Administrator Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell Wyse Management Suite Version 1.2 Administrator’s Guide
- Introduction to Wyse Management Suite
- Getting started with Wyse Management Suite
- Wyse Management Suite dashboard
- Managing groups and configurations
- Adding a group
- Editing a group
- Removing a group
- Editing an unmanaged group
- Configuring global level policy
- Configuring group level policy
- Configuring device level policy
- Editing ThinOS policy settings
- ThinOS—Wizard mode
- ThinOS—Advanced mode
- Configuring general settings—ThinOS 8.5 and later versions
- Configuring general settings—ThinOS
- Configuring security settings—ThinOS
- Configuring keyboard settings—ThinOS 8.5 and later versions
- Configuring display settings— ThinOS
- Configuring visual experience settings—ThinOS
- Schedule shutdown or reboot settings—ThinOS 8.5 and later versions
- Configuring device information
- Configuring BIOS settings—ThinOS
- Configuring firmware upgrade
- Configuring global INI settings—ThinOS 8.5 and later versions
- Configuring central configuration settings—ThinOS
- Configuring advanced settings—ThinOS
- Configuring remote connections—ThinOS
- Configuring global session settings—ThinOS 8.5 and later versions
- Configuring USB redirection settings—ThinOS 8.5 and later versions
- Configuring third party authentication settings—ThinOS 8.5 and later versions
- Configuring citrix broker connection settings—ThinOS 8.5 and later versions
- Configuring citrix HDX connection settings—ThinOS 8.5 and later versions
- Configuring VMware broker connection settings—ThinOS 8.5 and later versions
- Configuring VMware PCoIP connections—ThinOS 8.5 and later versions
- Configuring Microsoft broker connection settings—ThinOS 8.5 and later versions
- Configuring Microsoft RDP connection settings—ThinOS 8.5 and later versions
- Configuring vWorksapce broker connection settings—ThinOS 8.5 and later versions
- Configuring AWS broker connection settings—ThinOS 8.5 and later versions
- Configuring direct RDP connection settings—ThinOS 8.5 and later versions
- Configuring direct ICA connection settings—ThinOS 8.5 and later versions
- Configuring global printer settings—ThinOS 8.5 and later versions
- Configuring printer settings—ThinOS 8.5 and later versions
- Configuring WLAN global settings—ThinOS 8.5 and later versions
- Configuring WLAN connections—ThinOS 8.5 and later versions
- Editing Windows Embedded Standard policy settings
- Configuring system personalization
- Configuring desktop experience
- Configuring network settings
- Configuring security and lockdown settings
- Configuring other settings
- Configuring remote connection settings—Citrix
- Configuring remote connection settings—VMware
- Configuring remote connection settings—RDP
- Configuring remote connection settings—Browser
- Configuring Latitude mobile thin client BIOS settings
- Configuring Wyse 7040 thin client BIOS settings
- Configuring device information
- Configuring Wyse Easy Setup settings
- Configuring VNC settings
- Configuring domain settings
- Configuring BIOS settings for Wyse 5070 thin client with Windows 10 IoT Enterprise
- Editing Linux policy settings
- Configuring system personalization
- Configuring desktop experience
- Configuring login experience settings
- Configuring network settings
- Configuring security settings
- Configuring central configuration settings
- Configuring other settings
- Configuring VDI global settings
- Configuring remote connection settings—Citrix
- Configuring remote connection settings—VMware
- Configuring remote connection settings—RDP
- Configuring remote connection settings—Browser
- Configuring advanced settings
- Editing ThinLinux policy settings
- Configuring system personalization
- Configuring desktop experience
- Configuring login experience
- Configuring network settings
- Configuring security settings
- Configuring central configuration settings
- Configuring other settings
- Configuring VDI global settings
- Configuring remote connection settings—Citrix
- Configuring remote connection settings—VMware
- Configuring remote connection settings—RDP
- Configuring remote connection settings—Browser
- Configuring advanced settings
- Configuring device information
- Configuring Wyse 3040 thin client BIOS settings
- Configuring BIOS settings for Wyse 5070 thin client with ThinLinux
- Editing Wyse Software Thin Client policy settings
- Configuring system personalization
- Configuring desktop experience
- Configuring network settings
- Configuring security and lockdown settings
- Configuring other settings
- Configuring remote connection settings—Citrix
- Configuring remote connection settings—VMware
- Configuring remote connection settings—RDP
- Configuring remote connection settings—Browser
- Configuring device information
- Configuring VNC settings
- Configuring domain settings
- Managing devices
- Methods to register devices to Wyse Management Suite
- Searching a device using filters
- Saving the current filter
- Querying the device status
- Locking the devices
- Restarting the devices
