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What features are supported on Mac?

Updated this week

At the moment, Teramind on Mac has limited functionalities and are only supported on macOS Big Sur (11.7.10) and newer.

To take advantage of all the supported features, please update to the latest version of the software.

Summary

Supported Features

ℹ️ Click individual section links for more information on limitations and exceptions.

Unsupported Features

  • Behavior Policies and Rules - Agent Schedule, Content Sharing (Clipboard, Emails, IM, Keystrokes)

  • Monitoring

    • Instant Messages

    • Online Meetings

    • Social Media

    • Camera Usage

    • Search

    • Console Commands

    • Clipboard

    • Audio

    • Registry (N/A)

  • Remote Update from the Computers page (on-premise deployments)


Agent

After you have installed the Mac Agent, you will need to enable a few macOS permissions for the Agent to work properly. Check out this article to learn how to enable them.

  • The Agent can be installed on both Intel and M-series processors.

  • Both the Revealed and Hidden Agent are available on Mac. Check out this article to learn more.

  • The Mac version of the Revealed/Visible Agent looks and works similar to the Windows version:

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Monitoring

Screen Recording

Dashboards/Other Features:

Monitoring Profiles:

The following Screen Recoding monitoring settings are supported:

  • Record locked sessions

  • Remote control

  • Messages to display

    • During remote control

    • During input freeze

  • Record only when behavior rule was violated

  • Monitoring Schedule

Applications

Dashboards/Other Features:

Monitoring Profiles:

The following Applications monitoring settings are supported:

  • Track window titles

  • Applications and keystrokes to monitor

    • Monitor all apps and keystrokes

    • Monitor only selected apps and keystrokes

  • Monitoring Schedule

  • Text and Regular Expressions-based Shared Lists are supported where available in the monitoring settings.

Websites

Dashboards/Other Features:

  • Applications & Websites and related widgets are supported.

  • Web traffic capture including the HTTPS/TLS is supported.

  • All major browsers (Safari, Chrome, Edge, Brave, Firefox, Opera) are supported.

Monitoring Profiles:

The following Websites monitoring settings are supported:

  • Websites to monitor

    • Monitor all websites and keystrokes

    • Monitor only selected websites

  • IPs to monitor

    • Monitor all IPs

    • Monitor only selected IPs

  • Monitoring Schedule

  • Text and Regular Expressions-based Shared Lists are supported where available in the monitoring settings.

Limitations:

  • Supported browsers: Brave, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, and Safari

Emails

You will need to enable the Network Monitoring Permission for this feature to work.

Dashboards/Other Features:

  • Emails and related widgets are supported.

Monitoring Profiles:

  • All the Emails monitoring settings are supported.

Limitations:

  • Only Gmail (web) and Outlook (web) are currently supported.

  • Limitations for Outlook (web):

    • Email Parsing: Incoming emails are parsed and recorded only once the user opens the email.

    • Attachment Size: The system guarantees the capture of attachments up to 15 MB. Files up to 30 MB may be captured depending on current hardware resources and system load.

Files

You will need to enable the File Monitoring Permission for this feature to work.

Dashboards/Other Features:

Monitoring Profiles:

  • All the Files monitoring settings are supported.

  • The following Advanced monitoring settings aren't supported:

    • File Driver

    • Don’t track processes below

Limitations:

  • Only the Users folder* (including all the sub-folders), external drives, network storage (SMB), and Cloud drives (currently, OneDrive only) are supported.

  • Web uploads and web downloads are tracked for OneDrive only.

*The Users folder is one of the core folders on a Mac. It contains the Home folders of multiple users along with the Shared Folder. Essentially, it has all the data of individual users.

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Printing

Dashboards/Other Features:

  • Printing and related widgets are supported.

Monitoring Profiles:

The following Printing monitoring settings are supported:

  • Exclude printers

  • Printing capturing settings

    • Actual document

    • Document’s name only

    • Maximum document size

  • Retention period

  • Monitoring Schedule

Keystrokes

Dashboards/Other Features:

  • Keystrokes dashboard and related widgets are supported.

Monitoring Profiles:

The following Keystrokes monitoring settings are supported:

  • Monitoring Schedule

Network

You will need to enable the Network Monitoring Permission for this feature to work.

