Manage the home page for a user or group

When you log on to the IBM® BigFix® Remote Control Server, the first page that is displayed is the default home page. You can set your own home page, set the home page for a user, or set the home page for a group of users. If you have a list of targets that you access regularly, you can create a favorites list and set it as your default home page. If you want a group of users to see a list of specific targets when they log on, you can create a custom report to display these targets and set it as their default home page. The page that is displayed when a user logs on to the IBM BigFix Remote Control Server is determined by the following conditions.

  1. Does the user have a default home page set?
    Yes
    This home page is the page that is displayed when the user logs on.
    No
    Check the users groups for a home page.
  2. Do any of the groups that the user belongs to have default a home page set?
    Yes
    • If only one group has a default home page set, this home page is displayed when the user logs on.
    • If more than one group has a default home page set, the home page that was most recently set for the groups is displayed.
    No
    The trc.properties file is checked.
  3. If no default home page is set by the user or for any groups that the user belongs to, the value of the default.homepage.method property in the trc.properties file is used.
    Note: The value of default.homepage.method is set to report by default, which displays the report that is defined in the default.query property. This report is the All targets report by default. If default.homepage.method is set to search, the search targets page is displayed when the user logs on. For more information, see trc.properties.

The default home page that is set by the user, overrides any home page that is set for the groups that the user belongs to. For example, user1 sets a default home page to the favorites list of targets. User1 is a member of user group testusers. A custom query of all targets that are manufactured by companyX is created and is set to the default home page for user group testusers. However, when user1 logs on it is the favorites list that is displayed as the home page.