Endpoint Protection

WARNING: Remember that you making changes for your own ressponsability. Changes listed below are NOT supported by Symantec so make them only if you really have to becouse your customer want to do this and have get informed about that.

In daily work propably you use only SEPM console and almost every time just forget that there is another place where you can get access to SEPM. It's SEPM Web Console working on 9090 port.

Many customers for security resons ask how to disable it at all, just like in my case. Below you can find some simple steps how to make it disable for everyone who try to lunch SEPM Web Console.

• First of all just open path : SEPM_Install_place\Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager\tomcat\webapps\ROOT\
• Find file calleds symantec.jsp and make a backup of it (just copy the file to a diffrent location or something like that) 

• After you backup symantec.jsp let's edit it. Open it in notepad or another text editor.
• Find the content similar to :

<td align="left" valign="top" width="100%" style="font-size:12px; background-repeat:repeat-x; background-image: url(/images/button-center.png);"><a style="text-decoration:none; color:white;" href="><b><%= strWebUIButtonText %></b></a></td>

• Change only part with:

href="https://<%= address %>:<%= port %>/console/apps/sepm"><b>

• TO:

href='javascript:window.alert("SEPM Web Console is disabled");'><b>

• Save symantec.jsp and restart Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager service.

That's all Folks. Now when you try to lunch SEPM Web Console you should see something like this: