The top right corner of the Carbon Black EDR console shows the name of the currently logged-in user. This topic describes the options for viewing and managing this user's experience.

A dropdown menu includes the following options:

Menu Choice

Description

My Profile

Shows and allows editing of the current user’s first and last name and email address. Shows teams in which the user is a member. Provides access to dialogs for changing the user’s password and API token.

For Carbon Black Hosted EDR users, the My Profile page includes a link to the user’s profile (account) page.

Sharing Settings

For administrators only, this option shows a page that allows administrators to determine whether to share different types of information with Carbon Black and its partners. See Threat Intelligence Data Sharing Settings.

Settings

For administrators only, this page allows administrators to view and change settings that affect the operation of Carbon Black EDR:

  • Sites – Provides a menu of sites and the ability to throttle sites by time and day of the week.

  • E-Mail – Lets you configure your own alert email server (recommended), use Carbon Black’s email server, or not receive alert emails.

  • License – Shows the Carbon Black EDR server’s license and allows you to apply a new license.

  • Server Nodes – Shows all of the server nodes in your cluster, their Node ID, Name, Hostname (with domain) and full URL with port.

  • Server Certificates – Shows all of the sensor-server certificates that are available on the current server. It also shows the validation method that is being used for these certificates. See Managing Certificates.

  • Ingress Filters – Lets you define and view ingress filters.

  • VDI Settings – When enabled in cb.conf by using the VDIAPIEnabled setting, you can define the VDI attribute-mapping configuration in the console. Selectable attributes are Hostname, DNS Name, Computer SID, IP Address, and MAC Address. For more information about VDI support, see the VMware Carbon Black EDR Integration Guide . For more information about cb.conf, see the VMware Carbon Black EDR Server Configuration Guide.

  • Carbon Black App Control Server – Shows configuration information if this Carbon Black EDR server is integrated with Carbon Black App Control . See the VMware Carbon Black EDR Integration Guide.

  • Login Customization – Allows you to display customized text upon login.

  • Advanced Settings –

    • Process Search Settings – Allows you to block certain process searches that could cause significant performance issues. See Process Search and Analysis.

    • EU Data Sharing Banner – Allows you to enable and disable the display of a red banner at the top of console pages that warns users to be cautious when sharing screenshots or other data. This capability can be overriden in the cb.conf file by the ShowGdprBanner setting. See EU Data Sharing Banner for details. For more information about cb.conf, see the VMware Carbon Black EDR Server Configuration Guide.

    • Live Response – Allows you to enable or disable Live Response, which opens a command interface for direct access to any connected host running the Carbon Black EDR sensor. This can be overriden in the cb.conf file by the CbLREnabled setting. For more information about cb.conf, see the VMware Carbon Black EDR Server Configuration Guide. This section also includes configuration settings that can be adjusted to help improve Live Response performance. See Using Live Response for details.

Logout

Logs the current user out of the Carbon Black EDR console.