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HP Toptools for Unicenter User Guide
• Lock/Unlock System, Protect/Unprotect System – Dynamically controls access to the PC. Protect/Unprotect
system prevents local user interaction with the mouse and keyboard while Lock/Unlock provides the protect
feature plus preventing or enabling power off of the system through the power button.
Figure 5-8. Locking the system prevents users from using the keyboard or powering off.
Locking a system can be useful if a security intrusion has been detected. For example, imagine that alerts are
received that indicate an unauthorized user is making several unsuccessful attempts to log in as Administrator. The
Unicenter event log would provide notification of this event. In response, the Unicenter user could invoke the
Toptools action “Lock System” as shown above. This would prevent the user from typing anything on the keyboard
of that system, and would also prevent that system from being powered down from the front panel, which might
result in a denial of service for some other users. In other situations, the administrator might want to prevent certain
critical systems from being powered off. As shown in the next figure, a system can be prevented from being turned
off (“protected”).
Figure 5-9. A Protected system cannot be powered down.
• Manage Drivers/Firmware - Consists of distributing BIOS, driver, or diagnostic packages to Vectras, Kayaks,
or Omnibooks, scheduling the update to occur on the next reboot, and then rebooting the system.
• Change Security Settings - Offers the ability to prevent access to various hardware devices such as floppy disk
drives, serial ports, or printer ports.
• Set Identification String – Also called the “tattoo” string and is used for asset management.
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