Install Guide
Installing Wyse Device Manager
WDM consists of the following components:
• Database
• Management Server
• Software Repository
• Other Services
• Web UI
You can install all the components on the same system or you can have a distributed setup where each component is installed on dierent
systems.
WDM is available in the following editions:
• Enterprise Edition—This edition needs a specic license key and comes packaged with all the features of WDM. You can manage a
very large number of thin client devices using this edition. You can install this edition in a distributed environment and can install every
component on dierent systems.
• Workgroup Edition—This edition consists of a free license key and certain features of WDM are disabled. You can manage upto 10,000
thin client devices using this edition. You must install all the components in the same system and you cannot have a distributed setup
with this edition.
NOTE
: Workgroup license needs to be activated.
NOTE:
• To run the WDM Installer (Setup.exe), you must log in to the system as an administrator.
• You cannot install WDM on servers running other services such as the DNS, DHCP, AD Domain Services or services that conict
with the WDM functionality and resources.
• When you are installing the WDM database in a standalone or a distributed setup, and want to use an existing SQL database,
ensure that it is a full version of SQL Server and not SQL Server Express.
• The Dell Community Forums support the WDM workgroup edition.
• Threadx 5x management component is supported only in enterprise edition.
Topics:
• Installing the WDM Workgroup edition
• Installing the WDM Enterprise edition
• Installing WDM on a cloud environment
• Installing WDM in a Distributed Setup
• Upgrading WDM
Installing the WDM Workgroup edition
Steps
1 Extract the contents of the WDM installer on the system where you want to install WDM.
2 Navigate to the folder where you have extracted the installer, and run Setup.exe.
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