Administrator Guide

Functional areas of management console
The Wyse Management Suite console is organized into the following functional areas:
• The Dashboard page provides information about the current status on each functional area of the system.
• The Groups & Congs page employs a hierarchical group policy management for device conguration. 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 function, 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-specic congurations.
• 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 hierarchy, for
example marketing, sales, and engineering, or based on the location hierarchy, for example, country, state, and city.
NOTE
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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.
For example,
– Congure the policies for default policy group (parent group). After conguring the policies, check the custom group (child group)
policies. Same set of policies are applied to child group as well. Conguration in Default Policy Group settings are the global set of
parameters that all groups and subgroups inherit from parent group.
– Congure dierent settings for the custom group. The custom group receives both the payloads, but devices in the Default policy
Group does not receive the payload congured for custom policy group.
– Congure dierent settings for the custom group. 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.
Getting started with Wyse Management Suite
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