Software s HP Cloud Endpoint Manager User guide

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Model: HP Cloud Endpoint Manager

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HP Cloud Endpoint Manager:

Quick Guide and Key Concepts

This guide will introduce you to HP Cloud Endpoint Manger and explain key concepts within the

software.

Definitions:

Configuration: A uniquely scoped value that maps to the device configuration elements. For example,

mouse speed, VDI connection, and keyboard language.

Template: A parameterized executable component (script, app installation, and so on) that can be

validated via an end-state.

Task: The instantiation of a template execution to any given group of devices.

Policy: A collection of configuration values, templates, and software checks defining a desired

configuration state. Policies can be applied dynamically based on the device’s state changes. Polices

can be tested or enforced against managed devices with results measurable in real-time.

Users: The people who will use and operate HPCEM. Add new domain users or local users from this

page.

Settings: A section that allows you to adjust preferences as well as view key account information. Use

this area to configure and assign roles, check on your HPCEM licenses, access audit logs, see the latest

system version, and review release notes.

Key HPCEM Themes:

Device Common Configuration

With common configuration, HPCEM delivers a simple to understand interface for managing system

and software configuration elements that is as capable and powerful as working with the endpoint

directly.

• Familiar “control panel” like experience

• Grouping of related items

• Simple and intuitive controls for advanced concepts

• Over 300 configuration attributes and growing

• Replaces the Profile Editor functionality within HPDM

• Experience will be ported to endpoint devices in FY’22

• Leverages same codebase for HPCEM and local configuration

Policy-Driven Management

Simplify endpoint management using a process of desired configuration modelling which transitions

customers from an implementation-based orientation to a results-based orientation.

• Policies can be associated with device groups for convenience

• Becomes powerful when associated with dynamic grouping

• Can be used to prescribe configuration and measure compliance

• Replaces concept of “rules” within HPDM

– Polices attached to the “All Devices” group replace the first-contact rule in HPDM

• Top-level dashboard visibility into policy status

• Customer created Polices and HP provided policies

• Policy comparison, conflict, and merging workflows

Templatization of Tasks

Templates provide an extensible framework for describing various management activities that uplifts

the user experience to focus on results over the implementation details underneath.

• Based loosely on Templates within HPDM

• Highly configurable form interface to describe task requirements

– Facilitate UI customization and localization

• Ability to parameterize underlying work, such as script execution

• Inherit the underlying mechanics for the action being performed

• Abstraction of the underlying OS, when possible

• Built in mechanism to capture and document task result types and provide descriptive errors

• Support verification of task correctness

• Maintains a security contract between the parameters and any associated software payloads

GETTING STARTED

HP Cloud Endpoint Manager’s Home page leverages a dashboard mechanic to provide relevant

information in real-time about the health of the application and your managed devices. The interface

is designed to be intuitive and customizable. “Cards” are the various graphs, charts, and metrics visible

on the dashboard. You will have the ability to configure and organize the card interface for your that

best fits your environment and HP will be introducing new cards as additional functionality is exposed.

One of the key benefits of the card interface is that all data elements are clickable and will navigate

you to more specific details on the given topic.

HPCEM provides a detailed view of your device inventory. The Devices pages allow you to view and

customize device telemetry data to easily drill down to specific devices or groups of devices within

your enterprise. The available inventory data you can search has been expanded, giving you full reach

into the whole configuration of the thin client devices. In addition to customizing the table view, you

have the option to group and organize devices in multiple ways.

The first two organizational concepts we are introducing are Dynamic Groups and Manual Groups.

Dynamic groups are organized based on device criteria such as the operating system of the device,

display resolution, whether secure boot is enabled, etc. HPCEM provides a rich expression system

where you can create custom queries and a multi-layer hierarchy based of these criteria. There are

two key benefits of dynamic groups. First, dynamic groups are self-organizing, and devices will

automatically move to the correct group based on changes in the device characteristics, which will

become a powerful automation feature as HP Cloud Endpoint Manager develops. Secondly, dynamic

groups can be used to associate policies (more on that later) with devices; and these policies will be

enforced and reported by the devices being managed.

Manual groups are a free form hierarchy that you can use to group devices. As the name suggests,

these are manually managed by you for organizing devices. Manually groups are analogous to a

folder-based structure. You will have the option of organizing devices in one or more folders; you can

think of these as buckets or indexes for easy access to a group of devices. Future updates will include

additional grouping structures and iterations to the Devices interface and functionality.

MANAGING DEVICES

From the Device page you can click into any device to get a more detailed view of its configuration and

if you need to update that specific configuration in real-time and deploy it to the managed device. We

built out the configuration UI in a model similar to a control panel in order to make it easy to locate

items of interest and declutter the interface of the items you are not working with. Those of you who

have used profile-based management in HP Device Manager in the past may recognize the influences

of that management style, however, HP Cloud Endpoint Manager pushes beyond that concept in

quickly.

The Policy Management feature is our first management concept within HP Cloud Endpoint Manager

because it is new and allows users to rethink device manage from being task-oriented to event-driven

and ideally automatable. As we noted earlier you can create policies and assign them to devices. Once

assigned, HP Cloud Endpoint Manager will report the status of the policy on the given devices and

allow you to resolve issues quickly and easily.

A policy is a collection of state information that you would like a device to conform to. In this first

iteration of HP Cloud Endpoint Manager, that state is represented as the configuration data within the

Device detail view. Any element about a device configuration can be used to create a policy and then

deploy that policy to one or more managed devices. More importantly, a policy can be applied to a

dynamic group of devices – so that as new devices enter the dynamic group, they will automatically

receive the policy. If for example, you wanted to keep track of all your devices and their security

posture for example, you could create a configuration that represents the intended state of the

devices, apply this state as a policy and see real-time reporting of devices and their adherence to this

desired state. We call this stateful view “compliance” and “non-compliance”.

You can create policies by creating it from scratch, cloning a specific device configuration, cloning

another policy or merging two policies together and then pruning the configuration to just the

elements that interest you. HP will also publish policies for common behaviors to help build out a

catalog of prescriptive configurations.

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