# Admin

The Admin button is only available to those with Admin permissions such as **Manage users**, **Manage folders/locations**, etc. This section explains how Admin users can create, edit, delete and move folders, locations, watches and users. It also covers more advanced functionality such as alerting thresholds, sensitivity settings, bulkloading, and setting up performance tests, switches, WiFi, NBAR and Flow.

### Admin tabs

* [**Browse** Admin search, filter and create](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/browse)
* [**Pending** Edit pending watches](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/pending_watches)
* [**Agents** Create and manage agents](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/agents)
* [**Controllers** Link to other controller and controller watches pages or see section below](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/sdwan)

### Highlight tree structure

* [**Create tree** Create/edit folder or location](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/create_tree)
* [**Move** Move folders, locations, users and watches](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/moving)
* [**Business Hours** How to set up business hours plus where in Highlight they are used](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/business_hours)
* [**CCD** How to set up Highlight to define which classes to discover](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/ccd)

### Watches/Controllers/Containers

A watch is defined in our glossary as “an individual monitoring task that Highlight carries out to collect a specific set of information from a given device at regular intervals.”

* [**New watch** Create a new watch in Admin Pending](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/create_watch)
* [**Bulkload watches**Procedure for bulkloading new watches](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/bulkload_watches)
* [**SNMP pending** Edit and activate watches in Highlight which are not yet live](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/pending_watches)
* [**Edit watch** Change existing watches](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/edit_watch)
* [**Watch fields** An infographic](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/watch_fields)
* [**Legacy controller** Create a legacy WiFi controller or edit an existing controller](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/create_controller)
* [**Container**Create a container or edit an existing container](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/create_container)

### Controllers and Controller watches: SD-WAN uplinks, tunnels, WiFi, switches plus performance agents

* [**Link to pages** Link to related pages](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/sdwan)
* [**Controller Admin** How to use the Admin page showing controllers, devices, watches and tunnels](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/sdwan_admin_page)
* [**Controllers** Create and manage controllers](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/sdwan_controllers)
* [**Discovered items** Edit autodiscovered devices, watches, tunnels, switches, WAPs and performance agents](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/sdwan_items)
* [**Controller pending** How to use pending for controller watches](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/sdwan_pending)

### Users

* [**Users** Create, edit or delete a user account, permissions explained](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/create_user)

### Performance testing

* [**Create tests** Set up performance tests in Highlight](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/create_performance_test)
* [**Performance tests**Bulkload performance tests procedure](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/bulkload_tests)
* [**Create test template** Set up or edit performance test templates](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/create_test_template)

### Alerting

Customise the thresholds and sensitivity which Highlight uses to generate alerts (if set up) and change heat tile colour

* [**Thresholds**Customise alerting thresholds for WiFi, bearers and classes](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/alerting_thresholds)
* [**Sensitivity**Customise when alerts are sent and when heat tiles change colour](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/heat_tiles_sensitivity)

### Application monitoring

* [**NBAR** Set up Cisco NBAR](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/nbar)
* [**Flow** Set up Flow](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/flow)
* [**AppVis** Set up AppVis™ on a watch](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/appvis)

### WiFi monitoring - legacy

* [**WiFi controllers** Add or edit WiFi controller (for Aruba AirWave, Aruba Instant On, Cisco, Ruckus and Ubiquiti)](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/create_controller)

### Switch monitoring

* [**Switch** Add switch monitoring to a watch and set which ports are critical](https://support.highlight.net/help/admin/switches)


---

# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://help.highlight.net/admin.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.