Administrator Guide

● System Information—Click the Sys Info button to open the System Information dialog box. You can view the thin client
system information such as System Version, IP Address, information on devices connected to your thin client, event logs and
so on.
● Admin Mode—Click the Admin Mode button to configure various settings locally on the thin client other than broker
desktop configurations. For example, you can choose to manually configure the Citrix XenBroker Server URL or override
the URL that is centrally defined by file servers by using the Remote Connections dialog box as described in Remote
Connections.
○ Classic desktop—Use the Leave Administrator Mode option in the Shutdown dialog box.
○ Zero desktop—Use the Leave Administrator Mode option in the Shutdown dialog box, or use the Leave
Administrator Mode icon (X) in the upper-right pane of the System Settings menu.
NOTE: By default the Admin Mode button is not displayed on the log on dialog box. You can display it by selecting the
Show local admin button check box in the Shutdown dialog box.
NOTE: By default there is no password needed for the Admin Mode button use. You can password protect the Admin
Mode button (to require login credentials) by using the AdminMode parameter in a wnos.ini file, see Dell Wyse
ThinOS INI Guide.
● Shutdown—Click the Shutdown button to open and use the Shutdown dialog box to sign off, shut down, restart, reset
the system setting to factory defaults, and so on.
● Account Self-Service—Click the Account Self-Service icon shown when configured using the
AccountSelfServiceoption of the PasswordServer INI parameter to open and use the Account Self-Service dialog
box to change or reset your own password and unlock your account. For information on INI parameter, see Dell Wyse ThinOS
INI Guide.
This process assumes that the security questions and answers have been pre-registered by the user inside their Windows
environment. Users must use HTTPS (not HTTP) for an account self-service server address such as Https://IPAddress, in the
Broker Setup tab. After the security questions are answered, your new password will be set or your account will be unlocked.
Word wrap feature
The word wrap feature enables you to fit large text inside the available display area of the active window.
To enable the word wrap feature, use the INI parameter wordwrap.
For example, noticefile=dell_notice resizable=no wordwrap=yes.
The default value is no. When you change the value to yes, the text is confined to the display area and the horizontal scroll bar
is disabled.
Accessing system information
Use the System Information dialog box to view system information.
● Classic desktop—Click System Information from the desktop menu.
● Zero desktop—Click the System Information icon on the zero toolbar.
The System Information dialog box includes:
● General tab—Displays general information such as System Version, Serial Number, Memory Size (Total and Free), CPU
Speed, ROM Size, Monitor, Parallel ports, Terminal Name, Boot from, Memory speed, SSD size, Resolution, and the Serial
ports.
● Copyright tab—Displays the software copyright and patent notices.
Acknowledgments button is added in the Copyright tab in System Information. This button is related to third party
software.
● Event Log tab—Displays the thin client start-up steps normally beginning from system version to checking firmware or
error messages that are helpful for debugging problems. The details about the monitors and USB connected to the thin
client, and bluetooth initialization are also displayed.
When you install packages or restart the ThinOS device, the ThinOS client verifies the version of the installed package. If you
have not installed the latest package version, the details about the current package version and the recommended package
version are displayed.
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