Remote Desktop Manager AutoDiscovery
I was wondering if RDM has this function and if so, is it enabled by default? The reason I ask is that I had just started a new job after having been unemployed for 3 months. I got permission to install RDM and shortly afterwards, the company's internal firewall blocked my network access due to "suspicious behavior" coming from my desktop. I was reprimanded and terminated a few days later for a violation of security policies. No other non-standard software had been installed; this was the only program I had added to my workstation.
If this feature IS enabled, I suggest that you disable it by default so that no one else ends up in a similar situation.
If it does not have this functionality, then I will have to investigate further to ensure that this doesn't happen again when I am able to find another job. I'm just trying to figure out what got me fired.
edited by tymbrwlf on 11/5/2014
All Comments (5)
This is really strange. We don't have any auto discover in the application. You need to use an import wizard or configure a synchronizer session.
David Hervieux
I'm certainly not placing blame but something started scanning. This was a clean install of Windows 7 with the normal compliment of company software installed. I only installed RDM and started manually entering some RDP entries then boom; blocked. I wasn't sure if it the latest release might have added some sort of autodiscovery or LAN polling functionality. Does the "Check for Host Availability" ping all hosts constantly when RDM is open? That may have been it but it's odd that there were other monitoring solutions in use that do that same thing and did not generate a firewall blockage.
Yes the check for host availability does that but it's disabled by default.
David Hervieux
Does it only ping hosts that have been entered or does it ping the entire LAN looking for replies? If so, I think that may be what happened. I did enable that. That was a very expensive option for me to enable.
It only pings the host. We don't have any automated network scan.
David Hervieux