Dell Edge Device Manager Version R15 Administrator’s Guide

• New, Simple and powerful private cloud installer to install all the required components to run Edge Device Manager within 5 minutes.
• Edge Device Manager Installer can be installed on Windows 2012 R2 standard and Windows 2016 Standard servers.
• Private cloud installer deploys all the components required to support the Edge Device Manager functionality. Following Windows services are installed after successful installation of product:
  • Wyse Management Suite: Tomcat Service – Application Server that hosts Edge Device Manager application.
  • Wyse Management Suite: MariaDB – Relational Database for structured data and normalization.
  • Wyse Management Suite: MongoDB – No-SQL Database for performance and scalability.
  • Wyse Management Suite: Memcached – An application to launch the server faster.
  • Wyse Management Suite: Mosquitto – Used for push notifications to devices.
• Installer will configure the local repository to store application at the chosen path.

Getting started wizard allows you to select Licensing model and optionally configure Edge Device Manager to enable email alerts and import certificate for secure communications.

• Added support for Edge gateway 3001/3002/3003 with Windows 10 2016 LTSB.
• All the existing Windows Edge gateway functionalities will be supported for these new platforms as well.
• The latest agent version must be used for full EDM support.

• Added support for Edge gateway 3001/3002/3003 with Ubuntu core 16.04 (Snappy).
• All the existing snappy Edge gateway functionalities will be supported for these new platforms as well.
• Applications will be fetched from the new app store.
• The latest agent version must be used for full EDM support.

Edge Device Manager Mobile app available for Android and iOS devices allows administrator to manage and monitor devices from anywhere in real-time.

• Administrator can configure Edge Device Manager to receive critical, warning and, informational Alerts through Mobile App and/or Email.
• Admin can set the alert classification for each available alert from the Edge Device Manager console.

The administrator can create rules to automatically create groups or assign devices to existing groups, based on device attributes such as subnet, time zone, location, and custom values.

• Wyse Management Suite Repository is a new component to store, manage and deploy application and OS images to your thin clients.
• Wyse Management Suite Repository replaces legacy on-premise gateway.
  • In addition to new features, it is recommended that you replace legacy on premise gateway with Wyse Management Suite Repository for significant performance gains for existing features.
  • Please note that you cannot upgrade legacy on-premise gateway to new Wyse Management Suite Repository.
• Supported on Windows 2012 R2 and Windows 2016 standard server.

Ability to view data based on predefined filters and the ability to export predefined canned report. Reports for following information is available:

• Active App policies
• All App policies
• Unmanaged devices
• Online devices
• Offline devices
• All devices
• Audit Logs
• Current Alerts
• Alert History
• Group Policies
• Application Policies
• Remote Connections
• Remote Commands

Edge Device Manager supports import of Admin User names from Active Directory, to enable authentication through Active Directory.

Following Server configurations can be done from the setup page:

• Enabling the CA validation
• Updating the SMTP details
• Updating the Domain/Well known certificate Authority details.(.pem and .pfx certificates can be uploaded)
• License can be imported from the Public cloud server.

• Admin can filter devices by the online/offline status from the Device page.
• Admin can view the online/offline status from the device details page.
• Admin can export the online/offline status as part of the device export functionality.

• Filtering based on Subnet, OS Type and Platform is added on the device page.
• Filtering based on Device Types, Status and Detail status is added on the Jobs page.

• Edge Device Manager supports switching between English and Canadian French.

Simplified registration is supported on Edge gateway and Embedded PCs.

• For public cloud, register your devices by providing Edge Device Manager URL and group token. You do not have to supply MQTT server URL.
• For private cloud, register your devices by providing Edge Device Manager URL and optionally a group token. Group token is an optional parameter in a single tenant private cloud server and the devices are registered to the unmanaged groups if the group token is not provided.

Auto discover Edge Device Manager server using the DNS SRV record with following info:

• Edge Device Manager Server URL
  • DNS Record Type : DNS SRV
  • Record Name : _WMS_MGMT._tcp.<Domain>
  • Example : Edge Device Manager-betaserver.Dell.com
• Group Token
  • DNS Record Type : DNS Text
  • Record Name : _WMS_GROUPTOKEN.<Domain>
  • Example : defa-defadefa
• CA Validation
  • DNS Record Type : DNS Text
  • Record Name : _WMS_CAVALIDATION.<Domain>
  • Example : True