You might want to approve a publisher before its files arrive on your computers — for example, if you distribute software using a computer that does not run the Carbon Black App Control Agent. To address this, you can manually add publishers to the table.

Note: When you add a publisher manually, the Carbon Black App Control Server creates a temporary copy of the file you identified and then deletes it after the publisher has been added. If an agent is running on the server computer, the file displays in the File Catalog with a prevalence of zero.

Procedure

  1. Open a browser and log in to the console on a computer that has access to the file whose publisher you want to add.
  2. On the Publishers tab, click the Add Publisher button to view the Add Publisher dialog box.
  3. Click the Browse button and locate an application file validly signed by the publisher. You can browse to any validly signed, executable file and add its publisher.
  4. In Windows, confirm that the file is signed by right-clicking the file and clicking Properties. If there is a Digital Signatures tab on the Properties window, the file is signed and you can examine its credentials.
  5. Double-click the filename to enter it into the File Name field.
  6. Click the Save button. Publisher information is extracted and the publisher is added to the table, initially in the Unapproved state.
  7. To approve or ban this new publisher for all policies, select the check box next to its new entry in the Publisher table and select Approve Publishers or Ban Publishers from the Action menu. As soon as a file from this publisher appears on one of your agent-managed computers, it will be handled as you instructed.