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Console Operator's Guide
Learn how to work with the BigFix Console.
Activating the license counting process
How to activate the license counting process.
Limitations
The LCP tool known limitations.

Console Operator's Guide
Learn how to work with the BigFix Console.
- Accessing the console
  The console is the visible face of BigFix, used by the operator to monitor and repair networked computers running the BigFix client.
- Fixlets and Tasks
- Actions
  Actions are scripts that run on selected targets. They are used to fix policy violation and security exposures and to run configuration steps. Fixlet, tasks, and baselines depend on actions to run their remediation mission.
- Sites
- Domains
- Roles
- Client Computers
- Computer Groups
- Analyses
- Baselines
- Relays and Servers
- Activating the license counting process
  How to activate the license counting process.
  - Prerequisites
  - Categorizing the clients
    How to categorize the clients.
  - Displaying the current license metrics
    An analysis is a collection of property expressions that a console operator uses to view and summarize properties of client computers.
  - Distributing the site mapping file
    How to distribute the site mapping file.
  - Generating the license tags
    How to generate the license tags.
  - Troubleshooting
    A BigFix Inventory troubleshooting scenario.
  - Limitations
    The LCP tool known limitations.
- Displays and Reports
- Menus
- The Dialogs
- Disabling local operators on BigFix Console
  Starting from BigFix Version 10.0.8, you can decide to disable the local operators from logging into the BigFix Console, to use LDAP operators instead.

Limitations

The LCP tool known limitations.

If running a BigFix server version 9.2 or earlier versions, the product names displayed by the License Overview dashboard are different from the names displayed by the LCP tool.

This mismatch does not occur on a BigFix server version 9.5.

The names used by the LCP tool are those used by the BigFix Inventory and comply with the rebranding initiative.

Refer to the right column of the following table for the names displayed by the LCP tool.

Table 1. Names displayed if running a BigFix server version 9.2 or earlier
Name in the License Overview dashboard	Name in the LCP tool
Patch_Management	Patch
Lifecycle_Management	Lifecycle
Power_Management	Lifecycle
Server_Automation	Lifecycle
Tivoli_Remote_Control	Lifecycle
Software_Use_Analysis	Inventory
Security_and_Compliance	Compliance
PCI_DSS_Security_and_Compliance	Compliance_Payment_Card_Industry_Add-on
Core_Protection_Module_(Trend)	Protection
Trend_Micro_Data_Protection	Protection_DLP_Add-on
Starter_Kit_for_Lifecycle_Management	Starter_Kit_for_Lifecycle

The products not mentioned in the table will be ignored.