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FileWave Overview - Content Pack

Description

FileWave is immensely powerful, but can be overwhelming when it comes to stitching the various components together.  Content packs are meant to give you a leg-up in creating distributable content and are also a great way to learn by example!   Each content pack is meant to be a "whole solution", putting together all of the pieces of FileWave to accomplish a goal.

This FileWave Content Pack doesn't give you distributable content, but does give you some really great reporting and a dashboard built on standard inventory data to show overall system status. The purpose of this pack is provide the information you need to proactively manage your environment and is comprised of all of the contents listed below:

What You Get in this Content Pack

This content pack provides:

Reports (aka Inventory Queries):

Reports are a great way of measuring the effectiveness of distributing content, and can be used for all sorts of compliance purposes as well.  Trust, but verify is what reports are all about.  In this pack we have included the following  reports:

      • Report 1: <insert description AND purpose>

Dashboards:

Dashboards build upon reports and are an incredibly powerful tool for showing aggregated data in charts and graphs.  This pack provides the following dashboard(s):

      • Dashboard 1: A great starter dashboard, built from data fields that devices report right out of the box.

Ingredients

  • FileWave Central Admin & Credentials

  • Base64 API Token
  • Content Pack:

(Only one of the following is needed, based on your admin device's OS platform)

Windows Content PackmacOS Content Pack (ARM based)macOS Content Pack (Intel based)

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Directions

  1. Download the appropriate content pack above  (based on your admin device's platform) and unzip it

  2. Run the main_app tool in the /dist/main folder, using appropriate credentials for your environment (check out our overview article on importing content packs here)
  3. Once completed, verify the new content in your system (and import dashboards, if applicable)

Sample Screenshots

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Notes

Note that you can freely edit any of the content in this content pack.  We do recommend reviewing each of the types of content as provided first though so that you can get a feel for how things "fit together" before modification.

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