User identification components

• Communicates with your directory service.
• Conveys user-to-group and user-to-domain relationships, to Filtering Service, for use in applying policies.
• Enables display of client information in the Forcepoint Security Manager.

For information about configuring directory service access, see Connecting web protection software to a directory service.

• Offers transparent identification of users defined in a Windows-based directory service.
• Communicates with User Service to provide up-to-date user logon session information for use in policy enforcement.

For more information, see DC Agent.

• Provides unsurpassed accuracy in transparent user identification in Linux and Windows networks.
• Does not rely on a directory service or other intermediary when capturing user logon sessions.
• Detects user logon sessions as they occur.

Logon Agent communicates with the logon application on client machines to ensure that individual user logon sessions are captured and processed.

For more information, see Logon Agent.

• Works with Novell eDirectory to transparently identify users.
• Gathers user logon session information from Novell eDirectory, which authenticates users logging on to the network.
• Associates each authenticated user with an IP address, and then works with User Service to supply the information to Filtering Service.

For more information, see Configuring eDirectory Agent.