Accessing and navigating the BMC Client Management console

The BMC Client Management console is the most important part of BMC Client Management. All the tools necessary for managing your clients on a day-to-day basis can be found in the console. The most important aspect of the console is its capability to manage any of the object types supplied by BMC Client Management and execute all types of action on these.

BMC Client Management overview

There are seven main areas on the console screen. The title bar at the top, the menu bar right below, followed by the graphical icon bar and the tool bar right below and at the bottom of the window the status bar. The main window is divided into the left and right window panes. Both the left and right window panes offer context sensitive pop-up menus to access node or tab specific information or actions.

The tool bar is always available below the icon bar and provides general tools usable at all locations in the console, such as a quick search functionality, direct access to the logged users' preferences and the possibility to switch on/off the guided tasks functionality.

The tool bar is composed of the following elements:

To access the console

The console is a Java application and can thus be launched using the generally available startup options provided by Java, such as -Xmxn to extend the maximum size of the memory allocation (n must be a multiple of 1024, for example, Xmx80m or Xmx81920k ). By default the anti-aliasing option is used for the console. To switch it off, open the console shortcut's Properties window and modify the -Dswing.aatext option from true to false . To launch the console with its standard options proceed as follows, depending on the operating system on which your console is installed:

To log on to the console

In the the Login window, enter the required information and click Login.