Defining alarms

ActivREC can define the so-called alams, i.e. automatic actions in the event of a decrease in productivity or a breach of security policy by an employee To define an alarm, go to the Settings - Alarms - Alarms Definition menu.

After clicking +Add the form will open as shown below.


Three types of alarms are available:

• Application - will appear if the selected application will run a certain number of minutes
• Internet - will occur if the employee spends the right amount of time on a specific website
• USB disk - occurs when an employee inserts a PendDrive disk into the USB port or begins to copy data to this disk

Setting the conditions

Depending on the type of alarm, different conditions are available, namely:

• Application - application name, process name and window title
  
• Internet - website address
  
• USB drive - PenDrive placed in the USB port + file copied
  

In addition, regardless of the type of alarm, you can set whether the system should take a screenshot or send an e-mail notification when the event is registered. Alarms can additionally be marked as critical.