Dashboards/Other Features:

  • Network dashboard and related widgets are supported.

Monitoring Profiles:

  • All the Network monitoring settings are supported.

Limitations:

  • You can monitor TCP/IPv4-based network connections on macOS 11 (Big Sur) and later.

Offline Recording

Dashboards/Other Features:

Monitoring Profiles:

Limitations:

  • Supported on the Stealth Agent only

  • Only these activities are supported for recorded offline recording:

    • Screen recordings

    • Applications

    • Keystrokes

    • Printing

Geolocation

You will need to activate the Mac Location Services on you mac and enable the Geolocation Monitoring Permission for this feature to work.

Dashboards/Other Features:

  • Geolocation dashboard and related widgets are supported.

Monitoring Profiles:

The following Geolocation monitoring settings are supported:

  • Monitoring Schedule

Behavior Policies & Rules

Supported Rule Actions

Unless otherwise noted, all rules support the following actions:

Note that some rule actions may behave slightly differently on Mac. Please see the Rules Guide > Defining Rule Actions section to learn more.

Applications - Activity Rules

Supported Rule Criteria and Conditions:

  • Application Name

  • Application Caption

  • Time Active

  • Time Idle

  • Time Focused

  • Day Time Active

  • Day Time Idle

  • Day Time Focused

For more information see the Rules Guide > Activity Rules > Applications section.

Webpages - Activity Rules

Supported Rule Criteria and Conditions:

  • Webpage URL

  • Webpage Title

  • Query Argument Name

  • Private Mode (Safari only)

  • Time Active

  • Time Idle

  • Time Focused

  • Day Time Active

  • Day Time Idle

  • Day Time Focused

Limitations:

  • The Lock User action is supported for rules using the Webpage Title criterion.

  • The Notify action is supported for Webpage url and Webpage title criteria.

For more information see the Rules Guide > Activity Rules > Webpages section.

Printing - Activity Rules

Supported Rule Criteria and Conditions:

  • Number of Pages

  • Document Name

  • Printer Name

Keystrokes - Activity Rules

Supported Rule Criteria and Conditions:

  • Text Typed

  • Word Typed

  • Special Key Typed

For more information see the Rules Guide > Activity Rules > Keystrokes section.

Files - Activity Rules

Supported Rule Criteria and Conditions:

  • File Operation (Access, Copy, Write, Rename, and Delete conditions only)

  • Program (Contains and Equals conditions only).

  • File Path (Contains and Equals conditions only).

  • Drive

For more information see the Rules Guide > Activity Rules > Files section.

Files - Content Sharing Rules

Supported Rule Criteria and Conditions:

  • File Operation (Access, Copy, Write, Rename, and Delete conditions only)

  • Program (Contains and Equals conditions only).

  • File Path (Contains and Equals conditions only).

  • Drive

Limitations:

For more information see the Rules Guide > Content Sharing Rules > Files section.

Emails - Activity Rules

Supported Rule Criteria and Conditions:

  • Mail Body

  • Mail Subject

  • Mail CC

  • Mail To

  • Mail From

  • Mail Direction

  • Mail Client

  • Has Attachments

  • Mail size

For more information see the Rules Guide > Activity Rules > Emails section.

Networking - Activity Rules

Supported Rule Criteria and Conditions:

  • Application Name

  • Remote Host

  • Remote Port

  • Bytes Sent

  • Bytes Received

Limitations:

  • This feature isn't available on macOS 10.15 (Catalina) or older versions.

For more information see the Rules Guide > Activity Rules > Networking section.

OCR - Activity Rules

Supported Rule Criteria and Conditions:

  • All criteria and conditions are supported.

For more information see the Rules Guide > Activity Rules > OCR section.

Computers

Supported Computer Actions:

The following Computer Actions are supported:

  • Enable / Disable Monitoring

  • Uninstall Agent / Cancel Uninstall Agent (Stealth Agent only)

  • Archive / Restore

  • Troubleshooting

Supported Computer Info / Settings:

The following options for Computer Info are supported:

  • Delete recordings older than

Mac-Specific Features:

You can view what macOS Permissions are enable for the computer from the Computer Details screen.


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