your policy, and save or deploy the created rules to the device(s) specified.

Devices Tab

The Devices tab lists devices that are registered to your server instance.

In the list of devices you can view: whether the device belongs to a group, whether they have an active policy, and the deployment progress and/or status of that policy.

The list can be filtered for ease of navigation and administration.

View Device Details

To view device-specific details select the required device name from those listed. Device details are displayed in four tabs:

Device Summary

The Device Summary summarizes relevant hardware and software information. The information is extracted at the point of registration from the Linux distribution installed on the device.

Debug Info Tab

Debug Info enables you to review detailed debug information.
The data is supplied from the Application Control for Linux engine running on that device.

The data can be filtered for ease of navigation and further inspection. It can be valuable in troubleshooting the current state of your endpoint.

See also Audit vs Restrict for further information.

Audit Log Tab

Audit logs detail Application Control-specific events as they are audited and reported from the Application Control for Linux engine on the device. The audit log events are based upon the operations executed and include operations executed by the system, various systems services, individual applications, or by users.

Events are audited whether the deployed policy mode is Audit or Restrict. Audited events apply to the currently active policy (including policy defaults and local allowlisting).

Audit log data can be filtered for ease of navigation and inspection and is valuable in auditing the current behavior of your endpoint - whether allowed and denied.

See also Audit vs Restrict for further information.

Device Contents

Local Allowlist Changes - This is an RPM package and GPG keys extractor.

Once the device and backend connection have been established, the information will start to flow and collect on the backend and DB side.

The Refresh RPM information button is an on-demand action that will refresh the table when new keys or new RPM packages have been added to the Linux endpoint.

Device Groups

The Device Groups tab allows you to organize your registered devices into logical groups.

The groups are listed and the number of devices included currently is displayed. To remove a device group select the ellipses icon to open the context menu, then select Remove.

The list can be filtered for ease of navigation and administration.

Create a Group Section

The Create a Group section allows you to organize your devices into a new logical group.

Add Devices

Devices can only belong to one group at a time.

The add devices search returns only relevant registered devices, note that this will exclude any device that is currently a group member.

Note: If a device belonging to one group is added to a new group its original group membership is removed.

Devices (list)

The list of devices allows you to filter, and then further inspect added devices. The list displays current group membership for the devices and their currently active policies.

Group member devices can be selected individually or in multiples and removed using the Remove button.

Related Topics:

Configuration

Maintenance

Applying Rule Sets

Installation (opens UWM Help)