Rounds is the least interesting station here and the one every other station leans on. Absent a current list of what exists, what state its updates are in, and whether the tablet at the second site still reports, everything else is guessing about its own reach. Windows, Apple hardware and handsets each get a line.
Ask a practice for its machine count and you generally get a figure somebody recalls rather than a figure somebody produced. That distance is where the trouble lives, because an uncounted PC was never patched, never encrypted and never collected when its owner moved on. The monitoring line assembles the list and holds it current, with nobody maintaining a spreadsheet in the background.
Updates ride the same software, timed around clinic instead of through the middle of one. So does filtering, which stays with a laptop that goes home rather than halting at the practice boundary. One piece of software, one list, and no box in the closet.
Apple hardware accumulates quietly at a front desk, and by the time anybody counts there are eleven Macs and a pair of iPads that nothing looks after. Addigy takes enrolment, configuration, encryption state and updates for that group properly, and puts it on the same round as everything else.
Handsets earn a line because a good deal of practice mail is genuinely read on a phone in a corridor. Zimperium decides on the device, so it works with no signal, and it does not require anybody's private browsing to be shipped somewhere for examination. On a phone the member of staff bought themselves, that distinction is what makes the line acceptable to the person carrying it.
Rates come live from billing. Anything tagged waits on the chart while you carry on reading.
Watching, updating, scripting and remote support, all off one piece of software, which retires the spreadsheet somebody refreshed twice a year. This line answers what hardware exists and what condition each item is in.
| Fitted to | Windows, macOS and Linux machines that will accept an agent |
|---|---|
| Watches | Update state, disk and service health, inventory, and check-ins |
| Kept for | A live hardware register, and the update history sitting behind it |
| Escalates to | Our desk the moment a machine goes quiet or an update fails |
| Reviewed by | An engineer walking the round, not a queue nobody opens |
Filtering by category and by reputation, decided on the device, which keeps it working on a laptop driven home or across to a satellite site. Nothing is racked anywhere and no traffic is rerouted.
| Fitted to | Machines already carrying the monitoring agent |
|---|---|
| Watches | The lookups and web requests a device makes |
| Kept for | A history of requests and refusals, held per device |
| Escalates to | A block page for the user, and a note to our desk on repeats |
| Reviewed by | An engineer, whenever a clinical tool needs an exception |
Proper handling for Mac and iPad hardware: enrolment, configuration, updates and inventory, instead of asking people nicely twice a year. Apple hardware collects at front desks and in consulting rooms, and it belongs on the same register as everything else.
| Fitted to | Mac, iPad and iPhone hardware enrolled into management |
|---|---|
| Watches | Drift away from profile, update state, and whether disks are encrypted |
| Kept for | A live Apple inventory with its configuration history behind it |
| Escalates to | Our desk as soon as a device drops out of policy |
| Reviewed by | An engineer walking the round, beside the Windows estate |
Detection running on the handset itself for iOS and Android, reaching its conclusion locally rather than shipping traffic off to be inspected. An enormous amount of clinic mail gets read on a phone between rooms.
| Fitted to | iOS and Android handsets and tablets, practice-owned or personal |
|---|---|
| Watches | Whether the handset is sound, plus network, app and link attacks |
| Kept for | A record of what was detected, never a log of private browsing |
| Escalates to | The person holding the phone, and our desk at the same moment |
| Reviewed by | An engineer, checking back over what the handset decided |
Each station has an edge to it, and clinics get caught out by suppliers who pretend otherwise. Below is where this one stops, set down so a practice can work out what else it needs and who else has to supply it.
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