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The Configuration page allows you to categorize and group up information specific to different products being built with IncrediBuild. Through the Configurations page you can group up information regarding a specific product being built, the Agents used for the build, the build commands used, and the users involved with each build. By setting up configurations you can view, categorize, and filter through any piece of information you may be interested in.

If you are developing more than one product, want to view the performance for a specific group of Agent machines, or want to view the build performance for a specific set of builds that use a particular build command, you will want to setup some configurations. It is especially useful because you can then pinpoint specific problems, compare the performance between different build groups and different Agents groups.

Products Configuration

Products Configuration gives you the ability to separate your builds based off of what product IncrediBuild is being used for.

Example:

• You are using IncrediBuild to distribute processes for two different products. Let's say you are developing a product for Windows OS and another for Linux OS. You can group all builds related to the Windows version in one group and group all builds related to Linux in another. Hence, you can use the Dashboard to separately monitor the build information for both the Windows product and the Linux product from the same place. You would just need to change between the filters on the Dashboard after you have configured the rules for each product from the Products Configuration page. 

How to Create a New Product Configuration

1. From the Products Configuration page, click Add Product.
2. This will open the new product page.
3. Enter in the name of your product and give a short description if you'd like.
4. Click on "save and go to rules."
5. Give your rule a name 
   1. For example, if this is for the Windows version from the example above, you can call this "WindowsProduct."
   2. Now you specify the requirements to meet the criteria for your rule.
   3. Say you want to group up all builds that had the string characters "Windows" in the build command line argument, then you would enter "Windows" in the string text field.
   4. Now all builds that contain the word "Windows" are grouped up under the Product we just named "WindowsProduct."
6. Click on Save Rule when you are satisfied with the rule requirements.
7. Alternatively, you can manually select which build command arguments to include from the Product Commands page.
   1. visual example once it works for my dashboard instance.

Agents Configuration

From the Agents Configuration page you can group up different Agents based off the strings used in their names. Once they are grouped you can go to the Agents page and filter between the different Agent Configurations to change the graphic display to illustrate data specific to that Agent group.

Example:

• You have Agents running on machines on your local network, but you also have Virtual Machines with Agents running on them. Let's assume every Virtual Machine with Agents on them have names that begin with "vm". you can set the string text value to "vm" as a rule and now all Agents that contain the string value "vm" in their names are grouped together under the same name.

How to Create a New Agent Configuration

1. From the Agents tab, click on "Add Agent."
2. This will open the New Agent page.
3. Enter a name you find suitable for this group of Agents and add a description
4. click on "Save and Continue to Rules" when you are done
5. Next the Agent Rules Tab will open up.
6. Give your rule a name
7.  To add exceptions or restrictions, enter a string of characters into the "String Text" field that are relevant to the names of the Agents you would like to group up 
   1. For example, in the above example we used how all the virtual machines names began with "vm", so we can use "vm" to differentiate between local and distributed Agents.
8. Add as many rules as you would like, and when you are done click on "Save Rule."
9. Alternatively, you can click on the "Agents" tab and manually select the Agents you want to group up.

Users Configuration

The Users Configuration page allows you to add and remove users who have access to the dashboard. You can also give them permissions and restrictions on which pages they have access to? (It doesn't work for me to even check the settings)

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