Contents
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Introducing Tachyon
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Quick Start
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Implementing Tachyon
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Using Settings
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Using Explorer
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Using Guaranteed State
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Using Inventory
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Using Experience
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Using Patch Success
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Troubleshooting
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Extending Tachyon
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Training
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Tachyon Operator v5.0 Lab Guide
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Ex 1 - TCN Opr v5.0 - Installing and Configuring Tachyon Prerequisites
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Ex 2 - TCN Opr v5.0 - Installing Tachyon
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Ex 3 - TCN Opr v5.0 - Exploring the Settings Application
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Ex 4 - TCN Opr v5.0 - Instruction Sets and Management Groups
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Ex 5 - TCN Opr v5.0 - Working with Instructions
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Ex 6 - TCN Opr v5.0 - Working with Patch Success
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Ex 7 - TCN Opr v5.0 - Working with Inventory
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Ex 8 - TCN Opr v5.0 - Using Guaranteed State
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Ex 9 - TCN Opr v5.0 - Microsoft Configuration Manager Integration
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Ex 10 - TCN Opr v5.0 - Creating Instructions and Fragments Using TIMS
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Ex 11 - TCN Opr v5.0 - Working with Experience
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Ex 1 - TCN Opr v5.0 - Installing and Configuring Tachyon Prerequisites
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Tachyon Advanced v5.0 Lab Guide
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Tachyon - Nomad as Content Provider Lab Guide
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Tachyon Operator v5.0 Lab Guide
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Reference
Exploring the Settings Application
Now that Tachyon has been installed and the 1E Client deployed, and we have explored the Tachyon Portal and the Applications, we are ready to configure Tachyon. Before we can use Tachyon, we need to create some users and assign them roles, so they can administer the system. The install account we used to install Tachyon has very limited rights to administer Tachyon, one of them being the ability to add new users and configure new roles. Thus, you want to install with an account which you will not be using for administration in Tachyon, beyond managing users/roles and adding Instruction Sets.
Configuring Tachyon Users and Roles
Configure Tachyon Users and Roles
- Log onto 1ETRNAP as 1ETRN\AppInstaller
- Launch the Tachyon Portal via https://tachyon.1etrn.local/tachyon using Google Chrome
- Create a Bookmark to the Portal – we will be using this often
- Launch the Settings Application
- Navigate to Permissions - Users, note that only one actual user exists: 1ETRN\AppInstaller
- Navigate to Roles - Review the default roles and their descriptions
- On the Users tab, click the Add button to the far right to add a new user
- In the Add user box in the middle, start typing tachyon_admins and Select Tachyon_admins when it resolves from the suggestion list. Click Add
- Repeat the process to add 1ETRN\Tachyon_adminG as a user and then select the Tachyon_AdminG account by clicking in the Name column. Click Edit in the far right. Select Global Approvers and click Save
- Navigate to Users and Click on Tachyon_Admins
- Click Edit and add the following roles to the Tachyon_Admins group – Global Actioners, Global Approvers, Instruction Set Administrators. Click Save. Select the Group Members tab
- Navigate back to Users and click on the AppInstaller user and note the roles that are assigned to this user
- Log onto 1ETRNDC as 1ETRN\Administrator
- From the start menu, launch Active Directory Users and Computers
- Under the Users node, locate the Tachyon_admins group
- Double-click the group, and click on the Members tab. Note that there are no members in this group
- Click the Add button
- We installed Tachyon using the LDAP for Active Directory. We can use any Global or Universal Security Groups from Active Directory. If we had used GC(Global Catalog) variable for Active Directory, any groups we want to use in Tachyon must be configured to be universal for Tachyon to have visibility to them
- In the search box, type in Tachyon_admin and hit the Check Names button
- Multi select tachyon_admin1 and tachyon_admin2. Click OK. Click OK
- Ensure the correct users have been added. Click OK
- Return to the Tachyon Portal - Settings Application on 1ETRNAP
- Navigate to Permissions – Users Click on 1ETRN\Tachyon_admins user, and click the GroupMembers tab at the top
- Click the Roles tab at the top. Notice that we have the Global Actioners role, the Global Approvers role and Instruction Set Administrators role
Adding Additional Users and Roles
We need to add some additional users and roles in Tachyon for our upcoming exercises
- Return to the Settings Application from the Tachyon Portal
- Navigate to Permissions - Users and add the following users and their roles:
User | Role(s) to assign |
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1ETRN\User | Experience Viewers |
1ETRN\Manager1 | Guaranteed State Administrators |
1ETRN\Tachyon_adminPP | Global Administrators |
1ETRN\TachyonConnector | Connector Administrators |
Exploring the Settings Application
- Still logged in as 1ETRN\AppInstaller
- Look at the other nodes of the Settings Application. Configuration, Monitoring and Instructions we will look at these in greater detail in later exercises
- Click Switch app Notice that we can only switch to Explorer
Exploring the Explorer Application
In this exercise, we will log on as different users and look at the Explorer Application based on what permissions each user has.
