Secure Global Desktop Administration Guide > Arrays, servers and load balancing > Introducing Array Manager

Introducing Array Manager

Use Array Manager to perform these tasks:

• Set up and manage an array of Secure Global Desktop servers, for emulator session load balancing.
• Configure array-wide settings, and settings for each array member.

You can use command-line tools for these tasks, if you prefer. See tarantella array and tarantella config for more information.

Only Secure Global Desktop Administrators are allowed to run Array Manager.

What you see

Array Manager has two panes, which you can resize.

• On the left, the Array pane shows the array members and all the areas you can configure.
• On the right, the Properties pane lets you configure those areas.

You can get help on any part of Array Manager: click the context help button at the lower right of the Array Manager window, and then click the part you want help on.

The Array pane

The Array pane shows all the areas you can configure. It's arranged as a tree:

• At the top of the tree are the array-wide properties. Changing attributes for these affects all array members. For example, in Secure Global Desktop Login properties you can set the login theme, which affects the login page that users see -- whatever array member they log in to.
• Expand the Array part of the tree to show all the array members. Choose Properties for an array member to show its current status.
• Expand the tree for an array member to show the configurable areas for that array member. Changing an attribute here affects only that array member.

You can also set up and dismantle an array.

The Properties pane

The Properties pane shows all the attributes you can change either for the array or for a particular Secure Global Desktop server.

For detailed information on array-wide attributes, see:

• Application Launch properties
• Array properties
• Emulator Sessions properties
• Licenses properties
• Load Balancing properties
• Printing properties
• Security properties
• Secure Global Desktop Login properties

For detailed information on server-specific attributes, see:

• Audio Protocol Engine properties
• Channel Protocol Engine properties
• Character Protocol Engine properties
• Execution Protocol Engine properties
• General properties
• Print Protocol Engine properties
• Security properties
• Smart Card Protocol Engine properties
• Tuning properties
• X Protocol Engine properties

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