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 - WDMVXC-M 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
WDMVXC-M 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 WDMVXC-M Console).
• Default Device Conguration (DDC) Support - WDMVXC-M allows you to easily create and manage DDCs. You can apply multiple
packages to a device from a single DDC.
• Add WDMVXC-M 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 5.7.1 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.
Additional VXC-M features include:
• Secure Communication between a VXC-M 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.
• Merlin, the New Imaging System - Provides HTTP, HTTPS and CIFS based imaging, as well as 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 for the use of 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 speeds up the overall update process. VXC-M 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 VXC-M components on one or more computers located on your
network.
• Default Device Conguration - The Default Device Conguration functionality 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, VXC-M will revert 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 VXC-M server by using this feature to
create up to a total of 30 dierent organizational views of your devices.
• Automated Grouping - Use this feature to automatically place any new device that has been added to the system into the pre-dened
groups that you want.
Introduction
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