Universal Management Suite (UMS)

Profile Introduction The Universal Management Suite (UMS) is an easy-to-use yet IGEL Universal Management Suite 3 sets the benchmark for the extremely powerful that allows you to remotely manage management of modern thin clients. It has a host of features your IGEL thin clients so that support costs are kept to a mini- that ensures extremely easy, fast, and secure management of mum. It is extremely open and network friendly so that it can fi t large groups of thin clients with lots of local protocol clients and into your organization’s existing infrastructure. software tools spread over large WANs. Supporting a variety of operating systems, databases and directory services like Micro- Typical uses soft® Active Directory, the Universal Management Suite is easy a Automatically setting up thin clients with the right profi le to integrate into every environment. A complete and complimen- when they fi rst attach to the network tary version of the IGEL Universal Management Suite is bundled a Changing the settings of the device or its local with every IGEL product. When combined with the outstanding protocols and software tools IGEL hardware, you have the most advanced solution a Re-imaging devices mid-life when new fi rmware becomes on the market today. available, diagnostics and support The advantages of the IGEL Universal Management Suite

Economical and user-friendly Open architecture a Fast installation a Support for numerous operating systems This is carried out with the help of an installation wizard and The UMS can be run on all known versions of Win- takes just 20 minutes. dows ServerTM and . a Easy to administer a Access is independent of the Most hardware and software settings can be made with just The configuration console operates on the basis of Java and a few clicks of the mouse. enables the system to be administered from any device with a Uniform3 user interface the Java Runtime Environment. The user interface for UMS is the same as for the local thin client configuration. The additional remote management Secure and robust functions give the administrator complete control in the fami- a Encrypted communication liar, proven environment. Certificate-based SSL-encrypted communication between a No scripting remote management servers and clients to protect the sys- Although scripting is supported, you will only need it for con- tem against unauthorized reconfiguration of the equipment. trolling the thin client configuration in the most exceptional a Failsafe upgrade function circumstances. If the thin client machine fails (e.g. power outage or loss of the a Asset management network connection) while the update is in progress it will still Automatic capture of all your hardware information, licensed remain useable. The update process will be completed the features and installed hotfixes. next time the machine is rebooted. a Comment fields For various information such as location, installation date and inventory number.

from left: IGEL Universal Management Suite – typical screen

An example of a user configurable View

Profile management Network-friendly Scalable and efficient a Based on standard communications protocol a Support for extensive environments There is no need to reconfigure the routers and firewalls be- The IGEL UMS can be scaled to accommodate several cause they use HTTP and FTP. thousand thin clients. a Buddy update a Group and profile-based administration IGEL LX thin clients that have already been updated can be The thin clients within a given organizational unit can be ad- used as update servers for other thin clients (e.g., in branch ministered very easily by means of profiles (e.g., if an em- offices). ployee moves to another department, the administrator can a Partial update change their settings with a simple drag-and-drop). New updates or applications can be implemented on stan- a Trouble-free rollout dard thin clients with Microsoft® Windows® Embedded Stan- IGEL thin clients can be automatically assigned to a group on dard by means of partial update packages. This means that the basis of either the relevant subnetwork or a list of MAC there is no need to transmit the entire image over the net- addresses made available by IGEL. work. a Comprehensive support for all configurations Most IGEL thin client settings, such as device or session con- figurations, can be processed via the mouse-enabled UMS user interface. a Transfer of administrative rights Large organizations can authorize a number of system admi- nistrators for different control and authorization areas. a Task planning Maintenance tasks can be scheduled at night so that day-to- day operations are not disrupted. a VNC shadowing Members of the IT support team have remote access to thin client screens to enable them to rapidly identify problems and demonstrate solutions directly to users.

from above: This shows the thin clients current properties as well as Profiles assigned to it

A demonstration of ‘Shadowing’

Re-occurring scheduled jobs can be configured to not execute on certain dates, e.g. public holidays Specifications of the IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS)

Supported platforms UMS Server Server 2003/2008 R2 Ubuntu 8.04 and 10.04 (32 bit), Redhat 6 (32 bit) UMS Console Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7 Ubuntu 8.04 and 10.04 (32 bit), Redhat 6 (32 bit) Databases Oracle 10g/11g Microsoft SQL Server 2008 PostgreSQL Version 8.2 and above Apache Derby 10

Security features SSL communication User / password authentication Active Directory groups can be used for access rights management Local client certifi cates Full and reliable backup functionality Failover mode

Supported languages English German French Dutch Chinese (Simplifi ed, Traditional)

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