Help: Clients overview

On this page you can see your clients.

If you click on the client name, you get detailed information about the selected client and can enter the control center.

Status description

The color marks the installation status of the client.

• red: Client is added, but hardware detection is not complete.

• yellow: Now you can partition and format the client. A base system with graphical user interface is installed automatically.

• green: The base system is installed, now you can add some additional software packages.

• blue: Currently the client installs additional software.

• orange: The client is in the critical state. That means there was an error during installation which must be solved by the administrator. The control center gives you some solution proposals to solve the critical state.
• white: This is a master client for mass installation from whom the settings are transferred to the other clients.
• bug: The bug indicates that the client is in debug mode.
• grey: This client is purely virtual and serves to save client properties (IP, client name, MAC), in order to keep them from being used accidentally.

Jobs

In this row you can see the amount of waiting jobs before and the amount of all jobs after the slash.

Work on multiple clients

Select the clients by checking the boxes in the client lines.

Now you can work on all selected clients::

• remove from group: Select the group all clients should be deleted from. Nothing is done, if a client is not in the selected group.
• add to group: Select the group all clients should be added to. Nothing is done, if a client already is in the selected group.
• Delete: Deletes the selected clients.
• move to group: Moves the clients to another group.
• Recover: Completely reinstalls the clients.
• Redo client jobs: Repeat all tasks that have ever been executed on the m23 client.

• Compare package status: Compares the package status of two clients.

Hint

Use the refresh function of your browser to see the current status of your clients. (e.g. by pressing the F5 key).

Gimmicks

• You can change the status of a client if you click on the according status symbol. You should only change the status if you know what you are doing.
• The debug mode can be (de)activated by clicking the bug icon.

Searching keywords

You can search the list of clients using a search term. At "Search line", enter the term that must be contained in the properties (e.g. client name, ip address, cpu type, etc.) of the client(s). Click on "Search" to run the search. The key word search has priority over the search that is based on the filter rules. For as long as a search term is used, any filter rules will be ignored. Click on "Remove search filter" to activate the filter-based search or to see the complete list of clients.

Filter-based search

You can use filter rules to limit the number of clients that are displayed in the list. At "filter", choose the property you would like to filter the list by. Everytime you select something, a new filter will be added. Depending on the property, you can add more parameters to the filter. When you would like to remove a filter, click on "-" in the corresponding line. At "sorting", you can choose the property by which the client list is to be sorted in ascending or descending order. Click on "Search", to apply the filter.