Companies

Companies are the main entity to apply Managed Backup settings to a group of managed computers, which contains all necessary attributes for efficient backup and restore management. Company is a main entity to apply centralized settings for Connect.

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Create a New Company
  • General
  • Allowed Editions
  • License Settings
  • Backup Destinations
  • Backup Notifications
  • Restore Notifications
  • RMM Notifications
  • Deep Instinct Notifications
  • Backup Agent Options
  • RMM Agent Options
  • Connect Agent Options
• Edit Company
• Delete Company

Create a New Company

To create a new company, proceed as follows:

1. Open the Management Console.
2. In the Organization menu, select Companies or expand the + Add control on the top right corner of the screen and click Company to open Companies.

3. Click Add Company.

4. In the side panel, specify the company name, then click Create.

5. Once the company is created, proceed to the company settings on the side panel.

6. On the General tab, specify the storage limit for the company if needed and select if you want to use this company as default.

8. Switch to the License Settings tab, then specify the licensing policy for the company Specify allowed Backup Agent edition (licenses) for the company

The following options are available for license assignment:

• Global Pool. Select this option to assign licenses from the global pool to company users
• Company Pool. Select this option to apply licenses for company users from the company pool only. You can manage the amount of every type of licenses for the company.
• Custom (obsolete). Apply separate license settings for users

9. Switch to Backup Destinations tab.

10. Click Add Backup Destination, then select one or more backup storage for the company.

11. Switch to the Backup Notifications tab.

On this tab, specify the notification policy for your backup plans for the company. The following options are available:

• Use Global Options. Select this option to apply global notification settings for the company
• Use Custom Options. Select this option to configure specific notification settings for the company. Once the option is selected the custom settings are available. Specify them for each separate backup plan result:
  • Success. Specify email addresses for notification to be sent if a backup plan is completed successfully.
  • Warning. Specify email addresses for notification to be sent if a backup plan is completed with warnings.
  • Failure. Specify email addresses for notification to be sent if a backup plan terminates with errors.

12. Switch to Restore Notifications tab.

On this tab, specify the notification policy for your restore plans for the company. The following options are available:

• Use Global Options. Select this option to apply global notification settings for the company
• Use Custom Options. Select this option to configure specific notification settings for the company. Once the option is selected the custom settings are available. Specify them for each separate restore plan result:
  • Success. Specify email addresses for notification to be sent if a restore plan is completed successfully
  • Warning. Specify email addresses for notification to be sent if a restore plan is completed with warnings
  • Failure. Specify email addresses for notification to be sent if a restore plan terminates with errors.

13. Switch to the RMM Notifications tab.

On this tab, configure options to send RMM email notifications upon issues and failures on remote computers. This feature requires an additional license. Users granted with an RMM + Remote Desktop license can use this functionality. The following options are available:

• Use Global Options. Select this option to apply global notification settings for the company
• Use Custom Options. Select this option to configure specific notification settings for the company. Once the option is selected the specified alerts or push notifications will be sent to the specified recipients to report a problem or failure. Refer to RMM Notifications for details on available alerts. To send email and/or push notifications select ** Email Notifications** and/or Push notifications check box, then specify administrative accounts that will receive push notifications for this company.

Click Customize notification options at the bottom of the side panel. Configure notification settings. By default, no SNMP devices or services/daemons are selected to send any alerts.

14. Switch to the Deep Instinct Notifications tab.

On this tab, configure options to send Deep Instinct email notifications upon security risks on remote computers. The following options are available:

• Use Global Options. Select this option to apply global notification settings for the company
• Use Custom Options. Select this option to configure specific notification settings for the company. Once the option is selected the specified notifications will be sent to the specified recipients to report security risks. Refer to Deep Instinct for details.

15. Switch to Backup Agent Options tab.

On this tab, configure options that will be available in Backup Agent instances for users assigned to the company. The following options are available:

• Use Global Options. Select this option to apply global Backup Agent settings for the company
• Use Custom Options. Select this option to configure specific Backup Agent settings for the company. Once this option is selected, the custom settings are available. Configure them as needed as described below.

The following custom options can be selected for the company users:

• Enable Backup Agent. Select this check box if you intend the company users to have an access to Backup Agent UI and will be able to change settings allowed for modification

• Enable Local Backup in a Backup Agent. Select this check box to allow company users to back up to local destinations

• Allow Data Deletion in Backup Agent. Select this check box to allow users to manage their backup contents on the Backup storage tab of the Backup Agent or using CLI

• Enable Pre/Post actions. Select this check box to allow users to configure actions or to add scripts that can be executed before and after backup plans

• Allow sending logs from the Backup agent. Select this check box to enable sending logs from Backup Agent instances installed on users' computers. If unselected, users are not able to send logs

• Encryption / Compression:

• Show Encryption option. Select this check box to allow users to configure their encryption settings in Backup Agent

  • Show Filename Encryption option. Select this check box to allow users to configure their encryption and compression settings

