BlueZone feature locking

BlueZone provides a feature locking capability. You can distribute preconfigured versions of BlueZone that prevents your users from making changes to some or all of the BlueZone features. BlueZone feature locking is controlled by several settings in the setup.ini file.

When the setup.ini file is configured to lock features, all of those features are locked in the distributed sessions. If this is too restrictive, you can use command line switches to lock features in specific sessions. Refer to Locking features using command line switches for more information.

There are two levels of feature locking: dialog and sub-dialog level.

Dialog-level

This feature uses a system that can lock BlueZone configuration features at the dialog-level. For example, if you lock the Display Options window, users cannot change any of the settings in the entire Display Options window. Locked windows can be viewed by your users, but they cannot save any changes. Dialog-level locking is accomplished by disabling the OK button.

You can also determine whether or not you want the locked windows to be displayed. By default, if you lock a window, your users can still view the locked window and its current settings. By setting the show locked dialogs feature to No, your users cannot view any of the locked windows. If they try to view a locked window, an error message opens.

For a complete list of BlueZone windows that can be locked, refer to BlueZone feature locks.

Sub-dialog level

If locking an entire window is too restrictive, you can hide individual window tabs. This prevents your users from being able to see or change configuration options that are stored in those tabs. You can view and configure the options on all of the tabs and save them to your BlueZone top-level configuration file.

There are two windows that you can lock specific tabs:

• Telnet Properties window

  Refer to Configuring the Telnet locking feature for more information.

• Display Options window

  Refer to Configuring the display locking feature for more information.

If you are also using BlueZone Secure FTP client, you can configure the BlueZone Secure FTP client to inherit certain BlueZone lock values and can also prevent users from executing certain FTP commands.