- Unregistering the devices
- Resetting to factory default settings
- Changing a group assignment
- Sending messages to devices
- Activating the devices
- Viewing device details
- Managing device summary
- Viewing system information
- Viewing device events
- Viewing installed applications
- Renaming thin client
- Configuring remote shadow connection
- Tagging devices
- Device compliance status
- Pulling Windows Embedded Standard or ThinLinux image
- Requesting a log file
- Troubleshooting your device
- Apps and data
- Configuring app inventory
- Deploying applications to thin clients
- Creating and deploying standard application policy to thin clients
- Creating and deploying advanced application policy to thin clients
- Adding Windows Embedded Standard operating system and ThinLinux images to inventory
- Managing ThinOS firmware inventory
- Managing Windows Embedded Standard and ThinLinux image policies
- Managing file repository
- Changing wallpaper for all devices belonging to marketing group
- Managing rules
- Managing Jobs
- Managing Events
- Managing users
- Portal administration
- Adding the Active Directory server information
- Alert classifications
- Creating an Application Programming Interface-API accounts
- Accessing file repository
- Configuring other settings
- Enabling Two-Factor authentication
- Generating reports
- Enabling multi-tenant accounts
- Enabling custom branding
- Managing license subscription
- Managing system setup
- Configuring Wyse Easy Setup by using Wyse Management Suite
- Configuring Wyse Converter for PCs by using Wyse Management Suite
- Registering Wyse Software thin client to Wyse Management Suite
- Registering Windows Embedded Standard thin clients to Wyse Management Suite by using Wyse Device Agent
- Registering devices by using DHCP option tags to Wyse Management Suite
- Registering Wyse Software thin clients by using DNS SRV record to Wyse Management Suite
- Configuring the Wyse Software thin client by using Wyse Management Suite
- Troubleshooting Wyse Management Suite
- Installing or upgrading Wyse Device Agent
- Wyse Management Suite feature matrix
- Wireless profiles password editor
- Create and configure DHCP option tags
- Create and configure DNS SRV records
Registering devices by using DHCP option tags
About this task
You can register the devices by using the following DHCP option tags:
NOTE:
For detailed instructions on how to add DHCP option tags on the Windows server, see Creating and configuring DHCP
option tags.
Table 253. Registering device by using DHCP option tags
Option Tag Description
Name—WMS
Data Type—String
Code—165
Description—WMS Server FQDN
This tag points to the Wyse Management Suite server URL. For example,
wmsserver.acme.com:443, where wmsserver.acme.com is fully qualified
domain name of the server where Wyse Management Suite is installed. For
links to register your devices in Wyse Management Suite in public cloud, see
Getting started with Wyse Management Suite on public cloud.
NOTE: Do not use https:// in the server URL, or the thin client will not
register under Wyse Management Suite.
Name—MQTT
Data Type—String
Code—166
Description—MQTT Server
This tag directs the device to the Wyse Management Suite Push Notification
server (PNS). For a private cloud installation, the device gets directed to
the MQTT service on the Wyse Management Suite server. For example,
wmsservername.domain.com:1883.
To register your devices in Wyse Management Suite public cloud, the device
should point to the PNS (MQTT) servers in public cloud. For example,
US1:us1-pns.wysemanagementsuite.com
EU1:eu1-pns.wysemanagementsuite.com
Name—CA Validation
Data Type—String
Code—167
Description—Certificate Authority
Validation
This tag is required if Wyse Management Suite is installed on your system
in your private cloud. Do not add this option tag if you are registering your
devices with Wyse Management Suite on public cloud.
Enter True, if you have imported the SSL certificates from a well-known
authority for https communication between the client and Wyse Management
Suite server.
Enter False , if you have not imported the SSL certificates from a well-known
authority for https communication between the client and Wyse Management
Suite server.
Name—GroupToken
Data Type—String
Code—199
Description—Group Token
This tag is required to register the ThinOS devices with Wyse Management
Suite on public or private cloud.
This tag is optional to register the Windows Embedded Standard or ThinLinux
devices with Wyse Management Suite on private cloud. If the tag is not
available, then the devices are automatically registered to the unmanaged
group during on-premise installation.
Registering devices by using DNS SRV record
DNS based device registration is supported with the following versions of Wyse Device Agent:
● Windows Embedded Systems—13.0 or later versions
● Thin Linux—2.0.24 or later versions
● ThinOS—8.4 firmware or later versions
You can register devices with the Wyse Management Suite server if DNS SRV record fields are set with valid values.
Managing devices
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