Device Management

Device Management #################

nEdge is designed to be (to a great extent) headless. Almost every functionality of the software is configurable from the GUI. This means that also the device management can be performed simply from the GUI. However, there may be cases that require the system administrator to manually modify some of the configurations. Such cases can be for example the creation of custom network interfaces for the management or for other tasks.

The following section describes how the nEdge handles the configurations of the underlying system, and what a system administrator can do to manually modify such configurations.

Network Interfaces

nEdge is designed to reconfigure the network interfaces of the machine on which it is installed.

Reconfiguration is done as follows:

1. The existing /etc/netplan/*.yaml files are saved in the same directory with the '.old' suffix.
2. A new file /etc/netplan/20-nedge.yaml is created to configure network interfaces on the basis of the GUI settings applied.
3. If cloud-init is installed, the file /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/99-disable-network-config.cfg is created to disable cloud-init network configuration.

The administrator can configure custom interfaces in appropriate files under /etc/netplan after the nEdge system has been configured and configuration applied from the nEdge GUI.