About Hardware Management

 

Note:   Most of the functionality described in this section is only available to system administrators. However, organizational administrators have the ability to perform some device management functions. These functions are described in the section About Devices.

Under the Hardware section of the RiskBand ARIES Manager navigation pane, there are the following icons:

    Device Models—A device model is a particular hardware version of a RiskBand.

    Firmware Builds—A device firmware build is a software build (or image) that can be installed or upgraded to on one or more devices.

    Firmware Model Mappings—A device firmware build mapping maps a particular device firmware build with a particular device model, permitting devices of that model to use the firmware build.

    Devices—A device is a RiskBand.

    Device Agents—A device agent proxies communication between a device and the HTTP RESTful server, acting on behalf of the device as its agent.  Device agents must be capable of determining their GPS coordinates and talking to the HTTP RESTful server themselves, without the device's assistance. This permits the device to conserve battery power while using the agent, since the device can have the agent use its power for GPS data acquisition and communications with the HTTP RESTful server.  Agents are intended to be used to provide frequent communications of high-granularity GPS data, and to be used as a redundant path back to the HTTP RESTful server to trigger an emergency, upload an emergency artifact, or cancel an active emergency.

    Device Log Sets—A diagnostic log set is uploaded by devices and device agents and contains diagnostic logs for developers and support.

By right-clicking on these icons, or by selecting the object and then clicking the Action menu item, you can perform various actions. For descriptions of the actions available for Hardware, see the following sections:

    About Device Models (System Administrator only)

    About Firmware Builds (System Administrator only)

    About Firmware Model Mappings (System Administrator only)

    About Devices

    About Device Log Sets (System Administrator only)