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Getting Started 

Welcome 

Introducing Pearl Echo   , a comprehensive employee Internet management 

package from Pearl Software. This premier tracking utility is the industry 

model for employee Internet access management and represents the most 

significant step available today in promoting responsible Internet use in the 

workplace. Featuring Pearl Software s Mobility Monitor  technology, Pearl 

Echo can effectively block inappropriate sites or set time restrictions on 

Internet use, regardless of where end users reside. But what makes Pearl 

Echo most unique is its intrinsic ability to monitor email, chat/instant 

messaging (IM) and news group postings and provide detailed access profiles 

to your network administrator. Pearl Echo s Quick Link  feature allows 

automatic links to visited web sites, and Pearl Echo can restore all text from 

outbound and inbound communications. Pearl Echo is a powerful application, 

offering dynamic filtering, reporting and knowledge management functions to 

assist you in fulfilling your regulatory compliance and corporate governance 

requirements.  

Pearl Echo Architecture 

Pearl Echo's Employee Internet Management technology is based on an 

independent client server architecture.  By creating an independent service, 

Pearl Echo is not affected by high traffic volumes, how users access the 

Internet, or where your end users are physically located.  Pearl Echo's 

Employee Internet Management technology does not suffer from the 

performance and security problems of proxy monitoring solutions or from the 

overload and network dependency limitations of network sniffer solutions.  

The Pearl Echo Server software runs as an independent service resident on 

one of your Windows Domain or Stand Alone Servers or on a Windows 

Workstation.  The Internet access rules you create at the Pearl Echo server 

are retrieved by your managed workstations through a secure, zero 

maintenance agent loaded on your Windows workstations.   

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