Administrator Guide

• Recurring scheduler - Allows packages to be scheduled repeatedly: daily (or specic weekdays), weekly, and monthly, upto a specic
date or for a xed number of times.
• Device Conguration Deployment - You can create dierent congurations that can be deployed to a device independent of an image.
• Repository Creation and Administration - WDM allows you to easily build and administer a repository of software, images, and
conguration updates for distribution.
• Device Views - With Device Views you can easily view and modify device information, allowing you to generate useful logs and device
reports.
• Distributed Administration - Provides you with granular control of administrator rights based on user groups or individual users. For
example, you can provide Administrator A with rights to view and provide updates to Groups 1, 2, and 3, but not 4; while providing
Administrator B with rights to view and provide updates to Group 4 only.
• Administrator Specied Bandwidth Control - Allows you to control the bandwidth to be used for server communications (for example,
you can congure a server to use a lower bandwidth based on the availability; or congure dial-up connections to be at a lower speed
than broadband speed by using a simple prole setup).
• Restart Failed Updates Option - Congure and use this option to easily restart failed updates. You can decide the number of times
WDM should retry updates (either a package or an image) before it is changed to an error (the number of retries and errors can be
viewed in the WDM Console).
• Default Device Conguration (DDC) Support - WDM allows you to easily create and manage DDCs. You can apply multiple packages
to a device from a single DDC.
• Add WDM Users - You can add active directory users or local users in the WDM UI and provide the permissions.
• Enhanced Report Support - Following reports are available in WDM Web UI:
– Application Reports—This enables the user to create a report for listing the devices that have specic software installed and
version selected by the user
– Remote Session Reports—The Remote session report provides remote session connection information on all the devices.
– Log Reports—This provides important information about the events or activities went into WDM server related to WDM
components.
Key features of WDM Enterprise edition
Additional WDM Enterprise Edition features include:
• Secure Communication between a WDM Server, Repository, and a Device - Provides secure communications between client and
web server by encrypting trac to and from the client and server and by issuing certicates. Certicates must be signed by an
authority which certies that the certicate holder is the entity it claims to be. Organizations may choose to be their own certicate
authority for internal web server access.
WDM Web UI supports Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS).
• Merlin Imaging System - Provides HTTP, HTTPS, and CIFS based imaging, and provides better performance when deploying large
images.
• Added Scalability with Remote Repositories - Scale your solution by adding remote repositories to your infrastructure. This
functionality allows to use the remote server locations for storing terminal rmware and software. This reduces the amount of network
trac over a wide-area network (WAN) because the bulk of the update trac (the actual image itself) is transferred only once over
the WAN to the Remote Repository. Devices can retrieve the update software from the remote server rather than centralized server.
This also increases the speed of the overall update process. WDM still allows you, however, to perform all device management from a
central server (for example, from your data center).
• Distributed Architecture - This feature allows you to place the WDM components on one or more computers on your network.
• Default Device Conguration - This feature allows you to congure default software and device congurations for a group of devices.
This functionality ensures that the device conforms to your congurations from a software and device conguration perspective. If
there is any deviation from default congurations, WDM reverts the device back to your specied congurations. This feature
automates the recovery of failed devices, the re-purposing of existing devices, and the addition of new devices within an existing
infrastructure.
• Expanded Hierarchical Views - Expand the visual device management capabilities of your WDM server by using this feature to create
up to a total of 30 dierent organizational views of your devices.
• Automated Grouping - This feature is used to automatically place any new device that has been added to the system into the
predened groups that you want.
Introduction
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