Administrator Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell Edge Device Manager Version R17 Administrator’s Guide
- Introduction
- Key features
- EDM Dashboard overview
- Managing group and configs
- Managing Devices
- Apps and Data
- Managing rules
- Managing Jobs
- Events
- Managing users
- Portal administration
- Troubleshooting Edge Device Manager
- Supported devices
- Wireless profiles password editor
- Third party licenses
- License Type Details
- Apache License, Version 2.0
- Oracle Binary Code License
- GNU GPL V2
- Eclipse Public licenses- v 1.0
- MIT
- Public Domain
- MIT
- BSD-3 Clause
- MIT
- MIT
- zlib license
- MIT
- GNU GPL V2
- Unicode licenses agreement
- BSD 3 Clause
- MIT
- PCRE licenseMPL-2.0 ,GPL-2,LGPL-2.1,BSD-2-Clause,MIT,LGPL-2+, public-domain,ICU
- Boost Software licensesVersion 1.0
- BSD 3 Clause
- BSD 3 Clause
- Boost Software licenses- Version 1.0
- GNU Affero General Public License(AGPL)
- ssleay32.dll
- libcurl.dll
- libeay32.dll
- Newtonsoft.Json.dll
- RestSharp.dll
- Microsoft.Win32.TaskScheduler.dll
- 7-Zip
- Terminology
Key features
• Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2016 LTSB support for the following devices:
– Edge Gateway—5000 Series
– Embedded PC 3000
– Embedded PC 5000
• Updated EDM help URL—EDM help has a separate URL which is determined based on the available licenses.
• Advanced application policy
– Ability to push multiple application packages within single policy.
– Applies policy to the devices that matches operating system or platform lters; or operating system and platform lters.
– Supports preinstallation, and postinstallation scripts.
– Supports auto publish image, and application policies for new devices. The list of the group image, and application policies from the
server should be obtained, when a device registers, re-registers, or changes the group.
NOTE: This feature is available for the Windows devices.
• Localization support for French, Italian, German, Simplied Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish in the Wyse Management Suite web
console.
• On-premise installer enhancements—The on-premise installer enhancements for the following actions:
– Option to use existing database that can be installed on a same machine or separate machine as EDM Server.
– Option to change default ports of all the services.
– Upgrade support from Edge Device Manager R15 and R16.
• Unied Wyse Device Agent—The Unied Wyse Device Agent is a simple and fast installer for windows devices. It is a single agent for
thin clients and the IoT devices.
• Groups page enhancement—The User count is removed and if you click the number of devices, it takes you to the devices page with
the selected group lter, and if you click the number of noncompliant devices, it takes you to the devices page with the selected group
and noncompliance lter.
• Supports BIOS update for the Windows devices—Windows Gateway and Embedded PC BIOS can be updated from the Wyse
Management Suite console.
• Performance—EDM R17 is tested with 120,000 devices.
NOTE
: Administrator must follow the document to congure this environment.
• Operating system and agent version lters—New lters for operating system and agent versions are added. When a device is
registered, the operating system and agent lter are added with the versions.
• MySQL for private cloud—EDM can be installed with MySQL by using the Custom Installation option.
NOTE
: The feature is tested for the version 5.6.37.
• Heartbeat and check-in-v2—You can congure heartbeat and check-in interval in the Portal Administration page. The agents fetches
the pending commands post heartbeat conguration. For private cloud, the heartbeat interval ranges from 5–6 hours, and for public
cloud ranges from 1–6 hours and the Check-in interval ranges from 8 to 24 hours. The Heartbeat interval is not aected by the device
status—oine or online.
• CA Validation for le repository—Private or public cloud of EDM allows CA validation conguration to download les from a remote
repository and it is available for all license types. Without this conguration, WDM le repository should have a CA signed certicate or
HTTP download must be enabled. It is not applicable for imaging jobs. CA validation aects les which are present only in the le
repository only. Downloading the le from WDA server APIs such as EULA, wallpaper, and logo is not aected. A global administrator
can turn the CA validation to ON/OFF for each repository from Portal Administration > File Repository.
• EDM console page size and lter enhancement—You can congure the size from the server for 10 to 100. It provides an option to save
the lter and administrator can make it as default lter.
• Supports Apply to devices on check-in option—The Advanced application policies—for pro license has a drop-down Apply to devices
on check-in, when this option is selected, you can select the maximum number of retries. The Standard application policies for a pro
license account also have a drop-down Apply to devices on check-in, when this option is selected, you can select the maximum
number of retries. If the policy has not been sent, and the maximum number of retries is not exceeded, the policy is sent to the client
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