User Preferences

User Preferences

To adjust NetWitness to best fit your environment and work practices, you can set your own global application preferences. You can:

• Change the application language
• Set the application time zone
• Set the date and time formats
• Select your default NetWitness starting location
• Select your default Investigate view
• Choose a dark or light theme for the application
• Change your password
• Enable notifications
• Enable context menus
• Change Investigate preferences - Described in the NetWitness Investigate User Guide.

Your global preference options vary depending on whether you access them, such as Springboard, Investigate, Respond, Users, Hosts, Files, Dashboard, Reports, Configure, and Admin. There are two global user preferences dialogs accessible from the main menu bar:

• User Preferences dialog - Accessible from these views: Springboard, Investigate > Events, Respond, Users, Hosts, Files, and (Configure) > (Capture Policies, Incident Rules, Incident Notifications, and Log Parser Rules).
• Preferences dialog - Accessible from these views: Investigate, Dashboard, Reports, (Configure) > (Live Content, Subscriptions, ESA Rules, and Custom Feeds), and (Admin) .

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Related Topics

• NetWitness Platform Basic Navigation

User Preferences

To access your user preferences, click your username, for example, .
The User Preferences dialog shows your current preferences and the NetWitness version.

The following table describes the global application preference options that you can access from the User Preferences dialog.