Administrator Guide

In the Login dialog box, use the following guidelines:
• System Information—Click the Sys Info button to open the System Information dialog box. You can view the thin client system
information such as System Version, IP Address, information on devices connected to your thin client, event logs and so on. For more
information, see Accessing system information.
• Admin Mode—Click the Admin Mode button to congure various settings locally on the thin client other than broker desktop
congurations. For example, you can choose to manually congure the Citrix XenBroker Server URL or override the URL that is
centrally dened by le servers by using the Remote Connections dialog box as described in Remote Connections.
– Classic desktop—Use the Leave Administrator Mode option in the Shutdown dialog box.
– Zero desktop—Use the Leave Administrator Mode option in the Shutdown dialog box, or use the Leave Administrator Mode icon
(X) in the upper-right pane of the System Settings menu.
NOTE: By default the Admin Mode button is not displayed on the log on dialog box. You can display it by selecting the
Show local admin button check box in the Shutdown dialog box, see Signing o and shutting down.
NOTE: By default there is no password needed for the Admin Mode button use. You can password protect the Admin
Mode button (to require login credentials) by using the AdminMode parameter in a wnos.ini le, see Dell Wyse ThinOS INI
Guide.
• Shutdown—Click the Shutdown button to open and use the Shutdown dialog box to sign o, shut down, restart, reset the system
setting to factory defaults, and so on. For information, see Signing o and shutting down.
• Account Self-Service—Click the Account Self-Service icon shown when congured using the AccountSelfServiceoption of the
PasswordServer INI parameter to open and use the Account Self-Service dialog box to change or reset your own password and
unlock your account. For information on INI parameter, see Dell Wyse ThinOS INI Guide.
This process assumes that the security questions and answers have been pre-registered by the user inside their Windows environment.
Users must use HTTPS (not HTTP) for an account self-service server address such as Https://IPAddress, in the Broker Setup tab. For
more information, see Conguring the remote connections. After the security questions are answered, your new password will be set or
your account will be unlocked.
Accessing system information
Use the System Information dialog box to view system information.
• Classic desktop—Click System Information from the desktop menu.
• Zero desktop—Click the System Information icon on the zero toolbar.
The System Information dialog box includes:
• General tab—Displays general information such as System Version, Serial Number, Memory Size (Total and Free), CPU Speed, ROM
Size, Monitor, Parallel ports, Terminal Name, Boot from, Memory speed, SSD size, Resolution, and the Serial ports.
• Copyright tab—Displays the software copyright and patent notices.
Acknowledgments button is added in the Copyright tab in System Information. This button is related to third party software.
• Event Log tab—Displays the thin client start-up steps normally beginning from system version to checking rmware or error messages
that are helpful for debugging problems. The details about the monitors and USB connected to the thin client, and bluetooth
initialization are also displayed.
• Status tab—Displays status information about TCP performance related parameters, UDP performance related parameters, CPU Busy,
System Up Time, Wyse Management Suite status, Free Memory, Active sessions, and WDM status.
• IPv6 tab—Displays IPv6 information such as Link-local Address, IPv6 Address, and IPv6 Default Gateway.
NOTE
: This tab is displayed when IPv6 is enabled in the General tab of the Network Setup dialog box, see Conguring the
network settings.
• ENET tab—Displays information about wired network connections.
• WLAN tab—Displays information about wireless network connections.
• About tab—Displays information about the ThinOS operating system. The following attributes are listed:
– Platform name
– Operating system type
– ThinOS build name
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