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Script Best Practices
Description Tips and tricks for running Filesets with scripts Don't put passwords in scripts The scripts are stored locally on devices. For security reasons, usernames and passwords should not be included within the body of scripts. For example: Example:...
Referencing Launch Arguments in Scripts
Description Scripts ran through FileWave have the option to supply 'Launch Arguments'. These are referenced from the script but are not included in the body of the script. They may be supplied to any of the following: Fileset Scripts Custom Fields Poli...
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 ...
What is an API?
What Application Programming Interface (API). APIs programmatically provide the reading or writing of information to one or more services. FileWave has a rich set of APIs to allow customers to build connections. Some vendors also produce integrations, utili...
Command Line API (v1)
Command Line RESTful API It is probably easiest to consider this API as an interaction with Inventory Queries, allowing for example: Ad-hoc queries to be run to return results New Inventory Queries to be created The returning of Current Query results De...
FileWave Anywhere API (v2)
What Hopefully it is now clear that FileWave Anywhere (formerly called WebAdmin) functions by making API calls to the FileWave server; meaning these same API calls can be used in scripts or by other 3rd party tools. When/Why Perhaps to make automated API ca...
How to write to a custom field using the FileWave API
It is often desirable to alter FileWave Custom Field values, especially when it comes to driving automated workflows. API calls have the distinct advantage of changing Custom Field values directly on the server, essentially making the change immediate. Where...
Returning Device Information as a JSON
What The Client Info > Device Details of a particular client, contains a wealth of information that may be useful to repurpose in other systems (Help Desks, centralised inventory systems, etc). Using the FileWave API, this information could be pulled by alter...
Using the Command Line API to limit, sort, and offset values returned
Problem When utilizing FileWave's Command Line API to extract inventory information, you may find the need to limit the values returned, sort the data, or return results that are offset by a certain number of values. Because it can be a topic that can trip s...
Bulk Update the Enrollment User (auth_username) using API
What This problem and solution came from a customer who had many devices in FileWave, yet did not have the 'Enrollment User' (internally known as auth_username) populated. In order for automatic associations of iPads with Apple Classroom, devices must have an...
Working With APIs
Getting Started The purpose of this guides is two fold: First, to provide an introduction to those unfamiliar with using the FileWave API Second, to be a reference for commands that can be used within the API Command Line API refers to the original RES...
FileWave Anywhere API Documentation
What FileWave Anywhere has a dedicated documentation page, which is built by Swagger and is OpenAPI. The documentation should only list public (non-internal) URL paths. Not only does it list possible commands, but there is an option to 'Try it Out', allowin...
Sending MDM Commands
What One of the powerful additional features of FileWave Anywhere, is the ability to send MDM commands to devices. As such, the FileWave Anywhere API also has this incredible ability. From, the Swagger Documentation, the following can be seen: Note the r...
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...