Home Ribbon Page

The Home Ribbon page contains all main actions related to the primary features of Remote Installer. This chapter will describe each group and the actions available in it for the Home page.

Software Ribbon Group

The Software Ribbon group should be used for managing installations on remote Machines and scanning remote Machines for software.

Deploy Software

The Deploy Software button can be used to perform either quick installation or advanced remote deployment of software to the selected remote Machines.

Scan Software

The Scan Software button should be used to retrieve information on programs and updates installed on remote Machines.

Network Ribbon Group

The Network Ribbon group contains actions intended for filling the program network structure with Machines.

	Enumerate Machines The Enumerate Machines button should be used to display the Enumerate Machines wizard, which can help you with adding Machines to the program for further processing.
	Scan Network The Scan Network button should be used to scan the entire network or specific Groups for Machines and add them to the program for further processing.
	Add IP Range The Add IP Range button should be used to add Machines to the program by scanning a specific range of IP addresses.
	Add Machine The Add Machine button should be used to add a single Machine to a specific Group for further processing.

New Ribbon Group

The New Ribbon group contains the actions for creating new business objects within Remote Installer.

	Bundle The Bundle button should be used to create a new Bundle and add it to the Software Bundles repository.
	Bundle from Template The Bundle from Template button allows you to create a Bundle from an already defined or new template.
	Bundle Group The Bundle Group button should be used to create a new Bundle Group and add it to the Software Bundles repository.
	Collection The Collection button should be used to create a new Collection to group static Machines and Queries to fetch Machines dynamically.
	Scheduled Task The Scheduled Task button should be used to create and schedule a new Task.