TRITON - Web Security Help, Version 7.7 - Websense

Web Security Server AdministrationFor information about other components, see: Filtering and management components, page 364 User identification components, page 368 Interoperability components, page 369User identification componentsTRITON - Web Security Help | Web Security Solutions | Version 7.7.xComponentDescriptionUser Service • Communicates with your directory service.• Conveys user-related information, including user-to-groupand user-to-domain relationships, to Policy Server andFiltering Service, for use in applying filtering policies.If you have installed and configured a Websense transparentidentification agent (see Transparent identification, page 295),User Service helps to interpret user logon session information,and uses this information to provide user name-to-IP-addressassociations to Filtering Service.When you add users and groups as Websense clients (see Addinga client, page 83), User Service provides name and pathinformation from the directory service to TRITON - WebSecurity.For information about configuring directory service access, seeDirectory services, page 77.DC Agent • Offers transparent user identification for users in a Windowsbaseddirectory service.• Communicates with User Service to provide up-to-date userlogon session information to Websense software for use infiltering.For more information, see DC Agent, page 306.Logon Agent • Provides unsurpassed accuracy in transparent useridentification in Linux and Windows networks.• Does not rely on a directory service or other intermediarywhen capturing user logon sessions.• Detects user logon sessions as they occur.Logon Agent communicates with the logon application on clientmachines to ensure that individual user logon sessions arecaptured and processed directly by Websense software.For more information, see Logon Agent, page 311.368 Websense Web Security Solutions