Administering

This section provides information and instructions for administrating BMC Client Management.

The following table provides links to the relevant topics based on your goals:

Goal	Instructions
Manage licenses within the network and view licence information	Managing licenses for BMC Client Management Viewing license information
Import and evaluate licences	Importing licenses Evaluating licenses
Search and view event by licence feature	Searching and viewing events by license feature
Manage global settings	Managing global settings
Automatically detect an object that is not related to any other object in the database	Lost and found objects
Specify access to the BCM console, manage administrators, administrator groups, and capabilities	Managing administrators, administrator groups and capabilities What you have to know about administrators What you have to know about administrator groups Capabilities and access rights
Review complete list of consoles currently connected to the master	Connected consoles
Manage agent rollout to install BCM agents on all relays and clients	Agent rollout configuration Preparing console for agent rollout Configuring rollout servers Configuring post-install activities Defining the rollout targets
Automatically reboot devices after specific operations	Managing reboot windows Creating a new reboot window Defining reboot window time-slots Assigning reboot windows Activating reboot window Reassigning reboot windows to their targets
Create, modify, or delete attributes of a device object	Managing device object attributes
Define the list of relays	Managing relay lists
Centrally manage and share information about network resources and users	Directory servers Creating a directory server Modifying the directory server parameters Checking connection to the directory server Deleting a Directory Server
Understand and review system variables that control behavior of the master	Managing system variables
Define security settings	Security settings
Define event and logging settings	Event and logging settings
Manage BCM agent connection behavior	Managing BCM agent connection behavior
Manage email settings	Managing email settings
Define default operational rule parameters	Default operational rule settings
Create and delete a device menu	Managing device menus
Define default settings for all types of supported packages	Packages settings
Define the general behavior of patch groups	Managing patch group settings
Define the settings for style-based reports and customize logo for reports	Managing report settings
Define the default behavior of the BMC Software Quality program	Software quality metrics
Quick search to find devices that match one or more specific criteria	Quick search settings
Manage security, security components, security operations and principles, security profiles, predefined administrator groups, access rights and capabilities for specific cases	Managing security Security permissions required for operations Managing administrator access through security profiles Managing predefined administrator groups Managing access rights and capabilities for specific cases
Use tools for administering BMC Client Management	Using BMC Client Management tools
send an email containing the contents of a console window to another person	Sending an email
Import Out-of-the-Box objects and report templates	Importing Out-of-the-Box objects Importing report templates
Create upgrade packages, clean up old packages	Creating upgrade packages Cleaning up old packages
Group clients based on administrator-defined criteria using queries	Managing queries Types of queries
Perform basic and advanced query tasks	Performing basic query tasks Performing advanced query tasks
Review information about all objects in the database using reports	Managing reports Types of reports
Create and delete a report or a report folder	Creating a report Creating a reports folders Deleting a report or a reports folder
Manage report options,	Managing report options
Adding a pie chart to an existing report	Adding a pie chart to an existing report
Manage subreports	Managing subreports
Preview, assign, generate, publish a report, view report results, schedule report generation	Previewing a report Assigning a report Generating a report Viewing report results Publishing a report Scheduling report generation
Set up email for mailing reports, manage report portal, import new report templates, use report creation wizard	Setting up email for mailing reports Managing Report Portal Importing new report templates Report creation wizard
Manage events and alerts, configure alert notifications	Managing alerts and events Event log model list Configuring alert notification
Configure automatic update of BMC Client Management as per requirement	Managing update configurations
Configure asset discovery	Configuring asset discovery
Manage scan configurations	Managing scan configurations
Adding existing devices as targets	Adding existing devices as targets
Configuring target lists	Configuring target lists
Managing asset discovery scanners	Managing asset discovery scanners
Configure the local device management module	Configuring Windows devices for device management
Configure power management module	Configuring device settings for power management
Configure remote access to the devices	Configuring remote access
Configure the diagnostic tool module	Configuring the diagnostic tool
Configure operational rules as per requirements	Configuring operational rules
Review configuration parameters of different types of inventory	Setting up inventory Managing inventory filters Custom Inventory Object Types
Configure necessary financial data or values for devices in network	Configuring financial asset management
Configure patching as per requirements	Configuring patch management
Configure Windows Device Management	Configuring Windows Device Management
Configure compliance management	Configuring compliance management
Define compliance constant	Configuring compliance constants
Configure SCAP compliance	Configuring SCAP compliance
Configure mobile device management	Configuring mobile device management
Prevent local user from stopping or starting the agent service	Locking BMC Client Management Agent service
Customizing the end-user dialogs to provide a personalized experience	Customizing the end-user dialogs to provide a personalized experience
Updates to Security Products Inventory and Virtual Infrastructure Management	Updates to Security Products Inventory and Virtual Infrastructure Management
Addressing data privacy requests	Addressing data privacy requests

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