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FileWave Network Imaging / IVS Overview
Network Imaging Network imaging is supported over ethernet using the FileWave Imaging Virtual Server (IVS). It uses the PXEboot system for Windows computers. For a complete guide on how to fully set up a FileWave Imaging Virtual Server (IVS): Network Im...
Intelligent downloader explained
Summary This KB article will explain the intelligent downloader and give the best practices to upgrade your self-healed software by benefiting from this feature through Filesets / Payloads. Intelligent Downloader When a Fileset / Payload is deployed and the...
Using PsExec to Test PowerShell 32bit Scripts on Windows with FileWave
What FileWave is a Unified Endpoint Management tool that allows organizations to manage and deploy software and settings to macOS, Windows, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, Chrome, and Android devices. When deploying PowerShell scripts through FileWave, it is important to ...
Filewave Firewall Scripts for Windows
Summary FileWave Installers by default leave Windows Firewall settings untouched. This article provides scripts that opens the Windows Firewall so the Windows processes can accept connections from the outside. For FileWave 15.5 we have baked this in to the ...
Booster Overview
Introduction A Booster in the context of FileWave is a critical component designed to scale the management of devices within a network. It is a server component that can be installed on macOS, Windows, and Linux systems and is used to distribute data from the...
Securing FileWave Server on the Internet for Remote Device Management
What This article provides guidance on securely exposing and managing your FileWave server on the internet for remote device management. When/Why You might need to expose your FileWave server on the internet to manage devices anywhere they might be, includi...
1.1 Accessing the FileWave Dashboard
What Your account will need permission to access the FileWave Dashboard. When/Why There are three permission levels for the dashboard for each admin logon: No Access Read-Only Access Read-Write Access The permissions are defined with the following o...
1.2 Default Dashboard
What Once you access the dashboard, you are going to be presented with a default system dashboard that looks something like this: When/Why This simple dashboard (called FileWave System) is basically the equivalent of the dashboard in the native admin. It...
1.3 FileWave Provided Dashboards
What FileWave provides a number of default dashboards, some of which will be useful to you directly, and others that will be more useful to support staff. When/Why Of course everything that we do with the dashboard is about reporting. There are hundreds of...
1.4 Switching Between Dashboards
What Switching between various dashboards is the first thing you are going to want to do once you login. When/Why Switching between various dashboards allows you to look at different types of data in different ways. I may want to open new browser tabs with...
1.5 Dashboard Panel/Widget Layout
What The dashboard panels are highly customizable and allow you to change the appearance of your dashboard to suit your needs. When/Why Just copying and pasting content into a dashboard is a good first step, but we can tailor the information to be portrayed...
1.6 Exposing an Association to Dashboard (v14+)
What With the new FileWave Dashboard, it is possible to track the status of any deployment graphically. When/Why This will be important to us anytime we have a significant rollout, and especially if we need to communicate the status to others in the organiz...
2.1 Creating Your Own Dashboard
What The beauty of the FileWave dashboard isn't in what we give you...although we definitely give you some great stuff! The beauty of the solution is that you can make it what you want it to be using your own dashboards. When/Why Dashboard elements (or wid...
2.2 Copying Widgets (Panels)
What If we have the power to create our own dashboards, then surely we must be able to add content to them... When/Why We are going to copy a widget (referred to as a panel in Grafana) whenever one already exists and we can leverage it without doing any ext...
2.2.1 Copied Panel is Blank
What In certain circumstances, when you copy/paste a panel into another dashboard, you may find that the new panel is blank. When/Why This will happen most often if the dashboard that you copied from has variables defined that the panel relies upon. For in...
2.3 Widget/Panel Elements
What All panels (or widgets) on the FileWave dashboard are comprised of the same basic elements. This article reviews those elements at a high level. When/Why If you are using pre-existing panels, you won't care too much about how they are built. However,...
2.4 Creating a New Panel (existing data)
What It is possible in the FileWave dashboard to add panels directly from an inventory query (report) with some limitations (no data aggregation). When/Why The data panels are simple enough to add as you'll see below, but the only representation available f...
3.1 Aggregating Data
What Up until now, we have been talking about the capability of the FileWave dashboard to show data. We have looked at pre-built examples, and done a small amount with data from an inventory query. But the real power in the dashboard is the ability to aggre...
3.1.1 Grouping Data Using Prometheus
What In order to do summary reporting, we need to leverage the power of Prometheus. When/Why Anytime we want to do something like report on a rollout or general status, we are going to want to summarize a report. We will accomplish this by using a Promethe...
3.1.2 Testing the Prometheus Scrape
What Assume for a moment you made a typo in the yml file, or some other problem occurs and your new scrape isn't showing in Grafana...how can you see what is going on? When/Why Thankfully there is a service running that allows you to see the status of all P...