The settings menu allows a supervisor to manage OU’s, station groups and user groups by providing settings to change the way users are monitored. This section is for advanced setup and technical guides are available for each section on the support site.

Clicking on a user or station group will provide a list of the devices and users that have connected to the service. Further information is displayed like the client version and when a user was last active.

Settings Menu

To access the Settings Menu, click on the cog icon in the top right of the console window.

Several new options are now available along the top.

Settings

This will display the available settings for the group you have select, please read on further for an in-depth explanation of the available options.

Library

This will show all custom created libraries and what OU they were created on. Libraries can be created and edited from here. Please refer to the Library guide for more information.

Supervisors

This will show all created supervisor accounts and what level they were created at. New supervisor accounts can be created and assigned here. Please refer to the Supervisors guide for more information.

Audit Events

This will show all event logs on the server in a list. Events include supervisor logon, changes made to user groups and library changes. Audit events can also be exported from here.

All Users and All Stations

This will show all users or stations on the selected group. This can be used at the top level of your organisation to view every user or station that has connected to the server.

Reports

Please refer to the Summary Reports guide for more information.

Applications

Allows you to create, edit and assign application whitelists and blacklists to OUs or user groups. Refer to the Application Allow List guide for more information.

Web Lists

Allows you to create, edit and assign website whitelists and blacklists to OUs or user groups. Refer to the Website Allow Lists for more information.

AUP

Allows you to create, edit and assign Acceptable Use Policies to OUs or user groups. Please refer to our AUP guide for more information.

The left hand side of the settings menu will also show navigation options including the schools OU structure and user and station groups. New OU’s and user groups can also be created here. Please see the Create User Groups guide for further information.

Supervisors can be assigned to specific OU’s and will only be able to view the captures from users within those groups.

Settings Tab Options

This section is intended to explain the Settings tab in the Settings menu.

General

A general information tab that allows a user to set additional information such as the address and contact information for the school.

Display Name

Allows you to change the display name of the OU.

Default User/Station Group

Not recommended to change.

Name

The name of the OU, this cannot be changed.

Description

Allows you to add a description to the OU.

Admin Email

Allows you to add an email address to the OU. Informational only.

Monitoring

Monitoring profiles can be assigned to individual groups to allow selected users certain permissions.

Console Access

When enabled, allows all users in the group to right click on the client icon and select the ‘Console’ option to open the Securus console in the computers default browser.

Default is No.

Block on Capture

Provides a full screen prompt when a capture is created. User must click a button to continue.

Default is No.

Auto Exit

When enabled, automatically closes the client after a user logs in and connects to the target group. Useful for when a set of users are not to be monitored.

Default is No.

Stealth Capture

Unblock Password

Sets a password for ‘Block on Capture’. User/Admin must type in a password to allow normal use again.

User Level

Changes the options available to a user when they right click the client icon and gives more information in the Status and Version menus depending on the selected user level.

Default is Unset.

Show Icon

An option to show or hide the Securus client icon from the system tray.

Default is Yes.

Deactivate

When enabled, allows all users in the group to right click on the client icon to deactivate it. The client icon will turn Red to indicate it is in the deactivated state. Users can then re-activate to allow monitoring to continue.

Default is No.

Saveable

Advanced setting – not advised to change.

Default is Yes.

Stealth Web

No longer in use.

Default is No.

Stealth App - Default

No longer in use.

Default is No.

Application Allow Listing

Enables application whitelisting.

Default is yes

Application Allow List Only

Default is No

Keyboard Allow Listing

Default is Yes

Use Keyboard

No longer in use.

Web

Contains settings for web features.

Web Allow Listing

When a Web List is in use, stops captures from the defined websites.

Default is Yes.

Web Disallow List

No longer in use.

Library

Contains options for adding a custom library to a group and gives the ability to disable library categories for a group. 

Libraries

Shows the assigned custom libraries.

Disabled Categories

Shows which categories have been disabled.

Default is Unset.

Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)

Contains settings for the Acceptable Use Policy feature. More information here.

Display AUP

When enabled, turns the AUP on or off for a group.

Default is No.

AUP

Allows a user to choose which AUP is enforced. AUP’s can be selected from a drop-down list.

The system comes with a Default AUP that can be applied for general use.

Default is Unset.

Offline AUP

Allows a user to set an offline AUP that will display when a client is not connected to the server.

Default is Unset.

AUP Font Size

Sets the font size for the AUP text.

Default is 12.

Audit

Contains the settings for Audit logs, allowing a user to turn on/off select logs.

‘STATION_REGISTERED’ is off by default. Audit logs will track changes made to libraries, AUP acceptance, supervisor logins and more. The server will hold on to 10,000 audit logs and old logs will be replaced with new ones when this number is met. Audit logs can also be exported using the same method as previously explained.

LDAP

Securus supports LDAP in the form of client-side automatic syncing.

The client will reference your Active Directory when a user connects and will automatically create the OU structure for the location of the user if it is missing. If the structure already exists, the user will be moved into the correct location.

To turn this feature on, simply go to the Directory view, Click on LDAP and change Client LDAP to Yes if set to No. This should be enabled by default.

Scanning

This section provides options for the OCR scanning on the Securus XT client.

Confidence

Provides a value for the OCR confidence engine. Each capture is assigned a confidence value based on the accuracy of the OCR scan that the detected word/phrase is correct. The confidence engine will drop captures that fall below this percentage score.

Set to 85% by default.

Max Highlights

Sets the number of highlighted phrases per screenshot.

Set to 10 highlights by default.

Client

Contains client side options.

Self Capture

Enables the ‘Screenshot Now’ feature on the client side. Will automatically create a screenshot when clicked in the client options.

Default is No.

Keyboard Only

Sets the Windows client to only monitor keystrokes and disables the OCR engine.

Default is No.

No Monitor Connect

Sets whether the client should monitor if it cannot contact the Securus server.

Default is No.

No Monitor Offsite

Sets whether the client should monitor when it leaves the school network.

Default is No.

Client Active Time

Enables time based monitoring. Refer to the Time Based Monitoring guide for more information.

Default is No.

Client NoMonitor IP Set

When enabled this option will disable offiste monitoring. Refer to the Disable Offsite Monitoring guide for more information.

Default is No.

No Monitor IPs

Sets the IP addresses that the client will monitor from. Refer to the Disable Offsite Monitoring guide for more information.

Default is Null.

Active Times

Allows you to define when the client should actively monitor. This can be useful for situations where you do not want users to be monitored outside of school hours. Refer to the Time Based Monitoring guide for more information.

Default is Unset.