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Description A FileWave Booster can run on macOS, Windows, or Debian. Installers, appliances, and current install commands are on FileWave Software Downloads. Installers Debian Debian has two options. FileWave provides a pre-built Debian VM, similar to the File...

What FileWave provides pre-built Appliances, quick to setup and peace of mind all should be well.  These currently include: FileWave Server Booster IVS Out of the box, FileWave Appliances are configured to use DHCP. You should note that these concepts...

As FileWave continues to develop our industry-leading multi-platform solution, our primary goal is to make it as simple, stable, and scalable as possible. With the End of Life of CentOS on June 30th, 2024, beginning with 15.2.0, the FileWave Server will be shi...

What FileWave Server, Booster, and Imaging Virtual Server (IVS) components should use IPv4. Enabling IPv6 on these server components can cause unexpected communication or service-discovery problems. When/Why Use this guidance when installing or troubleshooting...

Requirements As of January 2025 v15.5.1 the below are supported for running Boosters, but for updated information always consult the specific release on the Downloads Page. The FileWave Booster can also be installed on a Virtual Machine. macOS 12, 13 (Inte...

What FileWave 11 introduced Booster Routing, a feature that allows off-loading direct traffic to the server by routing messages via Booster. This feature provides additional security if you only allow boosters to connect to your server and have all your device...

Booster Monitor When you first launch Booster Monitor, it will attempt to connect to the Booster at the default address of 127.0.0.1 with the assumption that you are running the monitor on the system you installed it on. You can change that address to any v...

FileWave no longer produces Hyper-V Generation 1 appliance images. Starting with FileWave Version 16.1.1, newly posted Hyper-V Server, Booster, and IVS appliances use Generation 2. No action is required for an existing Generation 1 Server, Booster, or IVS appl...

What Starting from FileWave version 15.5.0, there have been important changes to the default login process and security features of the FileWave Appliance:  Disabled Root Login: The root user is now disabled from logging in directly to enhance security. N...

Overview This guide explains how to use the FileWave Smart Disk Expansion script to automatically expand disk space on FileWave appliances. The script handles all the complexity of expanding LVM physical volumes, partitions, and filesystems with comprehensive...

FileWave's Hyper-V VMs are usually built using the latest version of Hyper-V, typically the same one that comes with the newest version of Windows Server. When importing the FileWave Server, IVS, or on older Windows OS'es, the Hyper-V Manager console may not b...

Planning Scalability is largely determined by how many devices can be maintained simultaneously in a managed environment. A standalone FileWave Server can support a limited number of devices. Linux and macOS-based FileWave Servers can support between 1000-1500...

What We are monitoring OS-level age-attestation legislation (including California AB1043) to determine whether it creates any required changes for FileWave appliances. Current FileWave appliance scope: FileWave Server (Debian) FileWave Booster (Debian) FileWa...

Introduction A Booster in the context of FileWave is a 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 FileWave ...

Please note that this is here for educational purposes. We are transitioning to Debian 13 with FileWave 16.3.0. This guide is published to get feedback from others and develop this process to be as safe as possible. The learnings from this article have gone in...

For the Linux based FileWave Server, Booster, or IVS if you cannot use the port https://server:10000 to change network setting please follow the instructions below: Debian Linux Changing the IP address in Debian involves different steps compared to CentOS. The...

FileWave download pages include OVA images for FileWave Server, Booster, and Imaging Virtual Server (IVS) appliances. An OVA is a packaged virtual appliance. It normally contains an OVF descriptor file, one or more virtual disks, and sometimes a manifest file ...