Administrator Guide

Functional areas of management console
The Wyse Management Suite console is organized into the following functional areas:
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● The Dashboard page provides information about each functional area of the system.
● The Groups page employs a hierarchical group policy management for device configuration. Optionally, subgroups of the
global group policy can be created to categorize devices according to corporate standards. For example, devices may be
grouped based on job functions, device type, and so on.
● The Users page enables local users, and users imported from the Active Directory to be assigned global administrator, group
administrator, and viewer roles to log in to Wyse Management Suite. Users are given permissions to perform operations
based on the roles assigned to them.
● The Devices page enables you to view and manage devices, device types, and device-specific configurations.
● The Apps & Data page provides management of device applications, operating system images, policies, certificate files,
logos, and wallpaper images.
● The Rules page enables you to add, edit, and enable or disable rules such as auto grouping and alert notifications.
● The Jobs page enables you to create jobs for tasks such as reboot, WOL, and application or image policy that need to be
deployed on registered devices.
● The Events page enables you to view and audit system events and alerts.
● The Portal Admin page enables administrators to configure various system settings such as local repository configuration,
license subscription, active directory configuration, and two-factor authentication.
Configuring and managing thin clients
Configuration management—Wyse Management Suite supports a hierarchy of groups and subgroups. Groups can be created
manually or automatically based on rules defined by the system administrator. You can organize the groups based on the
functional heirarachy, for example marketing, sales, and engineering, or based on the location hierarchy, for example, country,
state, and city.
NOTE:
In the Pro edition, you can add rules to create groups. You can also assign devices to an existing group depending on the
device attributes such as subnet, time zone, and location.
You can also configure the following:
● Settings that apply to all devices in the tenant account which are set at the Default Policy group. These settings are the
global set of parameters that all groups and subgroups inherit from. The settings that are configured at lower-level groups
take precedence over the settings that were configured at the parent or higher-level groups.
● Settings that are specific to a particular device which can be configured from the Device Details page. These settings, like
lower-level groups, take precedence over the settings configured in the higher-level groups.
When you create and publish the policy, the configuration parameters are deployed to all the devices in that group including the
subgroups.
After a policy is published and propagated to the devices, the settings are not sent again to the devices until you make any
change. New devices that are registered, receive the configuration policy that is effective for the group to which it was
registered. This includes the parameters inherited from the global group and intermediate level groups.
Configuration policies are published immediately, and cannot be scheduled for a later time. Few policy changes, for example
display settings, may force a reboot.
Application and operating system image deployment—Applications and operating system image updates can be deployed
from the Apps & Data tab. Applications are deployed based on the policy groups.
NOTE:
Advanced application policy allows you to deploy an application to the current and all subgroups based on your
requirement. Operating system images can be deployed to the current group only.
10 Getting started with Wyse Management Suite