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Website Echo provides network administrators with a comprehensive tool to monitor and control access to specific Web sites or general categories of Web sites. Using Website Echo, administrators can set Web access permissions based on time controls, enabling the lock-down of machines in afterhours periods or providing freer access during personal time for day-extender employees.
Website Echo also allows the use of keyword triggering and URL lists as a means to control access to Web sites. With Website-Echo, administrators can easily exempt trusted Web sites or domains from the blocked domain list. Pearl Software also sells Echo-Filters, a Web category plug-in that complements Website-Echo by providing the most comprehensive and up-to-date list of Web categories used to define the enterprise's Web access policy.

Website Echo's unique Employee Internet Management technology is based on an independent agentserver architecture. The Website Echo agent monitors and controls all Web based traffic based on rules created at the Website-Echo server. Website Echo does its job regardless of which Web browsing application is being used. Website-Echo is not reliant on proxies or firewalls and is not affected by high traffic volumes, how users access the Net or where they are physically located.

ANNUAL MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT
Telephone technical support is provided free for 30 days from the date of purchase. For license quantities greater than 10, annual maintenance agreements are available and can be purchased at any time during the free 30-day support period only. By purchasing a maintenance agreement, you are entitled to receive, at no additional charge, all major releases, minor releases and lettered releases made available by Pearl Software, Inc. during the period of the agreement. The maintenance agreement also entitles you to receive product support at no additional charge. Support after 30 days from the purchase date, without a maintenance agreement, will be billed on a per-incident basis.

 

PREMIER SUPPORT
Premier Support is Pearl Software’s proactive host system analysis. Pearl Software’s Integrated Health Monitoring System will automatically communicate metrics to our support personal so that our technicians can monitor your server’s performance to help you manage Echo maintenance considerations. Should system parameters appear to be a cause for concern, Pearl Software will proactively alert you of the identified situation in order to remediate the issue before it causes application performance issues or poses a threat to your intended Internet security policies.

ECHO-FILTERS URL CATEGORY DATABASE
Pearl Software offers Echo Filters Category Module as an optional add-on. This is Pearl Software’s comprehensive web URL category database, designed to simplify the administration of Internet use. Using the Echo Filters module, administrators can set specific access rules and permissions to Web pages (URLs) based on the pages’ categorized content. By using the Echo Filters category module, administrators can monitor, control, block and report on URLs by the category they belong to. Click here for a more detailed description on this module.

MICROSOFT SQL SERVER
Pearl Echo stores monitored Internet activity in its native Microsoft xBase database format. For installations with high volume monitoring loads and large storage requirements, Pearl Echo can easily be configured to store monitored Internet activity to an existing Microsoft SQL Server. This additional module provides long-term, high volume storage capability, expanding the reporting periods for which reports can be generated and facilitates comprehensive compliance auditing.

WEBSITE ECHO VS PEARL ECHO SUITE
Website Echo can be purchased a stand-alone module which is contained within the Pearl Echo Suite. Website Echo provides network administrators with a comprehensive tool to monitor, control and manage access to specific web sites. Using Website Echo, administrators can set web access permissions based specific users, time of day and URLs. Website Echo also allows the use of keyword triggering as a means to audit or control access to web sites. Pearl Software also sells Echo Filters, a web category database that complements Website Echo by providing the most comprehensive and up-to-date list of web categories used to define the enterprise’s web access policy. For more complete details on Website Echo compared to the Pearl Echo Suite click here.