Setting Up Parent and Child Devices in School Manager

This article is for IT support.

You can use a parent Linewize appliance’s configuration to maintain continuity across multiple Linewize appliances in your system. The child devices will inherit the configuration changes from the parent device, saving you time when you maintain a large network of users’ devices.

Warning

Do not change any device settings without consulting with the Linewize Support team.

Changes to your Linewize appliances can prevent users from accessing the internet or disable filtering. When you set up a child device some configurations will be lost when the parent device overwrites the child device’s configurations.

Before you start

A parent device will overwrite the following configurations on child devices. Assess the impact of these inherited device configurations while planning changes to your Linewize appliances. 

Function in Menu Function in Config Audit
Filtering > Content Filtering applayer.filtering
Filtering > Safe Search applayer.safesearch
Configuration > Users and Groups > Groups authentication.groups

Configuration > Authentication > LDAP

Configuration > Authentication > LDAP Servers

authentication.ldap

authentication.ldap2

Configuration > Authentication > Advanced Configuration authentication.mergedidentity

Configuration > Authentication > Google

Configuration > Authentication > Microsoft Entra ID

Configuration > Authentication > Clever

Configuration > Authentication > Advanced Configuration

authentication.providers

authentication.google

authentication.azure

Configuration > Authentication > Timeouts authentication.timeouts
Configuration > Users and Groups > Users

authentication.users

authentication.parents

Configuration > Classwize > Classrooms

classroom.groups

zoom

Configuration > Classwize classwize
Configuration > Objects > Pools objects.lists
Configuration > Objects > Time Periods objects.periods
Configuration > Objects > Security Groups objects.securitygroups

 

Setting up a School Manager Parent Device

  1. In School Manager, go to Debugging > Device Options.
  2. Under Multi-Device Management, check the Is Parent checkbox.
  3. Select Save.

Setting up a School Manager Child Device

  1. In School Manager, switch to the device you want to convert to a child device.
  2. Go to Debugging > Device Options.
  3. Under Multi-Device Management, select the parent device from the Parent Device dropdown.
  4. Select Save.
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