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Manage quarantine

Quarantine management can be configured for computers, mobile devices, devices, and users in Snow License Manager. For more information, see Quarantine management.

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If you have enabled the Disable automatic quarantine management setting for a computer, mobile device, device, or user in Snow License Manager, that setting will override your settings for quarantine management. The computer, mobile device, device, or user will then remain in the status it is set. For example, this is useful for computers which are not scanned regularly but are still part of the network.

Enable quarantine management​

  1. On the Configuration menu, click Basic Settings.

  2. To enable quarantine management:

    • For computers and mobile devices, select QUARANTINE_ACTIVE.

    • For devices, select DEVICE_QUARANTINE_ACTIVE.

    • For users, select USER_QUARANTINE_ACTIVE.

  3. Enter the number of days that an item needs to be inactive before its status is changed to Quarantined:

    • For computers and mobile devices, enter the number of days in QUARANTINE_DAYS.
      The default value is 30 days.

    • For devices, enter the number of days in DEVICE_QUARANTINE_DAYS.
      The default value is 90 days.

    • For users, enter the number of days in USER_QUARANTINE_DAYS.
      The default value is 90 days.

Enable automatic deletion of quarantined items​

  1. On the Configuration menu, click Basic Settings.

  2. To enable automatic deletion of quarantined items:

    • For computers and mobile devices, select QUARANTINE_DELETE_ACTIVE.

    • For devices, select DEVICE_QUARANTINE_DELETE_ACTIVE.

    • For users, select USER_QUARANTINE_DELETE_ACTIVE.

  3. Set the quarantine period, or the number of days that an item needs to be quarantined, to any preferred number of days:

    • For computers and mobile devices, enter the number of days in QUARANTINE_DELETE.
      The default value is 60 days.

    • For devices, enter the number of days in DEVICE_QUARANTINE_DELETE.
      The default value is 30 days.

    • For users, enter the number of days in USER_QUARANTINE_DELETE.
      The default value is 30 days.

  4. To specify what will happen to computers and mobile devices when the quarantine period expires, select one of the following settings in QUARANTINE_DELETE_ACTION.

    • Delete. This is the default value.

    • Set to Inactive.

    • Archive.

EXAMPLE

In this example, you want to configure quarantine management for computers and mobile devices. When they have been inactive for 50 days, they will be quarantined. After a quarantine period of 20 days, they will be set to inactive.

Do the following:

  1. On the Configuration menu, click Basic Settings.

  2. Configure quarantine management for the computers and mobile devices:

    1. Select QUARANTINE_ACTIVE.

    2. In QUARANTINE_DAYS, enter 50.

  3. Configure the quarantine period and select what will happen to the computers and mobile devices when the quarantine period expires:

    1. Select QUARANTINE_DELETE_ACTIVE.

    2. In QUARANTINE_DELETE, enter 20.

    3. In QUARANTINE_DELETE_ACTION, select Set to Inactive.

Configure quarantine management for members of datacenters​

If quarantine management is enabled for auto-generated datacenters, note that the members of the datacenters will not be affected by the quarantine settings. To enable quarantine management for members of datacenters, you must first remove the members from the datacenters. To remove computers from auto-generated datacenters if no new inventory data is received:

  1. On the Configuration menu, click Basic Settings.

  2. In DCC_AUTODISCONNECT_DAYS, enter the number of days until the computers will be removed from auto-generated datacenters if no new inventory data is received.