14.1 Firmware Overview

Every Sun Ray Client contains a firmware module that handles the following items:

To accommodate customers with differing requirements for flexibility and security, the Sun Ray Client firmware can be used in two ways:

A Sun Ray Client's local configuration values are checked first during the Sun Ray Client initialization, so this mode enables users to individually configure a Sun Ray Client's behavior at the local level. To make the Configuration GUI available to users on Sun Ray Clients, you must specifically enable it with the utfwadm command.