Software is the code, provided by the device manufacturer, that tells the phone how to operate. Basically, software is akin to the phone's operating system. The manufacturer provides software as a downloadable package. The package is uploaded to EZ UDM Pro, unpacked, and then processed for all attribute values. The attribute names and default values are written to the SQL database instance for fast reference at the time when the software has been processed.
Add Software
You add software to EZ UDM Pro just as you would upload software to any website. All the work to unpackage, process the software and schema, attributes database injection can copy down to the connected provisioning bridges is done by EZ UDM Pro (in the background). The status of the software will change from Processing to Processed once this process has completed.
To upload a software package to EZ UDM Pro, do the following.
Note! If there was a problem in processing, the status of the software will be Error. See the Appendix for information and steps to resolve the Error statusAdd FAQ or TS steps/article for Error status in Processing/Processed.
The ability to filter software packages is a handy feature as the number of software packages increase, making it much easier to locate the software packages that you need to assign or delete.
To filter software packages, do the following:
Tip! If you are looking for a software package or all packages that contain given text in the readme, start typing the name of that software package, software version, status, or text in the readme file as uploaded. For example, to find only software that applies to a VVX 510 device and the model numbers are referenced in the readme, the software package is returned from the filter. It's important to understand that if you type 'enable' the filter will find enable and enabled, and any other matches that contain 'enable'. This feature is especially powerful given that without this feature, you would need to open and examine each software package detail screen to locate the package that contains strings with a given phrase.
In addition to the Filter feature, you can sort software packages on the Name, Version, File Size, or Status columns. To sort a column, ascending or descending, do the following:
A function of good management is to delete items that you no longer need. When the last device that is using a given software and is upgraded to a newer or different software the software can be safely deleted.
Note! Deleting software that is in use by devices deletes all references and the source files for the software from EZ UDM Pro. Devices will continue to operate normally. However, you cannot deploy the deleted version of software to other devices without uploading the package into EZ UDM Pro. Due to all references to the software being removed, the software deployed to devices that was deleted
To delete a software package, do the following:
Information on the software packages that are available on your system is viewed by clicking Software in the sidebar and clicking the software package that you need to view.
To view details and what is available, do the following:
Tags, described in the section Tags in this guide, are used in Software to associate a software package with any Location, Device Set, Model, or Bridge. Software can also be associated with the unique Global tag.
Tags are only displayed for reference. All tag management for associations, creation, deletion and other management of tags functions is configured in the Tags selection.