Click ‘Configuration Templates’ > ‘Profiles’ > open a Mac profile > ‘External Device Control’
- The external device control option blocks devices of a client computer from accessing, such as USB drives, Bluetooth devices, printers, and serial and parallel ports.
- This Option manages the list of devices to which you want to block access that should be blocked on endpoints using this profile
This article explains how to:
Configure External Device Control settings
- Log into ITarian
- Click ‘Applications’ > ‘Endpoint Manager'
- Click 'Configuration Templates' > 'Profiles'
- Open the MAC profile you want to work on.
- Open the 'External Device Control' tab and click 'Edit'
- Enable Device Control - Enable the external device control feature. This option blocks the device of a client computer from accessing, such as USB drives, Bluetooth devices, printers, and serial and parallel ports. This is useful if you want to configure external device control settings for a profile during its creation and enable it at a later time.
Blocked Hardware Items
- The 'Blocked Hardware Items' tab displays a list of types of hardware that are blocked as per the profile and allows you to add/remove new hardware types
Name - The device type as per global hardware classification.
Hardware Type - The Computer hardware type lists the physical parts of a computer
Hardware Class - The Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) of the device class.
Click the following links for help to configure each tab:
Add Blocked Hardware Items
- Click the 'Edit' option > Click 'Add' at the top of the list
The 'Blocked Hardware Items' dialogue appears with a list of device types.
- Select the hardware item to be added to the block list and click 'Ok'.
- Repeat the process to add more device types.
Remove a hardware item
- Select the hardware item from the list and click 'Delete'
- Click 'Confirm' to remove the device type from the blocked list.
Blocked Names
- The 'Blocked Names' tab manages the list of devices to which you want to block access.
Device Custom Name - Displays the name of the device.
Click the following links for help to configure each tab:
Add blocked names
- Click 'Add' at the top of the list
- Enter a label for the device in the 'Device Custom Name' field
The device will be added to the blocked name list and will be blocked access at the endpoint(s).
Remove blocked names
- Select the device custom name and click 'Delete'
- Click 'Confirm' to remove the item from the list
- Click the 'Save' button to save the 'External Devices Control' settings.