Navigate the user interface

You may use the forward and back buttons on your browser to move through Insight Control server provisioning screens. Your browser refresh button may be used to reload any page.

Screen areas and menus

Navigate IC provisioning through its screen areas and menus as shown below.

Overview screen

Main menu: selects the Insight Control server provisioning object type. This selection controls what is displayed in the master pane. From these screens you can see what objects are available, details about those objects, and take actions on them. Selections include:

Servers
OS Build Plans
Scripts
Packages
Configuration Files
Device Groups
Jobs
Settings
Matrix Integration Settings
Users and Groups
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Activity

If a user is not authorized to view an object type, that object is not displayed in the main menu.

Search: search for objects within the appliance. See Use Search for details.

Activity : select to list notifications that have been displayed in the banner. This list will clear after it has been viewed. The number of notifications available to view is displayed in the banner.

Session : this area is for access to information regarding the users logged in and allows you to log out of the appliance.

Help : select this for Recommended Actions, Help on this page, and to Browse help. Help pages are displayed in a separate browser window.

Banner: this area contains the main menu, full product search, plus links for alerts, logged in users, and online help.

Actions and view menus:

The Actions menu is a context sensitive menu depending on the currently displayed screen. If a user is not authorized to perform an action, it is not displayed in the Actions menu.
The View menu (shown as Overview in this image) allows you to select different information to display in the details pane for the object selected in the master pane.

Details pane: includes detailed information of the specific object selected from the master pane list, depending on the selection from the view menu.


	TIP: The Overview screen is divided into panels. If the panel title (for example, General, History, etc.) is underlined and has a > next to it when you hover over it, it is selectable and clicking on it will take you to a screen with additional information.

Master pane: this list is populated depending on the main menu selection. Selections in this list control what is displayed in the details pane.


	TIP: You can widen the master pane by dragging its right edge.

Icons

Refer to the information in the table below to see what icons look like, what they are called, and what actions they produce when selected.

Icons' appearance, names and actions

Icon	Name	Action
	Expand	Fully expands a menu or list to show all authorized choices
	Delete	Removes the entry
	Edit	Edit the entry
	Search	Searches the appliance database using the provided text
	Activity	Select to list notifications that have been displayed in the banner. This list will clear after it has been viewed. The number of notifications available to view is displayed in the banner.
	Session	This area is for access to information regarding the users logged in and allows you to log out of the appliance.
	Help	Select this for Recommended Actions, Help on this page, and to Browse help. Help pages are displayed in a separate browser window.

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