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⚙️Configuring Lens
Authentication
Configuring Active Directory authentication
Configuring SAML/SSO authentication
Configuring Multi-Factor authentication (MFA)
Roles
Assigning roles to SAML users and groups
Creating and removing a role
Editing role settings
Editing role permissions
Pool assignments
Sites/Locations and collectors
Configuring sites: Brokering
Configuring sites: Display protocols & sessions
Configuring sites: Workstations
Site/location status
Viewing and managing collectors
Connection brokering
Testing a broker connection
Adding, modifying, and removing a broker
Advanced
Configuring data retention
🎨Customising Lens
Administrator Dashboard
Configuring widgets
What widgets can I choose from?
Glance widgets
Widgets: Cloud Spend
Widgets: System Status
Widgets: Provisioning
Main widgets
Widgets: Cloud Costs
Widgets: Events
Widgets: Licencing
Widgets: Pool usage
Widgets: Pools
Widgets: The toolbar
Widgets: Workstation State
Widgets: Workstation Status
Adding & removing widgets
Moving & resizing widgets
Branding the Portal
Bookmarks
Adding & removing a bookmark
Modifying a bookmark
🔌Infrastructure
Controlling the infrastructure
Monitoring storage
Infrastructure: Auto-scaling groups
Infrastructure groups
Adding, modifying and removing groups
Infrastructure: Instances
Infrastructure: Operations
Scheduling infrastructure
Scheduling infrastructure: Operation types
Scheduling infrastructure: Enabling & disabling the schedule
Scheduling infrastructure: Adding a new event
🖥️ Workstations
Connecting to a workstation
Controlling and monitoring workstations
Viewing a workstation's status
Controlling individual workstations
Changing a workstation's availability
Disconnecting a user from a workstation
Viewing workstation operations
Scheduling workstations
Scheduling workstations: Operation types
Scheduling workstations: Enabling & disabling the schedule
Scheduling workstations: Adding a new event
Image search
Adding an image search configuration
Removing an image search configuration
Modifying an image search configuration
Workstation templates
Creating a new workstation template
Cloning a workstation template
Renaming a workstation template
Removing a workstation template
Template versioning
Lens Workstation Agent
Lens Workstation Agent requirements
Installing and configuring the Lens Workstation Agent
Setting the Lens Workstation API key
Checking the status of the Lens Workstation Agent
Checking the Lens Workstation Agent logs
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