Advanced Template
The Advanced Template offers an advanced suite of settings for Solstice Pods in your deployment. Features include implementing quality of service to help prioritize Solstice traffic on your enterprise network, automatically rebooting Pods to maximize performance, enabling HDCP support to play high resolution video, and using LLDP for PoE power management. Custom hostnames can be set in the Advanced settings for individual Pods.
How To
Windows allows you to put QoS information into the packets being sent from the Solstice client by creating a local group policy on your computer.
On your Windows computer, press Windows logo key + R.
In the Local Group Policy Editor navigate to Local Computer Policy | Computer Configuration | Policies | Windows Settings | Policy-based QoS.
Right-click Policy-based QoS and select Create new policy.
On the first page of the Create a QoS policy wizard, enter a name for this policy in the Policy name field.
With the Specify DSCP Value check box selected, enter a value of 46.
The precedence value of 46 corresponds to "Expedited Forwarding." However, you can enter other values defined in the DSCP Pool 1 Codepoints defined by the IETF.
Click Next.
Under The QoS policy applies to label, select Only applications with this executable name and enter SolsticeClient.exe.
Click Next.
On the source and destination IP addresses page, click Next.
On the protocol and port numbers page, choose TCP and UDP from the list and then click Finish.
Packets from the Solstice client are now tagged with QoS headers with a precedence value of 46.
Note
Solstice administrators should be aware that the Cloud settings for a Solstice Pod take precedence and overwrite any conflicting settings on the Pod itself.
In the case of a settings mismatch for a Pod between Solstice Cloud and the Pod's own settings, Cloud settings always "win." The only exception is when a settings change in a Cloud template causes Solstice Cloud to be unable to connect to the Pod. In this case, the settings in that template set are rolled back to the last working configuration for that Pod. Pod and template status indicators alert users when this case occurs.
In the left sidebar menu of Solstice Cloud, click Manage > Pods.
The Pod Template Assignments table displays. This table is used to apply templates across your deployment. You can apply a template to multiple Pods at once.
Tip
Filter Solstice Pods in your deployment by default categories or categories you have created to apply templates efficiently to similar Pods. Filters allow you to apply templates by criteria such as location or campus, depending on the categories you have created and assigned to Pods.
Select the Pods you want to apply the template to. You can select each Pod's checkbox individually, or select the checkbox in the header row of the table to select all Pods showing in the table.
For each template you want to apply, go to the corresponding template type column (e.g., Welcome Screen). You can view different groups of templates by selecting a template category in the upper right corner of the table.
Select the template with the desired configuration from the list in the appropriate column for one of the selected Pods. This applies the template to all the selected Pods in the table.
Click Confirm when to confirm applying the selected template to all selected Pods.
As changes are being applied, the pending changes
icon appears next to the template(s) being applied. After the changes are applied, the Pod's normal status resumes.If a Pod is offline, any changes made are applied when the Pod comes back online.
If a settings change in a Cloud template causes Solstice Cloud to be unable to connect to the Pod, the Pod's settings for that template is rolled back to their previous configuration. A failure icon
shows that the template could not be applied.
If a template you applied has any unique-to-Pod settings that need to be applied each Pod individually, a pop-up pane appears prompting you to enter the needed information for each affected Pod. After you complete all of the settings screens, click Save & Close.
Tip
Solstice checks the settings selected for a Pod in Solstice Cloud management against the settings on the Pod itself approximately once an hour, as well as upon Pod reboot.