Monitoring - Screenshots

The most important options in this tab:

Receive and send screen shots to the server
If this option is disabled screen shots are not transferred to the server and this allow to improve network traffic.

Make shots every N-minutes
Do not specify too small value in order not to load the network and not to occupy to much space with shots files.
Note: when saving screenshots in the database, caching is used, so the result will appear in reports with a delay of 5 minutes!

Only if differs from prev. at least N-pixels
When enabled, a comparison of the current and previous screenshots is used (pixel by pixel). If the difference in pixels exceeds this value, the picture will be taken and transferred to the server, otherwise it will not. Enabling allows you to save traffic and load on the server/database without saving similar or identical screenshots.

Only if the last activity was less than N-sec ago
When this option is enabled, screenshots will not be taken if the last user activity (keyboard/mouse) was earlier than the selected interval (in seconds) from the scheduled time of taking a screenshot at the current moment.
Enabling it allows you to essentially not create the same or very similar screenshots when the PC is in idle state.

Add. screenshots when active window / browser tab changes
Also take a screenshot every time when the active window or browser tab changes in addition to periodic screenshots.

Save shots only in the report BOSS-Offline
It is possible to view shots in the report "Screenshots" of BOSS-Offline. In this case it is necessary to enable shadow copy for clients' computers and server!

Save shots only in the folder on the server
Sometimes it is useful to view users' screenshots not only through reports in BOSS-Offline but also directly from the server folder with the breakdown by users. In such case this option must be enabled and shadow copy is not necessary to run. As the shadow copy is necessary to review screen shots through reports. It is also required to set up the folder and other folder options in the server settings "Monitoring: Screenshots".

Save shots in the report and in the folder simultaneously
Merging above mentioned options.

Shots options
Number of options which allow to set up shots saving.
With the help of these options it is possible to improve the load on the network traffic and decrease the space that occupied by shots at the cost of images quality. That's why it is important to select parameters based on your requirements.

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