15.2. Enabling and Disabling Device Services

15.2.1. How to Determine the Current State of Device Services
15.2.2. How to Enable or Disable USB Device Services

Before devices can be accessed on a Sun Ray Client, Sun Ray device services for the device must be enabled. Sun Ray device services can be enabled and disabled with the utdevadm command line tool or from the Security tab on the Admin GUI Advanced tab. Sun Ray device services include USB devices connected through USB ports, internal serial ports, and internal smart card readers on the Sun Ray Client.

Here are the available device services for external peripheral devices:

After you install Sun Ray Software, all device services are enabled by default. You can use the utdevadm command to enable or disable device services only in the configured mode, that is, after the Sun Ray Data store is activated.

This configuration affects all the servers in a group and all the clients connected to that group.

15.2.1. How to Determine the Current State of Device Services

The utdevadm command displays the enabled or disabled state of device services.

# utdevadm

15.2.2. How to Enable or Disable USB Device Services

  • To enable USB services, use the utdevadm command.

    # utdevadm -e -s usb
  • To disable USB services, use the utdevadm command.

    # utdevadm -d -s usb