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Widgets: Pools
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Widgets: Ngenea Hydration Status
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📊 Analytics
Analytics Insights
Insights → Connection quality
Insights → Sessions
Sessions → User insights
Sessions → Active Sessions
Sessions → History
Sessions → The 'Session Analyser'
Insights → Workstations
Workstations → Usage
Workstations → Egress
Analytics Billing
Billing → AWS → Overview
Billing → AWS → Object Storage
Billing → AWS → Block Storage
Billing → AWS → Data Transfer
Billing → AWS → Details
Analytics Events
🔌Infrastructure
Infrastructure overview
Controlling the infrastructure
Infrastructure: Auto-scaling groups
Infrastructure: Instances
Infrastructure: Operations
Monitoring storage
Infrastructure scheduling
Scheduling infrastructure: Operation types
Scheduling infrastructure: Enabling & disabling the schedule
Scheduling infrastructure: Adding a new event
Scheduling infrastructure: Copying events
Scheduling infrastructure: Removing an event
Infrastructure configuration
Infrastructure groups
Adding a group
Modifying a group
Removing a group
Ordering a group
🖥️ Workstations
Workstation overview
Controlling and monitoring workstations
Viewing a workstation's status
Checking the status of the Lens Workstation Agent
Controlling individual workstations
Changing a workstation's availability
Disconnecting a user from a workstation
Viewing workstation operations
Removing workstations from Lens
Workstation scheduling
Scheduling workstations: Operation types
Scheduling workstations: Enabling & disabling the schedule
Scheduling workstations: Adding a new event
Scheduling workstations: Copying events
Scheduling workstations: Removing an event
Workstation configuration
Workstation templates
Creating a new workstation template
Cloning a workstation template
Renaming a workstation template
Removing a workstation template
Template versioning
Image search
Adding an image search configuration
Modifying an image search configuration
Removing an image search configuration
Pools
Rules & Rule sets
Creating a ruleset
Modifying a rule set
Removing a rule set
Managing pools
Creating a pool
Editing a pool
Removing pools
Testing pool memberships
Access controls
Providing access a pool
Revoking access from a pool
Policies
Policy Rules & Rule sets
Creating a policy rule set
Modifying a policy rule set
Removing a policy rule set
Managing policies
Creating a policy
Removing a policy
Editing a policy
Modifying the policy processing order
Testing policies
Allocations
Creating an allocation
Editing an allocation
Removing an allocation
Viewing allocations
⚙️ Configuration
Configuration → Settings
General
Licensing the Lens Portal
Configuring data retention
Configuring Geo-IP
Setting the application log level
Branding the Portal
Bookmarks
Adding & removing a bookmark
Modifying a bookmark
Authentication
Authentication Providers
Configuring Active Directory authentication
Configuring SAML/SSO authentication
Multi-factor Authentication (MFA)
Configuring Duo MFA
Roles
Creating and removing a role
Editing role settings
Editing role permissions
Identity mapping
Assigning roles to SAML users and groups
Configuring a connection broker
Adding a broker
Modifying a broker
Removing a broker
Testing a broker connection
Sites/Locations and collectors
Configuring sites: Brokering
Brokering: Leostream
Configuring sites: Display protocols & sessions
Configuring sites: Workstations
Site/location status
Viewing and managing collectors
Configuration → Tasks
Configuration → About
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