Administrator Guide

Table Of Contents
Firmware upgrade
You can use Wyse Management Suite to upgrade your firmware.
Topics:
Upgrading ThinLinux 1.x to 2.1 and later versions
Upgrading ThinOS 8.x to 9.0
Upgrading ThinLinux 1.x to 2.1 and later versions
If you want to pull a customized image from TL 2.x before you upgrade, you must prepare the ThinLinux 2,x and then upgrade
the ThinLinux 1.x image.
Prepare the ThinLinux 2.x image
Prerequisites
Use Wyse Management Suite version 1.4 or later versions to upgrade the ThinLinux build version 2.0.19 or 2.1 to 2.2.
Steps
1. Go to www.dell.com/support.
2. Click Product Support, enter the Service Tag of your thin client, and then press Enter.
NOTE: If you do not have Service Tag, manually browse for your thin client model.
3. Click Drivers and downloads.
4. From the Operating system drop-down list, select ThinLinux.
5. Download the merlin_nonpxe-4.0.1-0 0.04.amd64.deb and wda_3.4.6-05_amd64.tar add-on.
6. Copy the downloaded add-on to <drive C>/wms/localrepo/repository/thinClientsApps/.
7. On the thin client running ThinLinux 2.x, go to Settings > Management > Wyse Device Agent.
8. Register the device to the Wyse Management Suite server.
9. Close the Settings window.
NOTE: If the Settings window is not closed, the Profile Locked error is displayed after you deploy the image.
10. Log in to the Wyse Management Suite console.
11. Create and deploy app policy for merlin_nonpxe-4.0.1-0 0.04.amd64.deb and wda_3.4.6-05_amd64.tar add-
ons.
12. Reboot the thin client.
13. Log in to the Wyse Management Suite server.
14. Go to the Device page and ensure that the Merlin and WDA versions are updated.
15. Click the registered device, and go to More Actions > Pull OS Image.
The Pull OS Image window is displayed.
16. Enter the name of the image.
17. From the File repository drop-down list, select the file repository.
18. Select the type of pull operation that you want to perform.
DefaultSelect the OS+Recovery check box and pull the image (Compressed/UnCompressed).
AdvancedSelect the template Compress_OS_Recovery_Commandsxml/
uncompress_OS_Recovery_CommandsXml and pull the image.
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