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Console Operator's Guide
Learn how to work with the BigFix Console.
Displays and Reports
Viewing Dashboards
Dashboards are list of reports that update in real time and provide you with high-level views of your BigFix network.
License Overview Dashboard
Use the License Overview dashboard to subscribe to content sites.

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
- Displays and Reports
  - Web Reports
    The Web Reports program can monitor, print, or archive the status of the local database.
  - Viewing Dashboards
    Dashboards are list of reports that update in real time and provide you with high-level views of your BigFix network.
    - Baseline Synchronization Dashboard
      Use the Baseline Synchronization dashboard to make sure that your baselines, source Fixlets, and actions are in sync. Ensuring that your baseline components are in sync with the source Fixlets prevents issues when you deploy actions across an entire network.
    - Deployment Health Checks Dashboard and Deployment Overview Dashboard
      Use the Deployment Health Checks Dashboard and the Deployment Overview Dashboard to manage and monitor the health of your BigFix environment.
    - License Overview Dashboard
      Use the License Overview dashboard to subscribe to content sites.
    - Maintenance Windows Dashboard
      Use the Maintenance Window dashboard to define time periods during which BigFix can run actions; mainly maintenance activities.
    - Relay Health Dashboard
      Use the Relay Health dashboard to monitor the status of your relays across the entire network.
  - Visualizing Data
    The Visualization Tool allows you to view and manipulate data across your entire managed network.
- Menus
- The Dialogs

License Overview Dashboard

Use the License Overview dashboard to subscribe to content sites.

When you add subscriptions to content sites, content automatically flows from these sites into your environment and is evaluated for relevance on all computers running the BigFix Client.

The list of available content sites that you see in this dashboard is strictly related to the license of BigFix that you purchased. When you buy BigFix, you receive a license number that defines which products in the BigFix suite you purchased. This information is used by the product to populate, at installation time, the License Overview Dashboard with the subscriptions to only the products in the suite that you purchased.

With the exception of the content related to the BigFix platform, for which you are automatically subscribed at installation time, you must manually add subscriptions from the License Overview Dashboard to the other content sites covered by your license. This means that even though your license includes, for example, the BigFix for Patch product, you still need to access the License Overview Dashboard and add subscriptions to the Patch content sites available to start using the BigFix for Patch functions.

Run the following steps to access the License Overview Dashboard:

Click the BigFix Management domain in the Domain Panel.
Click License Overview Dashboard. The dashboard opens.
Scroll down the dashboard to review the content sites that you already subscribed to and those that are available but for which you have not yet added subscriptions.
For more information about how to use the License Overview Dashboard and the information it contains, see Post-installation steps .