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BigFix Remote Control application helps to communicate between different components, clients, and endpoints within BigFix environment.
Remote Control Administrators Guide
This guide is for users who want to administer Remote Control.
Configuration and troubleshooting options in the Admin menu
Use the Microsoft Entra ID wizard
Testing your Microsoft Entra ID connection

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.
  - Set a secure environment
    Set a secure environment when you are using Remote Control.
  - Secure target registration
    To prevent unauthorized targets from registering with the Remote Control server, you can use tokens to authenticate the target.
  - Configure SAML 2.0 authentication on the server
    Remote Control V9.1.3 introduced support for SAML 2.0 authentication on the Remote Control server.
  - Access the server web interface
    After you install the BigFix® Remote Control Server software and the BigFix Remote Control Target software, you can log on to the server application. For more information about installing and configuring the server and target software, see the Remote Control Installation Guide
  - Using the Deployment Status Dashboard
    The Deployment Status Dashboard provides a quick view of the system and brokers health status.
  - Unattended Target Support
    The Unattended Target Support feature allows you to take remote control sessions of targets that are connected through a broker, without the need to provide a connection code. In strict remote control terminology, an unattended target is a managed target that performs Call Home through a broker.
  - Unlocking user accounts
    When a user account is locked, you can unlock the account by using the Unlock locked userid feature.
  - Manage targets and target groups
  - Manage users and user groups
  - Server session policies
  - How session policies are determined
  - Starting a managed session by using an installed controller
    When you start a managed session, you can configure the server to use an installed controller rather than using the Java™ Web Start method. Note that the Java Web Start plugin method is deprecated in Remote Control starting from Version 10.0.0 Update 8 (Build Number 0802). This feature makes starting a session faster and it removes any warning message windows that are displayed while the session is starting.
  - Manage permission sets for temporary access to targets
  - Requests for temporary access to targets
  - Generate custom reports
  - Manage the home page for a user or group
  - Adding tables and columns to queries
  - Configuration and troubleshooting options in the Admin menu
    - Editing the properties file
    - Use the LDAP wizard
    - Use the Microsoft Entra ID wizard
    - Viewing the application log
    - Saving the application log for exporting
    - Import data into the database
    - Viewing the server status
    - Viewing the remote control gateways
    - Creating a remote control gateway
    - Resetting the Application
    - Configuring the user acceptance window
    - Uploading user acceptance window icons
    - Creating a set of permissions that can be applied to a group
    - Viewing the permissions sets
    - Creating a secure registration token
      You can create a secure authentication token for secure target registration.
    - Viewing the list of secure registration tokens
      After you create secure registration tokens, you can view the list of tokens by using the List Secure Registration Tokens option.
    - Viewing the list of secure registration tokens
      After you create secure registration tokens, you can view the list of tokens by using the List Secure Registration Tokens option.
    - Use rules to define target membership
  - Ensure targets are registered correctly
  - Record the session on the target
  - Set up for exporting recordings
  - Audit log distribution
  - Access targets on different networks
  - Editing the properties files
    You can use the properties files in Remote Control to customize your environment, configure Microsoft Entra ID or LDAP, set debug options, and set controller and on-demand target properties. The files can be edited in the BigFix® Remote Control Server UI.
  - Reduce the volume of target connections to the server
  - Broker configuration
    When you install broker support you can use the installed trc_broker.properties file to configure your environment for using the broker function.
  - Managing brokers
    After installing broker support you can register the broker machines in the Remote Control server. When they have been registered you can view the list of brokers, edit the broker details and delete brokers that are no longer required.
  - Certificate management
    Remote Control uses certificates in the Server and in the Broker to address the authentication and verification required for ensuring secure connections between the different product components.
  - Migrating to a new certificate
    If your existing certificates are due to expire, you can create new certificates. Distribute the new certificates to the relevant endpoints so that they can continue to successfully establish remote control sessions through the broker.
  - Configuring the session connection code
    You can define the number of characters required and the timeout value, for the connection code used when starting a remote control session through a broker.
  - Target registration before a remote control session
    When you have targets that are on the internet or third-party networks and cannot register directly with the Remote Control server you can configure server properties to allow the target to register with the server. When the target registers, you can start a remote control session with the target, by using a broker.
  - Configure target properties
  - Importing data from other sources
  - Database table and column descriptions
  - Troubleshooting and Help
  - Gateway sample scenarios
  - Properties for configuring logging activity
    Use properties to determine what type of information and how much is written to the broker, gateway, and target component log files.
  - Override proxy
    The controller uses the proxy defined at system level by default. In some conditions, this may not be desirable. Creating a file named “override.proxy” in the controller install folder changes the default behavior and the system proxy is ignored
- Remote Control Console User Guide
- 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

Testing your Microsoft Entra ID connection

About this task

The first step is to test that you can successfully connect to Microsoft Entra ID. This section of the utility must be completed and verified before you can continue. To test your Microsoft Entra ID connection, complete the following steps:

Procedure

Enter the connection information.
Client ID

Defines the Client ID used to establish a connection to Microsoft Entra ID.

Tenant ID

Defines the Tenant ID used to establish a connection to Microsoft Entra ID.

Secret

This must be set to the secret defined for authenticating. You can enter a plain text or an encrypted secret. If you enter a plain text secret, you can encrypt it by clicking Encrypt Password.
Note: When you click Encrypt Password, Secret Encrypted is automatically selected. If you enter an encrypted secret, you must also select Secret Encrypted.

Secret Encrypted
Determines whether the secret is treated as encrypted or not. If you select Secret Encrypted, the password is treated as encrypted and if you do not select it, the password is treated as plain text.
Note:

This option is automatically selected when you click Encrypt Password.

If you enter an encrypted secret in the Secret field and deselect Secret Encrypted, the password is not decrypted. The password remains encrypted for security reasons.
Azure Authority Host
Specifies the Azure Authority Host to use. The value of the property is one of the following strings:
- https://login.microsoftonline.com/ (Public Cloud)
- https://login.microsoftonline.us/ (US Government)
Click Test Connection.

Results

If a successful connection is made to Microsoft Entra ID, Connection OK is displayed. If a connection is not possible, then Connection Error is displayed. Click the question mark for more details of what is causing the error.

After you have a successful connection to Microsoft Entra ID, you can then configure and test group and user search parameters.

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