Work Flow In Environments; Windows Environment - M86 Security M86 Web Filter User Manual

Work flow in environments

Windows environment

1. The administrator stores the M86 Authenticator client
2. Using a Windows machine, an end user logs on the
3. The end user's login script evokes authenticat.exe.
4. The M86 Authenticator client determines the authentica-
5. The Web Filter looks up the groups to which the end user
6. The Web Filter sets the profile for the end user with user-
7. The M86 Authenticator client continually sends a "heart-
8. The end user logs off, and the M86 Authenticator client
NOTE: The M86 Authenticator can handle up to 20 logons per
second.
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(authenticat.exe) in a network-shared location that a
login script can access.
domain, or logs on the eDirectory tree via a Novell client.
tion environment by examining the Windows registry,
then retrieves the username and domain name using
either Windows or Novell APIs, and sends this informa-
tion (LOGON event) to the Web Filter.
belongs (Windows AD, PDC, or eDirectory through
LDAP), and determines the profile assignment.
name (including the group name, if it is available) and IP.
beat" to the Web Filter—with a specified interval of
seconds between each "heartbeat"—until the end user
logs off.
sends a LOGOFF event to the Web Filter. The Web Filter
removes the user's profile.
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