About Telemetry Data
The anonymous data is sent so that LiveUpdate Administrator 2.x developers can understand how LUA is being used in real world situations. This enables them to best tune default values for the most commonly-used Symantec products, ensure that product testing and certification is done against the platforms where LUA is installed by corporate customers, and so forth.
Information returned includes:
No identifying information is transmitted (no computer name, location, license number, etc)
When the Anonymous Data is Sent
By default the task to send the anonymous information runs at the last minute of the calendar month. The LUA Event log will contain an entry when this anonymous data is submitted:
Created | Event Type | Severity | User | Description |
[Date] 23:59:06 IST | Telemetry | informational | LUA Startup | Telemetry successful as per configured parameters. |
To Disable Telemetry Data
The telemetry data is enabled by default. As the amount of resources consumed by telemetry is negligible, it is recommended to leave this feature enabled.
The anonymous data features are configured in the file ...\Symantec\LiveUpdate Administrator\tomcat\webapps\lua\WEB-INF\classes\lua_static.properties - this lua_static.properties file can be opened in notepad, textpad or your favorite text editor.
To disable the sending of telemetry data, change the URL from the default
telemetry.server.address=http://entced.symantec.com/entt
to any other URL. For example:
telemetry.server.address=http://127.0.0.1
Save the file and restart the LUA Tomcat service for this change to go into effect.