How to configure External Device Control Settings for Mac OS Profile

Click ‘Configuration Templates’ > ‘Profiles’ > open a Mac profile > ‘External Device Control’

• The external device control option blocks devices of a client computer from accessing, such as USB drives, Bluetooth devices, printers, and serial and parallel ports.
   
• This Option manages the list of devices to which you want to block access that should be blocked on endpoints using this profile 

This article explains how to:

• Configure External Device Control settings
   
• Blocked Hardware Items
   
  • Add  blocked hardware items
     
  • Remove blocked hardware items
     
• Blocked Names
   
  • Add blocked names
     
  • Remove blocked names

Configure External Device Control settings

• Log into Xcitium
   
• Click ‘Applications’ > ‘Endpoint Manager'
   
• Click 'Configuration Templates' > 'Profiles'
   
• Open the MAC profile you want to work on.
   
  • Open the 'External Device Control' tab and click 'Edit'

• Enable Device Control - Enable the external device control feature. This option blocks the device of a client computer from accessing, such as USB drives, Bluetooth devices, printers, and serial and parallel ports. This is useful if you want to configure external device control settings for a profile during its creation and enable it at a later time.

Blocked Hardware Items

• The 'Blocked Hardware Items' tab displays a list of types of hardware that are blocked as per the profile and allows you to add/remove new hardware types

Name - The device type as per global hardware classification.

Hardware Type - The Computer hardware type lists the physical parts of a computer

Hardware Class - The Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) of the device class.

Click the following links for help to configure each tab:

• Add  Blocked Hardware Items
   
• Remove Blocked Hardware Items

Add  Blocked Hardware Items

• Click the 'Edit' option > Click 'Add' at the top of the list

The 'Blocked Hardware Items' dialogue appears with a list of device types.

• Select the hardware item to be added to the block list and click 'Ok'.

• Repeat the process to add more device types.

Remove a hardware item 

• Select the hardware item from the list and click 'Delete'

• Click 'Confirm' to remove the device type from the blocked list.

Blocked Names

• The 'Blocked Names' tab manages the list of devices to which you want to block access.

Device Custom Name - Displays the name of the device.

Click the following links for help to configure each tab:

• Add blocked names
   
• Remove blocked names

Add blocked names

• Click 'Add' at the top of the list

• Enter a label for the device in the 'Device Custom Name' field

• Click 'Add'

The device will be added to the blocked name list and will be blocked access at the endpoint(s).

Remove blocked names

• Select the device custom name and click 'Delete'

• Click 'Confirm' to remove the item from the list

• Click the 'Save' button to save the 'External Devices Control' settings.