Admin Console

What it is

The Admin Console gives you an interactive PowerShell session to a remote host over WinRM, with a real-time output pane. It's the fastest way to try a command, inspect a machine, or confirm a script behaves the way you expect — without wrapping it in a job first.

Connecting

1. 1

   Pick a host

   Choose a target that has a credential in the Credentials Store. The console authenticates the same way automation does — WinRM, over SSL when enabled.
2. 2

   Connect

   Open the session. Once connected, the prompt reflects the remote host and everything you type runs there.
3. 3

   Run commands

   Enter PowerShell interactively and watch results stream into the output pane in real time. Disconnect when you're done.

# Running live against the connected host
Get-Service WinRM
Get-CimInstance Win32_OperatingSystem | Select-Object Caption, Version
Get-Volume | Where-Object DriveLetter -eq 'C'

Test and validate scripts

Use the console to dry-run the tricky parts of a script — check that a path exists, that a service is present, or that your credentials reach the host — before you commit it to a runbook or a schedule. Validate first, automate second.

One-click WinRM SSL setup

The console toolbar includes a WinRM SSL action that configures encrypted WinRM on your hosts in one click. Select one or more targets, provide admin credentials, and ServerEngine sets up an HTTPS listener with a self-signed certificate and opens port 5986 — no manual winrm quickconfig or certificate wrangling.