![]() I’ve created three Contexts - Home, Mobile (for use with a MiFi-style device) and Secure. I’ve enabled the display of the context name in the menu bar so that I can easily see which context the laptop is in:Ĭreate a Context with a name, Evidence Sources (properties of a location, physical configuration, peripherals, time of day etc) and Rules (these define evidence sources that describe the context). This is important because I want the secure actions firing by default with other actions only firing if I connect to a specific context (such as Home). Here I’ve also set a default context (Secure). Launch ControlPlane and enable ‘Start ControlPlane at login’ (if it’s not running, actions won’t fire). Installing ControlPlaneĭownloading and installing ControlPlane is very simple - download the disk image (DMG file) and drag ControlPlane to your Applications folder. So here’s how I’m using ControlPlane to make life easier by performing tasks as I move between home and work (or any other locations). With this tool I can define different contexts and then enable certain actions based on those contexts. I’m not that keen on writing shell scripts in OS X to automate the process, so I was impressed to come across ControlPlane. Manually mounting remote shares or changing security settings for each locations is repetitive and time consuming. Work is a very different context - I don’t have access to the NAS and I’m in a public location where I should be locking the desktop when it’s not in use. ![]() ![]() home) and non-secure or public locations (including the office).Įach location therefore, has different contexts - at home I might connect to my Synology NAS and I don’t need to lock the laptop when I walk away from it. ![]() It goes with me almost everywhere, so invariably I am moving between secure (e.g. I currently use a MacBook Pro for my personal and work use every day - it’s my primary computing device. ![]()
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