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Device Group Management

All group management operation - add group, update group, delete group, and move devices to group; affects the devices belonging to the group or being moved to the group and these configuration changes may cause configuration changes on devices and may require and cause device reboot.

Impact of Group Management on Devices

Let us try to understand the above things by example:

  • Administrator adds a new group, with following configurations

    1. USB Redirection Driver now set to None

    2. Added 5 devices

    Impact: As by default devices belong to group 'Default Group' with USB Redirection Driver as Inherit (= Built-In) and now this device is being move to new group with USB Redirection Driver as None, it will be rebooted and then will take effect of USB Redirection Driver settings.

  • Administrator updates an existing group, with following configurations:

    1. Login settings changed from Inherit to Enable -- Windows Login

    2. Group consists of 2 devices

    Impact: All 2 devices will be rebooted and will start using automatic login settings as Windows Login

  • Administrator deletes a group, which has following configurations:

    1. Login Settings as Enabled -- Windows Login

    2. USB Redirection Driver as -- None

    3. Advanced Settings as Set Manually with both Remote Shell and Remote Control enabled

    4. Group has 3 devices

    Impact: Whenever a group is deleted, all devices belong to the group will be moved to default group and thus there will following configuration changes, which will require and cause device reboot:

    1. Previous Login Settings Enabled -- New Login Settings Inherit from Default (=Disabled)

    2. Previous USB Redirection Driver Settings None, new USB Redirection Driver Settings Inherit = Built-In

    3. Previous Advanced -- Remote Session setting enabled, and new Remote Session settings disabled

    Now due to the configuration changes of point (a) and (b), devices will require and cause reboot whereas configuration changes of point c will cause all remote shell and VNC session on devices to be disconnected.

    Now we understand how group management operations can affect device configurations, let us learn how to perform group management operations in below section.

Create a New Group

  1. In HyWorks Controller Management Console, go to Monitoring > Endpoints

  2. Click Group Management and click Add

  3. Modify the settings as per your requirements

    1. Configurations

      1. Group Name and Description

      2. Volume: Inherit or Set Manually

      3. USB Redirection Driver: Inherit or Set Manually as None, Built-In or Enhanced

      4. Default Language: As per requirement

      5. Connection Profiles : As per requirement

    2. Login: Inherit, Disable or Enable with Set Credentials, Ask Credentials at first logon or Windows Login

    3. UI Controls: Show, Hide or Password Protect UI Controls

    4. Desktop Mode & Protocol: As Inherit, Desktop Mode as a Desktop or KIOSK and Display Protocol as a Display Protocol v7/v8/v10 etc.

    5. Upgrade Settings: Inherit, Enable or Disable

    6. Power Saving mode : Inherit, Set Manually

    7. Advanced Settings: Inherit, Users Settings or Set Manually

    8. Devices: Add devices to group

    9. Custom Links : Inherit, Set Manually

  4. If you want to add more groups, select Add more groups before saving the group

  5. Click Save and confirm

New group will be created. Devices that are moved to this new group will be configured as per new group settings, the new configurations may reboot devices as explained in section Impact of Group Management Operations

Update Group

  1. In HyWorks Controller Management Console, go to Monitoring > Endpoints

  2. Click Group Management and click Edit against group whose configurations you want to edit

  3. In Update Group dialog, modify the configurations as per your requirement

  4. Administrator can select checkbox Update more groups before saving the group if willing to update more groups

  5. Click Update and confirm

Devices belonging to this group will be reconfigured andit may reboot device reboot as explained in section Impact of Group Management Operations

Delete Group

Default Group cannot be deleted.

Follow the below steps to delete device group:

  1. In HyWorks Controller Management Console, go to Monitoring > Endpoints

  2. Click Group Management

  3. In Group Management dialog, click Delete against the group you want to delete and confirm

Group will be deleted. Devices belonging to deleted group will be moved to default group and will start using default group settings and may require and cause device reboot for new configurations to take effect.