Administrator Guide

• The Apps & Data page provides management of device applications, operating system images, policies, certicate les, logos, and
wallpaper images.
• The Rules page enables you to add, edit, and enable or disable rules such as auto grouping and alert notications.
• 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 Administration page enables you to congure various system settings such as local repository conguration, license
subscription, active directory conguration, and two-factor authentication.
Conguring and managing thin clients
Conguration management—Wyse Management Suite supports a hierarchy of groups and subgroups. Groups can be created manually or
automatically based on rules dened 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 congure 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 congured at lower-level groups take precedence over the
settings that were congured at the parent or higher-level groups.
• Settings that are specic to a particular device which can be congured from the Device Details page. These settings, like lower-level
groups, take precedence over the settings congured in the higher-level groups.
When you create and publish the policy, the conguration 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 conguration policy that is eective for the group to which it was registered. This includes the
parameters inherited from the global group and intermediate level groups.
Conguration 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.
Wyse Management Suite supports standard and advanced application policies. A standard application policy allows you to install a single
application package. You need to reboot the device before and after each application installation. With an advanced application policy,
multiple application packages can be installed with only two reboots. This feature is available only in the Pro edition. Advanced application
policies also support execution of pre-and-post installation scripts that may be needed to install a particular application.
You can congure standard and advanced application policies to be applied automatically when a device is registered with Wyse
Management Suite or when a device is moved to a new group.
Deployment of application policies and operating system images to thin clients can be scheduled immediately or later based on the device
time zone or any other specied time zone.
Inventory of devices—This option can be located by clicking the Devices tab. By default, this option displays a paginated list of all the
devices in the system. You can choose to view a subset of devices by using various lter criteria, such as groups or subgroups, device type,
operating system type, status, subnet, and platform or time zone.
Getting started with Wyse Management Suite
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