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Customization

What is Covered?• Overview• Color Scheme• Site Customization• Local Settings• Live Connect


Overview

Motivation• It is time to change the color, logo and

Agent Icons from the Kaseya default to something more relevant to FIU.

Customize Function Overview

a) Color Scheme: This function determines the set of colors displayed by the VSA environment. Color Scheme selection applies to all users within the same partition (on SaaS) or all users within the same on-premise KServer.

b) Site Customization: This function customizes the Logon Page (on-premise only), Site Header, Agent Icons, Deploy Header, and Org Custom Field Title.

c) Local Settings: This function customizes local settings such as Date and Number Format which will be applied system-wide. These settings currently affect the Time Tracking and Service Billing modules.

d) Live Connect: This function customizes Home tabs that display in the Live Connect and Portal Access windows. You can create multiple, customized Home tabs and save them by name.a

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Color Scheme

The Color Scheme Function• This function determines the set of colors

displayed by the VSA environment. • Color Scheme selection applies to all users

within the same partition or on the same on-premise KServer.

COLOR SCHEMELAB 1

LAB• Change the color scheme of VSA to better

match the FIU logo.

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Progress Check• Do you know how to change the color

scheme of your VSA to better fit the colors used in your company logo?


Site Customization

The Site Customization Function• This function provides the following tabs

for customizing the user interface for all users.– (on-premise only) Logon Page – Site Header– Agent Icons– Deploy Header– Org Custom Field Title

• Each tab is edited separately.

The Site Header Tab• The following settings can be customized:

– Logo: You can select a custom logo to replace the default logo. Click the Default button to reset.

– Title: You can enter a custom title that displays next to the logo. Click the Default button to reset.

– Header Height: The header height in pixels. Defaults to 50, which works best in most browsers.

– Favorites Icon: You can change the "favicon" image displays next to the text of the bookmark in your browser. Customize this image using a 16x16 pixel .ico file.

BRAND THE SITE HEADERLAB 2

LAB• Customize VSA by branding the Site Header

for FIU.

Note: The FIU logos and icons can be found at: http://users.cis.fiu.edu/~sadjadi/Teaching/IT%20Automation/K263/CustomAgentIcon.zip

http://users.cis.fiu.edu/~sadjadi/Teaching/IT%20Automation/K263/CustomAgentIcon.zip


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The Agent Icon Tab• This tab allows you to customize the agent

icons. • There are four icons showing the following

states:– Agent online: The agent is checking in

successfully.– Agent offline: The agent is not checking in.– Agent blinking: A message is waiting to be

read by the machine user.– Remote control is disabled: Remote control of

the managed machine has been disabled by the machine user.

Formatting Custom Agent Icons• For Windows custom agent icons:

– The format must be .ico. – The maximum size of 32x32 pixels is recommended.– The color depth cannot exceed 8 bit or 256 colors.

• For Macintosh custom agent icons:– The format must be .tif.– The maximum size of 48x48 pixels is recommended.– The color depth should be RGB 32 bit color.

• For Linux custom agent icons:– The format must be .png.– A size of 24x24 pixels is recommended.– The color depth cannot exceed 8 bit or 256 colors.

Icon Names• For Windows Agents:

– online.ico, offline.ico, blink.ico, and noremote.ico.

• For Mac Agents: – macOnline.tif, macOffline.tif, macNoremote.tif,

and macBlink.tif.• For Linux Agents:

– linuxOnline.png, linuxOffline.png, linuxNoremote.png, and linuxBlink.png.

BRAND THE AGENT ICONSLAB 3

LAB• Brand Agent Icons for FIU.• Ensure the deployed agents will also use

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Deploy Agent Icons• New agents will be deployed with the

custom agent icons.• To upload the custom agent icons for the

already deployed agents, all you need to do is to force an agent update on all of the managed machines.

• To make sure the custom icons will appear as soon as possible, you can run the Logoff User agent procedure.


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• If the agent icon does not show properly, even after running the Logoff User agent procedure, just restart the machines.

BRAND THE DEPLOY HEADERLAB 4

LAB• Customize the Deploy Header for FIU.




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The Org Custom Field Title Tab• This tab customizes the titles of custom

fields used to classify organizations. • You can assign values to custom fields using

System > Manage > Org/Groups/Depts/Staff > Custom Fields.

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Progress Check• Do you know how to customize and brand

the VSA by changing the following parts of VSA?– Site Header– Agent Icons– Deploy Header– Org Custom Field Title


Local Settings

The Local Settings Function• This function defines the system Date/Time

and currency formatting.• These settings currently affect the Time

Tracking and Service Billing modules.

Date Format• Format

– Selects the date format used by dates in the VSA:• mm/dd/yyyy• dd/mm/yyyy• yy/mm/dd

• Delimiter used – Selects the date format delimiter used by dates in the

VSA:• / (slash)• - (dash)• . (dot)

Number Format• Decimal Places

– Selects the number of decimal places used to display currency in the VSA.

• Decimal Format – Selects the decimal format used to display

currency in the VSA.– xx,xxx.xx– xx.xxx,xx

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Live Connect

The Live Connect Function• This function customizes Home tabs

displayed in the Live Connect and Portal Access windows.

• You can create multiple customized Home tabs and save them by name.

• These Home tabs are enabled for a particular role by enabling the appropriate Live Connect > Home tab(s) in:– System > User Roles > Access Rights– System > Machine Roles > Access Rights

The Live Connect Function (cont.)• You can customize three sections on the

default Home page.– Portal Header: Customize the text and image

displayed at the top of the Home tab.– Agent Procedures: Provide a customized list of

agent procedures the user can run immediately from this tab.

– Custom Links: Provide a customized list of URLs the user can click using this tab. For example, you may provide a URL to a webpage providing technical information used to troubleshoot problems on managed machines.

CUSTOMIZE LIVE CONNECTLAB 5

LAB• Customize live connect and brand it for FIU

by customizing the default Home tab for technicians’ Live Connect use:– Brand the Portal Header area.– Include all procedures for Common

Maintenance Tasks in the Agent Procedures area.

– Include links to FIU’s web site, phonebook, and campus map in the Custom Links area.

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CUSTOMIZE PORTAL ACCESSLAB 6

LAB• Customize live connect and brand it for FIU

by Creating a new Home tab for machine users’ Portal Access:– Brand the Portal Header area.– Include all procedures for Application Deploy in

the Agent Procedures area.– Include links to FIU’s web site in the Custom

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Progress Check• Do you know how to customize and brand the

VSA to your liking?

• Do you know how to change the contents of the default Home tab of Live Connect to better fit your needs?

• Do you know how to create a Welcome tab for machine users to use when accessing their Portal Access?


Summary

Summary• We learned how to brand VSA by

customizing:– Color Scheme– Site Header– Agent Icons– Deploy Header– Org Custom Field Title– Local Settings– Live Connect – Portal Access

THE END!

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