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BigFix Remote Control application helps to communicate between different components, clients, and endpoints within BigFix environment.
Remote Control Console User Guide
Dashboards overview

Remote Control
BigFix Remote Control application helps to communicate between different components, clients, and endpoints within BigFix environment.
- Release notes
  A summary of changed or new features and enhancements included in BigFix Remote Control.
- Remote Control Installation Guide
  By using Remote Control you can remotely support and control thousands of PCs and servers, on an enterprise scale, from a central location or directly, in peer to peer mode.
- Remote Control Administrators Guide
  This guide is for users who want to administer Remote Control.
- Remote Control Console User Guide
  - Definition of terms that are used in Remote Control
  - The Remote Control console
  - Dashboards overview
    - View deployment distribution data
  - Functions within Remote Control
  - Viewing web reports
    Remote Control offers a report available in the Web Reports component of the application. The web report was formulated to provide log data that is gathered from the controller and target logs relevant to specific targets. The data can be used for auditing purposes and for monitoring remote control activity on specific computers in your environment.
  - Frequently asked questions
  - Support
    For more information about this product, see the following resources:
- BigFix Remote Control Controller Users Guide
- Remote Control Target Users Guide
- Remote Control On-demand Target Guide
  Use Remote Control to start remote control sessions over the internet with targets that do not have the target software installed.
- Remote Control V10 Readme

Dashboards overview

Remote Control offers a couple of convenient dashboards, the Remote Control Events for viewing log data gathered from the controller and target logs about the specified computer and the Remote Control Overview for viewing the deployment distribution of the Remote Control components in your environment and the distribution of the type of target deployment carried out.

You can access these dashboards from the top of the Remote Control navigation tree by selecting Remote Control Events or Remote Control Overview:

View Remote Control events

The Remote Control Events dashboard includes three separate sections that show log data gathered from the controller and target logs about the specified computer: