This guide goes over the best practice to connect a fleet of Linux based devices at once to Upswift platform.
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This guide goes over the best practice to connect a fleet of Linux based devices at once to Upswift platform. The best practice guidelines are taught how to register thousands of devices at once by using automatic technics which save manual registration for each and every device.
Connect devices at once to Upswift platform approaches
Upswift agent automatically recognizes new hardware based on the MAC addresses of the device. The next 2 methods can help to install Upswift on a fleet of devices easily without the need to register each device separately.
Guidelines
Method A
Register devices by duplicating an existing OS image that has Upswift Agent installed inside it.
Method B
Register devices by coping Upswift agent to the build of your custom OS (mainly for Yocto, Buildroot, and Debian based images).
Depends if you have Systemd or SysV service manager:
For Systemd:
For SysV:
Paste those files at the same paths on the build of the OS file-system.*In case of using Systemd, please also paste upswift.service in: