Patent ID: 9608994
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method of controlling computers in a network, the network having a network management system storing data identifying the computers present in the network and the software present in the network, each computer having an operating system, the operating system storing data relating to administration rights, wherein said administration rights are local administration rights, the method comprising: identifying, by a suite of control programs, software present on the computers, whether the software is approved for use, and the administration rights of the users of the computers; determining, by the suite of control programs, for each instance of the same software which is approved for use and installed on different computers, whether the users of the different computers have administration rights; and in response to a determination that at least one such user does not have administration rights, interacting, by the suite of control programs, with the operating system of the different computers of the users of the said same software to withdraw the administration rights of the users on the different computers who do have administration rights.