FileWave Central / Anywhere
FileWave Central is the native admin application and FileWave Anywhere is the web. You can do many of the same things in both tools.
Installing the FileWave Central application
Depending on deployment plans, the FileWave Admin application can be installed on two different t...
Configuring FileWave Server License
All of the settings that are used to establish the core configuration of FileWave server are perf...
Configuring FileWave Server Basic Preferences
This section covers the basic FileWave preferences of General, Organization Info, Kiosk, Inventor...
FileWave Central Inventory Toolbar
The Inventory toolbar consists of six simple tools plus the Delete item: New Query – Creates...
FileWave Anywhere Overview
The FileWave Anywhere interface is an Inventory tool designed to help with quick FileWave invento...
FWAdmin CLI (Command Line Interface)
Using FileWave Admin CLI (Command Line Interface) for OS X and Windows Admin CLI allowances in...
Working with FileWave Clients
Once the various devices have the FileWave Client installed, and they are enrolled with your File...
Conflict Resolution
Prevent Duplicates During Enrollment
A Desktop device (Client) is identified in FileWave by Client Name and Device Fingerprint. Have a...
Automated Client Conflict Resolution
What There is a capability allowing FileWave itself to resolve conflicting new clients on your b...
Automatic Enrollment Permissions
What There is a administrator permission that either allows or denies the ability to make change...
Manual Client Conflict Resolution (Multiple Devices)
What In large production environments, there may be times during mass enrollments where resolvin...
Understanding FileWave Clients, Groups, and Smart Groups
Client operations The FileWave Client needs to be installed on computers that you want to manage...
Last Connect vs. Last Connected
What OK, we'll cut right to the chase, the naming of these fields is silly and confusing. We'll...
Inventory Queries (Reports)
Creating and Editing a query
This will discuss how to create and edit a query. When you create a new query, you start by g...
Demystifying Inventory Queries
Description Inventory queries are fundamental, both for reporting and Fileset deployment. For b...
What are Sample Queries?
We are frequently asked about the intention of the Sample Queries that you find in the Inventory ...
How do I export the results of an Inventory query?
Problem The results of your inventory query will appear in the admin console, but you need to be...
Generating scheduled reports
Being able to look at the various queries while logged in to the FileWave Admin is one thing. Bei...
FileWave Server Mail test receives Bad Request with Google Accounts
What Setting up the Mail settings within FileWave preferences to send reports is great. However,...
Sending Scheduled Reports to More Than One Address
You may find that when setting up a scheduled report on an inventory query or a license report th...
Filtering in Inventory Queries
What Historically inventory queries in FileWave did not allow you to filter for specific values....
Smart Groups
Smart Groups, Inventory and Application Version Numbers
Description By default, FileWave treats software version numbers as strings. This is because it...
Using Queries to create Smart Groups
Outside of creating queries for informational purposes, FileWave can help you create powerful, dy...
Create a Smart Group from an Inventory Query (Report)
What Smart group creation in FIleWave has always been a duplicated effort if you wanted a smart ...
Duplicating Smart Groups
What Prior to version 14 of FileWave, creation of similar smart groups could be quite tedious. ...
Smart Group Preview
What When creating a smart group based on an inventory query, the number of results in the query...
Filesets
Settings
Configuring and using the Dashboard
In FileWave Central, the Dashboard is the first view an administrator gets of their FileWave envi...
Mobile Preferences - iOS / Android
The Mobile preferences are designed around Mobile Device Management for Apple's iOS/macOS and Goo...
LDAP Preferences
FileWave supports connecting your LDAP network directory – Active Directory, Open Directory, or e...
VPP and DEP Preferences
FileWave supports both Apple's Volume Purchase Program (VPP) and Device Enrollment Program (DEP)....
Managing FileWave Administrators
FileWave supports tiered administration so you can create additional administrators in order to s...
Embracing the Dark Side: Dark Mode for FileWave Central (15.3+)
What Once upon a time, in a brightly lit world of screens, a shadowy figure emerged, promising s...
FileWave Central - Additional Settings Menu Items
In the FileWave Admin application, there are several other settings and menu items that come into...
Configuring Inventory preferences
With version 6 and higher, FileWave integrated Inventory into the main FileWave server. With vers...
FileWave Anywhere persistent user preferences (14.8+)
What As a user of FileWave Anywhere, I frequently have to resize columns when I’m using it. Whe...
License Reporting
Manual Licenses
The first method for managing software licenses is to manually create the query to search invento...
Font Licenses
Many institutions or departments have purchased commercial fonts for use in their design, graphic...
Creating Licenses from Filesets
Since the FileWave Client can deep scan your Client systems, it can find any file that meets the ...
Troubleshooting
Adjusting the Idle Timeout in FileWave Anywhere (WebAdmin)
What This article will guide you on how to change the idle timeout setting in FileWave Anywhere ...
Could not create the /Volumes/XYZ directory error when opening client info
Problem Error when opening client info for a client machine that it "Could not create the direct...
Dashboard Warning levels and Descriptions
Problem The table below provides an overview of the information that is returned by the Dashboar...
Having DB folder on a different Volume(symlink) slows the admin performance
Issue : If you have a symlink to /fwxserver folder (Data Folder and DB folder are on network volu...
Opening FileWave Central (Admin) in a Specific Language (macOS)
What When you install FileWave Admin, it will automatically use the language you have set on you...
Opening FileWave Central (Admin) in a Specific Language (Windows)
What When you install FileWave Admin, it will automatically use the language you have set on you...
What is the difference between Revert and Restore?
Problem Let's figure out the difference between revert and restore and when we need to use them....