View as Global Actioners, Global Approvers, and Instruction Set Admins
- Log into 1ETRNW71 as 1ETRN\Tachyon_admin1
- Launch the Tachyon Portal by opening a browser and navigate to https://tachyon.1etrn.local/tachyon in Google Chrome
- Add the Tachyon Portal as a bookmark on each of the devices
- Open the Settings Application at the bottom of the page. Note only the Instructions Node is available
- Click on Switch app at the bottom and Navigate to Explorer
- Navigate around and notice which nodes are available. Click Switch app to try to navigate to the other applications
- Stay logged in and leave the console running, we will revisit this machine with this logged in user later in the labs
View of Guaranteed State Administrators
- Log onto 1ETRNW72 as 1ETRN\Manager1
- Launch Google Chrome and navigate to https://tachyon.1etrn.local/tachyon
- Launch the Guaranteed State Application create a bookmark
- Launch each of the nodes to see what they contain. There will not be much data yet as we have not created any policies. We will revisit this in later exercises
- Notice that 1ETRN\Manager1 has no access to any of the other applications in the Tachyon Portal. It can see the Explorer Application in Switch App but cannot navigate there as all of the responses will be passed into the Guaranteed State Application
View as a Global Approver
- Log onto 1ETRNW73 as 1ETRN\Tachyon_adminG
- Navigate to https://tachyon.1etrn.local/tachyon in Google Chrome
- Launch the Explorer application. Note the nodes available for this account
- Expand the Devices node, and click on Table
- Note that 7 clients are shown in the top pane, each with an Online status. If any machines show as being offline, check to ensure they are powered on
- Navigate to Devices – Dashboard. Have a look at the items that are available to this user
- Navigate to Notifications. Notice that it is empty as we do not have any instructions yet
- Leave the browser open we will be back to this one in a bit
- Click on the Start button in Windows, and in the search box type Calc. Click on the Calculator application and launch it. Minimize it and leave it running
View as Experience, Guaranteed State, Inventory and Patch Success Viewer
- Log onto 1ETRNW101 as 1ETRN\user
- Navigate to https://tachyon.1etrn.local/tachyon in Google Chrome
- Launch the Explorer application from the Tachyon Portal
- Launch the Experience Application
- Launch the Guaranteed State Application
- Launch the Inventory Application
- Launch the Patch Success Application
- Explore the nodes to get a feel for the applications
View as Global Administrator
- Log onto 1ETRNW102 as 1ETRN\Tachyon_AdminPP
- Launch Google Chrome and navigate to https://tachyon.1etrn.local/tachyon
- Launch the Settings Application
- Notice the increased number of nodes. 1ETRN\Tachyon_AdminPP is our Global Administrator and has access to all of Tachyon
- Navigate to Configuration – License Information
- Review the License properties for our lab
- Later in the labs when we create our own instructions, we will review the properties of our license and how that applies to creating Instructions
- Navigate to the other nodes and Applications to review the options
- Stay logged into 1ETRNW102. We will be revisiting the machine once we start using Tachyon
Lab Summary
In this lab, we explored the Tachyon Portal and the different applications under different user contexts. We validated the role-based security we applied on different users and groups. Finally, we navigated into the different nodes within the applications to get a feel for the product.
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Ex 4 - TCN Opr v5.0 - Instruction Sets and Management Groups