Understanding the Client UI
Desktop Central client presents complex desktop
management information to administrators in a clear, well organized, and
easily understandable manner. The Client is a multi-pane interface with
tabs and quick links on the top pane, tab-specific links on the left pane,
and object-specific views on the right pane. The home page looks similar
to the one shown below:
Tabbed Pane
Tabs provides easier navigation between various
modules/features of Desktop Central. Each tab represent a specific module/feature
in Desktop Central. The content of the left pane varies depending on the
tab selected. The following are the tabs present in the product:
- Home:
The home tab provides a quick summary of the configurations defined in
the form of charts. Apart from the configuration summary, it also provides
Inventory summary and the health/patch status of the network.
- Configurations:
The configurations tab provides the core functions of the product. It
has links to define configurations and collections and view the defined
configurations based on the type and status.
- Patch
Mgmt: This provides the details of the available and missing patch
details along with options to install them.
- Software
Deployment: Provides options to create MSI and EXE package repository,
which can then be used to deploy software to the windows machines in the
network.
- Inventory:
Provides the details of the software and hardware inventory of the network.
It allows you to manage software licenses and prohibited software.
- Tools:
The Tools tab provides ability to share a remote desktop and control it
through a Web browser. You can also schedule a task to run various system
tools like Disk Defrag, Check Disk, and Disk Cleanup on different machines
in the network.
- Reports: The reports tab provides a comprehensive reports of the defined
configurations based on users, computers, and type. It also provides ready-made
reports of the Active Directory components. For more details about the
available reports, refer to Viewing
Reports topic.
- Admin:
The admin tab helps you to customize the product to your environment.
It helps you to define the scope of management, manage inactive users
in your domain, manage MSI/EXE files and scripts, apart from other personalization
options. For further details, refer to Configuring
Desktop Central section.
- Support:
The support tab helps you to reach us for your needs, such as getting
technical support, requesting new features, participating in user discussions,
and so on. It also provides self-diagnostic details about the product.
Apart from the tabs, it also has the following
links on the top right corner:
- Contact
Us: To reach us to support, feedback, sending logs, joining web
conference to troubleshooting, etc.
- Personalize:
To customize the skin, password, and session expiry time.
- License:
To upgrade to the licensed version of the software and to view the license
details.
- About
Us: To view the product version details.
- Help:
To view the product help documentation.
- Sign
Out: To sign out the client.
Quick Links
Quick links enables you to navigate to the
frequently used pages instantly.
Left Pane
The navigation links in left pane enables
navigation across the various features in the tab. The left-side navigation
links changes dynamically according to the tab selected.
Content Pane
The content pane displays the specific view
of the currently selected item from the tabbed pane, quick links or the
left pane.
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