Gerrie Rockwell Automation Group - ThinManager
ThinManager allows unprecedented control and security in a sustainable and scalable platform regardless of the size of your industrial environment or number of facilities.Â
ThinManager's thin client architecture allows for deployment of less expensive hardware while giving users the applications and tools familiar to them in a format that reduces management and maintenance costs while increasing security.
Version 13
New Features
Productivity
- REST API
- Database Health Check
- Support for Cookies in Web
- Browser Containers
- Sound in Containers
- MSI patch adoption
Visualization
- Event based content delivery
- Canned virtual screen layouts
MobilityÂ
- sound redirection for iTMC, aTMC
SecurityÂ
- Custom CA Certificates for Web Browser Containers
- RA Firewall Utility adoption
- Secure boot for supported hardware
Productivity Features ThinManager 13
REST API
Enable partial backup and restore of system data base, commission ThinManager at scale acorss an enterprise, and validate IT standard requirements such as DNS and PXE settings.
Database Health Check
Self service evaluation of database integrity within the UI.
Storage of Cookies for Web Browser Containers
Cookies are associated with a specific container app on a terminal, location, or user. With a checkbox in the wizard, enable the delivery of the cookies from the database when the container is created.
Sound for Containers
Enhanced Patch Management
For Service Packs (or Patch Rollup), ThinServer.exe will no longer be re-registered during install, no longer required the service account to be entered.
Visualization Features ThinManager 13
Event Based Content Delivery
Events are created from external sources and are triggered in ThinManager from variable properties configured in TermMon. Once a trigger is received from another application, ThinManager can execute a variety of actions including:
Add Display Client - New content on a terminal
Permissions - Add or remove user permissions
Pass through event - Actions triggered outside ThinManager
Switch or tile display clients - Change visualization
Preconfigured virtual screen layouts
We can now increase the productivity and reactivity of users such as operators or maintenance staff when problems arise on the plant floor by configuring actions to occur within ThinManager to respond to those problems
For example, IF a safety perimeter is breached around let's say a palletizer machine, THEN we can bring up a camera feed of that machine to the operator workstation or in the control room to see what happened at that particular place on the plant floor
We can even pass through an event from an outside application such as your MES software to trigger another pre-configured action outside ThinManager in a separate application
Documents
ThinManager Product Profile Version 12 / 11
Industrial Network and Infrastructure Security Using ThinManager
ThinManager Videos
Blog Posts and Links
Internal and External Information
System Integrator Uses Thin Client Technology to Centralize Control of Disparate Machines and Systems
Rockwell's ThinManager Site
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