IGEL UMS
October 2011
Universal Management
Suite
Florian Spatz
Product Marketing Manager
Agenda
► Overview
► Update
Process
► Additional Tools
OVERVIEW
Overview
Category
Remote management solution
General Features
Full remote administration of your IGEL infrastructure
Central installation, configuration
and update management including
Buddy Update
OS independent UMS console
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Security
Secured communication
– With SSL protection
– With Local certificates on the client side
– Even through firewalls due to the usage of HTTPS
Full and reliable backup functionality
Failover mode enables high reliability of the UMS
User authentication and rights management
Access control on directories, profiles and thin clients for
administrators and groups of administrators
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Automated Deployment and Roll-out
Import and configure new thin clients before roll-out through MAC
addresses
Multiple clients can be imported with CSV-Files
CSV-Files can be generated automatically and provided with delivery
CSV-Files can contain additional information like serial number for
asset management
MAC address
CSV File
Serial number
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Asset Management
Hardware inventory
Software inventory
– Licensed features
– Installed Hotfixes (WES)
Export Asset information via
Views
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UPDATE
PROCESS
Failsafe upgrade mechanism - Overview
IGEL Firmware
(Linux, Microsoft Windows
Embedded Standard)
IGEL Failsafe Update System
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Failsafe upgrade mechanism – Functional Demo
IGEL Firmware booted
Transfer of new Firmware
Update initiated
Reboot
Updated IGEL Firmware
booted
Update successful
Reboot
IGEL Failsafe Update
System booted
Update failed
Reboot
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IGEL Failsafe Update Mechanism - Benefits
IGEL Update system is always healthy
Linux - except of hardware failures
Windows Embedded Standard
– except of hardware and file system failures
Even loss of power during update process will
not harm the system
No need to send the device to IGEL because of failed firmware
updates
Stay up-to-date without the risk of damaging a running system!
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Incremental Firmware Update
UD Firmware
update
UD2-130 LX
UD Firmware Image on
FTP / HTTP file server
ICA
Contains
complete
UD firmware
image
Download
Entry Level:
- ICA
- RDP
-…
Standard Level:
- VMware View
- Appliance Modes
- Ericom PowerTerm
Terminal Emulation
-…
Advanced Level:
- ThinLinc
- NoMachine NX
-…
Update initiated
from
- ICA
- RDP
- network
- printing
- UMS agent
-…
UD5-430 LX
or via
ICA, Appliance Modes,
Ericom PowerTerm
Terminal Emulation
- ICA
- RDP
- network
- printing
- UMS agent
- VMware View
- Appliance Modes
- Ericom PowerTerm
Terminal Emulation
-…
myigel.com
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Buddy Update
Update only a single client in the branch office via the internet
connection in order to reduce bandwidth consumption
Updated client serves as image source (FTP update server) via LAN
for all other branch office Thin Clients
Headquarter – Data center
Branch Office LAN
WAN
FTP Update Server
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Updated
Client
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Partial Update
Install or update applications on
Windows Embedded Standard Thin Clients
Update package contains only new or modified files
No complete snapshot needed
Very low network bandwidth usage
Faster update/customization of the clients
Reduced administration time and effort
Increased flexibility through combinations of different update
packages
Less complexity through reduced amount of snapshots
Higher availability and productivity
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Upgrade License deployment
Upgrade license deployment
UDC Token +
Upgrade licence
+
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ADDITIONAL
TOOLS
Support Wizard
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Automatic collection of log files from UMS server, UMS console and
thin clients if necessary
Log package can be sent via Email to our support team
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Firmware Downloader
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Tool for downloading firmware updates from the IGEL webserver
Management of downloaded updates within the UMS
Management of multiple
firmware version,
also previous versions
Automatically offers
available firmware updates
depending on the
registered clients
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Thank you
Questions?