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Topics marked with * relate to HQ Enterprise-only features.

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Administration Page

This page appears when you click Administration in the Masthead. Only users with administrator privilege can use the features on this page.

Authentication/Authorization

The "Authentication/Authorization" section has options for viewing and updating HQ user accounts.

In HQ Enterprise only, additional options for managing roles are also available.*

For more information, see HQ Users and Roles.

HQ Server Settings

The "HQ Server Settings" section has links to several configuration pages:

  • HQ Server Settings - You can set a variety of deployment-wide HQ Server configuration options here. For more information see the associated help page.
  • Monitoring Defaults - You set the default monitoring settings for each resource type on this page.  For more information see the associated help pageNote:  Although metric collection settings defined here can be over-written for an individual resource,  such changes will not persist when type-level defaults are updated. Each time you update the monitoring configuration for a resource type, the settings for each individual resource of that type are updated.
  • Escalation Schemes Configuration - Use this page to create and manage escalation schemes for use in alert definitions. For more information see the associated help page.

Plugins

This section is an attachment point for HQU plugins.

HQU plugins are Groovy-based HQ extensions that can be attached:

  • to the Views tab for a resource type,
  • as an item on a Masthead tab menu, or
  • to the "Plugins" section of HQ's Administration tab.
    HQ has a number of built-in HQU plugins. Users can also develop and deploy custom HQU plugins. For more information see HQU Documentation.

The built-in HQU plugins available here are:

  • Network and Host Dependency Manager* - In HQ Enterprise, you can use this plugin to define the relationship between platforms and network hosts or devices. For more information see the associated help page.
  • HQ Health - Provides real-time diagnostic data for the HQ Server host used by HQ Support for troubleshooting. For more information see the associated help page.
  • Groovy Console - Allows users to run Groovy code directly in the HQ Server. For more information see the associated help page.
  • HQ Web Services API - The API enables programmatic and command-line access to the HQ Server. Introduced in HQ 4.0, the web services API replaces the command-line interface (CLI) provided in previous version of HQ. For more information, see HQ Web Services API.

HQ License Information

This section lists the license information for the HQ server:

  • Name - The name on the license.
  • Expires - The date the license expires.
  • Platform Limit - The number of platforms (network boxes) the license allows HQ to manage.
  • Current Platform Count - The number of platforms that are currently managed by HQ.
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