Monitoring - Black box

In this mode all user actions (video from the screen and sounds) will be stored in local files on his machine in encrypted form.

Path to the folder to save
This path can contain environment variables for user and computer (e.g., %USERPROFILE% is "C:\Users\user_name\"). You can also use network paths, however this extremely not recommended due to possible performance problems!
Attention! Root paths like C:\, D:\ are not allowed here!
In the LogOff state, the value of %USERPROFILE% is usually "C:\Users\Default\".

Do not perform, if free space is less than
If there is less than N-megabytes of free space on the disk where the files are stored, the files will not be saved.

Recorded data max storage time
This is a retrospective for saving of old records.

Key for files encryption
It is recommended to encrypt files and not leave this field blank (AES-256 encryption is used).
Each file is a record of one hour duration in mp4 format and unreadable name and extension .dump
If the file is encrypted, it can not be opened by the player and it is not possible to understand that this is an mp4-file.
After decrypting the file name becomes readable, the extension changes to .mp4 and it becomes open for the players.
If the encryption key was not used, then after decryption, the file name is simply converted into a readable one.
To decrypt it is necessary to use the utility mp4decrypt with the same key.
Attention! If you enter the wrong key, the file will be corrupted and can not be restored!

Record video from the screen
The video is recorded from the currently active monitor (on which the mouse cursor). An important parameter for video recording is interval between frames - with larger values files are smaller and less CPU-load on the client machines, and vice versa. The minimum value is 1 second, the maximum value is 3600 seconds.
The average size of the hour-duration file with the default settings is usually near 100 MB.

Record audio from the microphone
Add continuous recording from the microphone (used system-default microphone of the client machine).

Record audio from the speakers
Add continuous recording from the speakers of the client machine.
Attention! On some sound cards, sometimes when this option is enabled, the situation may occur of "looping" sounds (or silence) after the completion playing of some other sounds. The situation ends after the any sound played again. If this is often case, then it is better to disable this option.


Attention! All of this "black box" functionality will not work if the Windows Media Foundation is not installed on the system. By default, it is not installed on all server OS'es, as well as on older Windows XP operating systems.