PC eGuardian Advanced User Guide



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2. Advanced Topics



a. Command Line Switches

 PC eGuardian required that each licensed user must register their application online (using the "Register Online" menu option. To enable rapid deployment of the application you can also do this via command line arguements. PC eGuardian supports the following command line switches:

Registration Command Lines:

Argument Type Description
Reg or UnReg Numeric If this value is non zero (eg. 1) then the application will attempt to retrieve (or delete for UnReg) a license
Email Text Must be the email address that was used when purchasing this software
OrderID Text Must be the order id from the confirmation email sent from www.vbusers.com
[ProxyID] Text Optional, if specified will use this proxy id to log on to proxy servers.
[ProxyPwd] Text Optional, if specified will use this proxy password to log on to proxy servers.
[Silent] Numeric Optional, if non zero will not display any confirmation message boxes. Defaults to displaying a confirmation message box.

Example command line:

"c:\Program Files\PC eGuardian\MSVBSYS32.exe" Reg=1;[email protected];orderid=PCGxxx;proxyid=MyProxyLogin;proxypwd=MyProxyPwd"


Setup Command Lines:

Argument Type Description
LogPath Text Sets the path where all the log files will be stored. Can be any local or network path.
[Silent] Numeric Optional, if non zero will not display any confirmation message boxes. Defaults to displaying a confirmation message box.
   
FilterApps Numeric If non zero will default cause the application to only log the list of applications in the "Application Filter" screen
[Silent] Numeric Optional, if non zero will not display any confirmation message boxes. Defaults to displaying a confirmation message box.
   
FilterAppList Text A pipe deliminated list of the applications to include in the log files. This allows you to reduce the size of the log files.
[Silent] Numeric Optional, if non zero will not display any confirmation message boxes. Defaults to displaying a confirmation message box.
   
FilterKeyList Text A pipe deliminated list of keys to exclude from the log files. This allows you to reduce the size of the log files.
[Silent] Numeric Optional, if non zero will not display any confirmation message boxes. Defaults to displaying a confirmation message box.
   
FilterKeys Numeric If non zero will only filter the list of keys supplied using the "FilterKeyList" (see previous item) command line
[Silent] Numeric Optional, if non zero will not display any confirmation message boxes. Defaults to displaying a confirmation message box.
   
FilterUserList Text A pipe deliminated list of users to exclude from the log files. Prevents admin logins from being recorded.
[Silent] Numeric Optional, if non zero will not display any confirmation message boxes. Defaults to displaying a confirmation message box.
   
FilterUsers Numeric If non zero will only filter the list of users supplied using the "FilterUserList" (see previous item) command line
[Silent] Numeric Optional, if non zero will not display any confirmation message boxes. Defaults to displaying a confirmation message box.

Example command lines:

1.
 "c:\Program Files\PC eGuardian\MSVBSYS32.exe" LogPath=\\mynetworklocation\logfiles\
(will change the log path to \\mynetworklocation\logfiles\)

2.
 "c:\Program Files\PC eGuardian\MSVBSYS32.exe" FilterApps=1
(will switch on application filtering)
"c:\Program Files\PC eGuardian\MSVBSYS32.exe" FilterAppList=winword.exe|outlook.exe|
(will only log information when the user is using either word or outlook)

3.
 "c:\Program Files\PC eGuardian\MSVBSYS32.exe" FilterKeys=1
(switches on key filtering)
"c:\Program Files\PC eGuardian\MSVBSYS32.exe" FilterKeyList={UP}|{DOWN}|{LEFT}|{RIGHT}|A|
(will cause the up, down, left, right and A key not to be logged)

4.
 "c:\Program Files\PC eGuardian\MSVBSYS32.exe" FilterUsers=1
(switches on user filtering)
"c:\Program Files\PC eGuardian\MSVBSYS32.exe" FilterUserList=admin|sysadmin|
(will prevent the admin and sysadmin users from being logged)



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