IGEL Software

Central management of your IGEL thin client infrastructure is effortless and trouble-free using the bundled IGEL Remote Management Suite. It is a “full” management tool version with no restricted features. It is continually updated at no extra cost. This means your IGEL thin client project can scale up to tens of thousands of users from day one and any bug fixes or technology upgrades will not cost you any more.

Yet, IGEL Remote Management Suite is easy and intuitive to use through a user-friendly GUI interface offering ‘click and go’ type functionality, with almost all thin client firmware settings able to be controlled remotely. This is unlike many other thin client management tools that have to use complex scripts to get anything done.

IGEL Remote Management Suite allows you to group devices into “profiles” by defining rules, making device roll out and administration very easy. Using this technique, an IGEL device can automatically be given the right profile on first time connect, allowing plug-in-and-go installation a reality.

IGEL Remote Management Suite is also very network friendly and designed to reduce infrastructure costs and complexity.  For example, it can reduce network load across the WAN by using remote FTP servers for holding images. To remove the need to have dedicated local FTP servers, any IGEL Linux device can be cloned to its neighbors using ‘Buddy Update’. It also uses FTP and HTTP(S) protocols for imaging, meaning you don’t have to open proprietary ports on your organization’s routers, making installation much easier and leaving your organization with the minimum number of network ports open for maximum security.

Remote Management Suite offers high degrees of automation for job scheduling, allowing administrators to carry out maintenance tasks on groups of terminals during suitable times to minimize impact on users. Combined with the ability to easily and accurately target groups of clients using profiles, job scheduling makes maintenance of an IGEL thin client estate extremely efficient and easy.

Systems administrators will also appreciate the openness of IGEL Remote Management Suite. Its GUI is based upon Java, making access possible from any device on the network supporting a JVM. It also supports a wide variety of databases: Microsoft® SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and DB2, in addition to the free version of SAPDB that can be downloaded from our website. This wide database support makes IGEL Remote Management Suite suitable for infrastructures based on either Windows Server or Linux.

Offering great functionality, scalability and security, with a flexible, user-friendly interface, Remote Management Suite is a powerful management tool providing you with high levels of control.