Computer Management
Computer List
The computer list is a display of all the managed computers, showing their names, IP and MAC addresses, and other attributes. You can customize the order, visibility, and width of the columns. You can also define the order of the rows, the sorting category, and other ways to display them.
Add/Edit Computer
Basic
Name: The custom name of the client computer.
Note: Note information
IP: The IP address of the computer.
Physical Address: The MAC address of the computer's network card.
Category: The category of the client machine, which makes it easy to manage and set in batches.
System Disk: Set the boot image for the current client. When multiple system images are selected, a system boot selection menu will be displayed.
Data Disk: You can optionally mount the server disk partitions you need. When you select all, all the added disks will be automatically mounted.
Preservation Mode (Network Boot) / Preservation Mode (Local Boot): When this option is selected, the client machine will not restore the system image every time it restarts. The personal data of the operating system is preserved.
Advanced
Enable DHCP for local boot: Whether to enable DHCP automatic IP allocation function for network card when booting locally offline VHD.
Network Boot DHCP Server: When booting PXE over network, specify the server network card IP that assigns IP to client machine. The default 0.0.0.0 is to automatically select.
Subnet Mask, Gateway, Preferred DNS, Alternate DNS: The network settings of the client machine. If not set, the global settings will be used.
Boot Mode: Allow network boot, prohibit network boot, must log in before booting, boot from local disk, boot menu, log in after local boot
Network Boot Mode: Legacy, Compatible, Windows10, UEFI, Legacy(VLAN), Compatible(VLAN), Windows10(VLAN), UEFI(VLAN), UEFI SNPONLY, UEFI IPXE, UEFI SHELL
Write-back Disk: Customize the server write-back disk settings for this computer when booting over network
Windows Key: After setting the Windows key, the client machine will automatically enter the key to register the operating system after booting.
Update Options
Update Mode: Manual Update, Manual Update and Install, Manual Update and Restart, Manual Update and Delayed Restart, Automatic Update, Automatic Update and Install, Automatic Update and Restart, Automatic Update and Delayed Restart, Forced Update, Automatic Update after Booting
P2P Mode: Only update from server, only update from other update sources, automatically update from server and update sources, automatically update from all client machines, automatically update from server and all client machines
Update Source IP List: Set the client machine IP that acts as an update source. One IP per line. Multiple lines indicate multiple update sources.
Configuration
Screen Resolution: The custom screen resolution that is automatically modified after the client machine boots up.
USB Drive: You can disable read/write access to USB drives or read-only access.
Default Printer: You can set which printer is default.
Default Input Method: You can set default input method
Memory Cache / Disk Cache: Set the cache size of all disks on the client machine. You must first install disk cache component on client machine. Memory cache uses client machine's memory as write cache. File cache uses local SSD installed on client machine as secondary cache.
Watermark
Screen watermark is a digital watermark technology that displays an image or text on the screen to identify and track screen content. It can prevent unauthorized screenshots and screen recordings and effectively prevent sensitive information leakage.
There are many ways to set up screen watermarks. Users can customize watermark text content, font size color position transparency etc.
Personal Disk
Personal disk is a fixed disk used to store personal data of client machines. It can have multiple sources. Server files server shared directories and third-party iscsi cloud disks.
Personal Profile
Windows personal profile refers to some files and folders stored on computer that record user's personal settings preferences documents etc. Windows personal profile mainly includes two parts:
- Registry configuration unit. This is a file named NTuser.dat which saves user's registry-based preferences and configurations. Registry configuration unit is loaded by system when user logs in and mapped to HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry entry.
- A set of configuration file folders in file system. These folders are stored in profile directory according to user. These folders contain subfolders and data used by applications and other system components such as documents desktop start menu etc.
The main working principle is to transfer specified files or directories to hidden directory on local disk. This can effectively separate personal data from system image and realize multiple users using same image. It can let each user have their own independent working environment and also facilitate backup and recovery of user data.