About the Support Tools Dashboard

The Support Tools Dashboard is a browser-based desktop that allows you to access and use all Support Tools utilities through a single interface. The Dashboard integrates access to all ICM systems, eliminating the need to manually connect to each remote system.

Accessing the

Dashboard

Users access the Dashboard via a URL

(http://<hostname_or_ip_address>:<Tomcat_HTTP_port>) entered in a browser window. Upon connecting, users must login by providing their Windows NT user name and password, or the user name and password of a privileged account.

Access to the Dashboard is restricted to the local network: access via the Internet is not supported. To access the Dashboard from a remote location, a user must connect and authenticate against the corporate network.

Dashboard Privileges

The Support Tools Dashboard recognizes two categories of users:

Privileged users have full access to all Support Tools functionality, including tools and commands that can be used to modify system settings, registries, etc.

Regular users have limited access to information gathering functionality only. Tools capable of system modification are not available to regular Support Tools users.

Support Tools assigns privilege based on regular Windows user groups (defined on your domain controller or through Active Directory). During the Support Tools Server installation, you are prompted to enter the name of one (and only one) Windows

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