# ManageEngine:UI/Working

Understanding the Client UI

***● Tabbed Pane***

***● Quick Links***

***● Left Pane***

***● Content Pane***

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***Tabbed PaneTabs*** The  following  are  the  tabs present in the product:

●H**ome**: The home tab provides a quick summary of the configurations defined in theform of charts. Apart from the configuration summary, it also provides Inventory summary and the health/patch status of the network.

●C**onfigurations**: The configurations tab provides the core functions of the product. Ithas links to define configurations and collections and view the defined configurations based on the type and status.

●**Patch Mgmt**: This provides the details of the available and missing patch details along 21with options to install them.

●**Software Deployment**: Provides options to create MSI and EXE package repository,which can then be used to deploy software to the windows machines in the network.

●I**nventory**: Provides the details of the software and hardware inventory of the network.It allows you to manage software licenses and prohibited software.

●**Tools**: The Tools tab provides ability to share a remote desktop and control it through aWeb browser. You can also schedule a task to run various system tools like Disk Defrag,Check Disk, and Disk Cleanup on different machines in the network.

●**Reports**: The reports tab provides a comprehensive reports of the definedconfigurations based on users, computers, and type. It also provides ready-made reports of the Active Directory components. For more details about the available reports, refer to Viewing Reports topic.

●A**dmin**: The admin tab helps you to customize the product to your environment. It helpsyou to define the scope of management, manage inactive users in your domain, manageMSI/EXE files and scripts, apart from other personalization options. For further details,refer to Configuring Endpoint Central section.

●**Support**: The support tab helps you to reach us for your needs, such as getting technicalsupport, requesting new features, participating in user discussions, and so on. It alsoprovides self-diagnostic details about the product.

Endpoint Central is available in four variants :

***○*** ***UEM Edition***

***○ Enterprise Edition***

***○ Professional Edition***

***○ Free Edition***

### Setting Up Desktop Central

**● Local office management**

**● Remote office management**

**● Roaming users management**

**● Desktop Central in a DMZ**

**● Desktop Central in AWS**

**● Desktop Central in Azure**

**● Mac management**

**● Linux management**

Learn to walk before you can run.

***1\. Setting up Patch Management***

***2\. Setting up Software Deployment***

***3\. Setting up Asset Management***

***4\. Automate mundane administrative tasks using Configurations***

***5\. Manage endpoints seamlessly using Tools that come handy***

***6\. Generate audit-ready Reports and gain better clarity***

### *Configuring Agent settings*

● Installing   Agents   from   Desktop   Central   Console

● Installing   Agents   Using   Windows   GPO (only for Windows)

● Installing   Agents   Manually

● Retry   Agent   Installation

● Uninstalling   Agents

● Removing   the   Computers

### **Installing Agents from Desktop Central Console**

**Admin tab -> SoM -> Computers --> Add**

**Computers** button.

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Installing Agents Manually

To install a LAN agent manually, follow the steps given below:

1\. Under **SoM**, select the **local office** you have added.

2\. In the **Download Agent** column, against the local office you have added, click the

**Download LAN Agent** icon

3\. Save the .zip file in the computer on which you want to install the agent

4\. Extract the contents of the zip file

5\. Open a command prompt with run as admin privilege and navigate to the location of

extracted zip folder and run the command **setup.bat**

6\. Select option 1 to install agent in this computer

You have now successfully deployed LAN agent.

# Managing Computers in Wide Area

### Networks (WAN)

Communication across these remote offices is

possible by two ways

● Through Distribution Server

● Direct communication with Desktop Central server

### When to use distribution server

Distribution server acts as a communication layer between your remote office computers and the Desktop Central server. It replicates the software and patch binaries from the Desktop Central server and gives it to the computers in that remote office. The remote office computers, instead of getting the patch and software binaries individually from the Desktop Central server, gets it from the Distribution server, thus saving your WAN bandwidth.

### When to use direct communication

When you choose your communication type as Direct communication, all the remote office computers will get the required data from the Desktop Central server directly.

### **Adding a remote office**

You can add the remote directly by selecting the **Remote offices** tab and clicking **Add Remote office**. The following points are needed to be taken care while adding a remote office.