• Show Compression option. Select this check box to allow users to configure their encryption settings in Backup Agent

  • Use Compression by default. Select this check box to apply compression for all backup plans for this company

• VSS:

  • Show VSS option. Select this check box to allow users to configure their VSS snapshot settings in their Backup Agent instances
  • Use VSS by default. Select this check box to apply VSS usage for all allowed backup plans for the company

• Remote Access

  • Allow to add Connect to Recovery Disk. Select this check box to include Connect installer in the recovery disk for disaster cases

• Backup/Restore:

  • Enable backup plan edit. Select this check box to allow users to configure their backup plans themselves
  • Enable restore plan edit. Select this check box to allow users to configure their backup plans themselves
  • Show Restore to EC2 option. Select this option to allow users to restore their image-based backup to Amazon EC2 instances
  • Show Restore to Azure VM option. Select this option to allow users to restore their image-based backup to Azure VM instances

• Authentication:

  • Show login/password authentication option. Select this check box to allow users to authenticate using their login/password combination
  • Show Windows authentication (AD Bridge). Select this check box to allow users to authenticate via AD Bridge
  • Show Windows authentication (AD direct mode). Select this check box to allow users to authenticate using Windows authentication
  • Specify a default authentication type. To do this, in the Default Authentication drop-down menu select the required authentication type
  • Enable Sign up form to end-users in your rebranded client backup application. Select this option to display signup for in Backup Agent

• Amazon S3. Specify a default storage class (applies to Amazon S3 backup storage only). To learn more about Amazon S3 storage classes, refer to the Amazon S3 Storage Classes chapter.

  • Show storage class options. Select this check box to allow users to select the S3 storage class themselves
  • Show Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration option. Select this check box to allow users to configure S3 transfer acceleration themselves. To learn more, refer to the Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration chapter at docs.aws.amazon.com
  • Use Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration by default. Select this check box to force Amazon S3 transfer acceleration for all company users
  • Show SSE option. Select this check box to allow users configuring the Server Side Encryption feature themselves
  • Use SSE by default. Select this check box to force Server Side Encryption usage for all company users

16. Switch to RMM Agent Options tab.

The following options are available to configure:

• Allow Remote Management. Select this option to allow licensed users to monitor or manage user computers where the RMM Agent is installed remotely. This enables RMM alerting services as configured in Settings > Notifications for selected company. This feature requires licensing
• Allow PowerShell Execution. Select this check box to allow licensed users to execute PowerShell commands on user computers of this company remotely.
• Hide RMM icon from System Tray. Use this option to hide RMM Agent on computers, in case you do not want the RMM icon will be visible for selected company.

17. Switch to Connect Agent Options tab.

The following options are available to configure Connect instances of the selected company:

• Allow remote access to computers. Select this check box to enable remote access and control to user computers using Connect.

Security

• Enable Direct (authorized) access. This option allows you to pre-authorize joining all active sessions without any additional confirmation by remote computer user. Select this option to allow direct access to active sessions without any additional confirmation. The remote user will see the name and company of the person who is trying to connect to the active session. This feature requires Connect Agent version 3.4 and later.
• Approval methods to join active sessions. You can select the remote user confirmation method to join an active session. The remote user will see the name and company of the person who is trying to connect to the active session. You can configure the PIN length to increase safety or reset PIN in case you suspect it may be compromised. If you want to secure remote connections additionally, you can set a custom password for connections using logon credentials. To use custom password, select Require password before connecting with logon credentials. With this option enabled you have to enter the custom password, and then logon credentials to join. It is recommended to use long custom passwords for security reasons and keep them in safe place.
• Allow outgoing connections. By default, outgoing (from the computer) connections are disabled for remote computers, but you can enable outgoing connections for remote users.
• Allow access to UI. Allows access to the Connect graphic user interface for users of remote computers. In this case you can protect application settings by a password to prevent changes by the remote user.

Service

• Update Connect Agent automatically. This option allows automatic updates of Connect Agent as soon as the new version becomes available. Select this option to update Connect Agent on all online computers automatically.
• Logging Level By default logging level is low. You can select the logging level you want.

Proxy Settings

On the Proxy Settings area select the proxy usage settings. By default, Do not use proxy option is set. If you select Manual proxy configuration option, specify the proxy server adress and port number. For example, if the proxy server's address is http://proxy.example.microsoft.com (https is not currently supported) and the port number is 80, the setting in the Proxy Host box should appear like this: proxy.example.microsoft.com port 80.

If necessary, select Basic Authentication and provide credentials for connection.

18. Once you are done with all settings, click Save.

Edit Company

To edit the company, proceed as follows:

1. In the Organization menu, select Companies .
2. In the table, find the company you want to edit, then click Edit.
3. On the side panel edit company options as described in the Create New Company paragraph.

Delete Company

To delete the company, proceed as follows:

1. In the Organization menu, select Companies.
2. Find the company to edit, then click Edit.
3. Click Delete at the bottom of the side panel. Confirm the deletion.