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Console Operator's Guide
Learn how to work with the BigFix Console.
Domains
Minimizing the Domain Panel
If you need more panel space, you can minimize the Domain Panel by clicking the minimize icon at the upper right of the panel.

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
  - Introducing Domains
    Domains represent the major organizing principle in the BigFix Console.
  - Domain Sites
    Domains are composed of related sites, grouped together for convenience and because they share a similar structure.
  - Selecting Domains
    You typically have several Domains available to you, each covering a group of related tasks that fall into the purview of a specified Console Operator.
  - Navigating Domains
    Domains are a logical collection of sites that all have similar purposes and structure.
  - Minimizing the Domain Panel
    If you need more panel space, you can minimize the Domain Panel by clicking the minimize icon at the upper right of the panel.
  - Deleting Domains
    A domain can be deleted when all of its constituent sites have been deleted. In the Domain Panel, find the icon for the collection of sites.
- Roles
- Client Computers
- Computer Groups
- Analyses
- Baselines
- Relays and Servers
- Activating the license counting process
- Displays and Reports
- Menus
- The Dialogs

Minimizing the Domain Panel

If you need more panel space, you can minimize the Domain Panel by clicking the minimize icon at the upper right of the panel.

This window displays how you can minimize the Domain Panel by clicking the minimize icon at the upper right of the panel.

This reduces the panel to a small stub at the left of the Console window. To restore the Domain Panel, click the stub.

This window displays the panel that has been reduced to a small stub at the left of the Console window.