Deployment Guide

Add a ThinOS 8.6 device to a group in Wyse
Management Suite
This section is recommended for ThinOS 8.6 users transitioning from file server configuration and imaging to Wyse Management
Suite. ThinOS 9.1 does not support FTP and WDM. The file storage and device management features are replaced by Wyse
Management Suite.
About this task
Adding a ThinOS 8.6 device to a group in Wyse Management Suite allows you to maintain your current INI file based
configuration and file server imaging while placing their ThinOS 8.6 clients under Wyse Management Suite. The process can
be accomplished as follows:
Steps
1. On the Wyse Management Suite console, go to Groups & Configs, create a device policy group for each file server or Wyse
Device Management dynamic device policy (DDC) group. Ensure that you define a unique group token value for group.
2. For each Wyse Management Suite device policy group, select Edit Policies and select ThinOS to define policies for the
ThinOS 8.6 client group. If prompted for the Wyse Management Suite configuration mode, select Advanced Configuration.
3. From the Wyse Management Suite Advanced Device Configuration option, select Central Configuration and define the
file server or path, user account, and password values for your current ThinOS 8.6 file server. Click Save & Publish and
repeat the same step for each file server or Wyse Device Management DDC group. Ensure that the protocol is defined as
part of your file server or path entry, or ThinOS 8.6 assumes the protocol as FTP.
4. Replace all environmentally or locally defined client file server and Wyse Device Management information with Wyse
Management Suite, MQTT Server and Group Token information. For information about how to configure Wyse Management
Suite using DHCP Options, DNS Records, or manually from the ThinOS client configuration menu, see the following sections:
● Wyse Management Suite Environment Automation (DHCP or DNS)—see Register ThinOS devices by using DHCP option
tags and Configuring devices by using DNS SRV record.
● Wyse Management Suite Manual Configuration (ThinOS UI)—see Register ThinOS devices using Wyse Device Agent.
5. Restart the thin client.
The thin client performs the following tasks automatically after reboot:
● Discovers a Wyse Management Suite server and completes check-in based on the Group Token information. This process
includes receiving file server configuration information from the Wyse Management Suite group that is assigned to the
ThinOS 8.6 client.
● Checks the file server, retrieve, and apply configuration data from the wnos.ini (and supporting files), and completes any
required image updates from the images on the file server.
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