Self-Provisioning

Control D can be setup by the end user quickly and easily.

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Have dozens of hundreds of end-users and wish to deploy Control D on all their individual devices? We can already sense how NOT excited you are about doing this. Don't be sad, this is going to be surprisingly painless.

Create Device

When you create a Device, a unique set of DNS resolvers is issued for that Device. If you are the end-user, you can simply click "Help me configure this" button, which will kick off a setup tutorial for the chosen platform.

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Get Link

If you are NOT the end user of the Device you just created, or simply want to set it up on a device that isn't logged in into the web control panel, click the "Copy setup link" button and send it to the end user (or yourself) via any method you want.

Self-Setup

The end user clicks the link and follows the same setup process you would if you clicked the "Help me configure this" button. They do not have to be logged in to use the self-provisioning link.

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Confirm Setup

When you view a list of your Devices, you will see them in one of two states:

  • Pending - A big purple button will be shown
  • Active - No purple button will be shown
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Once a device flips from pending to active, that means the end user successfully configured the Device. The little gray orb next the the device icon will turn green when the Device is currently active (resolved something in the last 5 minutes) - only if you enable Analytics on the Device.

Mass Import

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Future Development

This feature is currently not yet available in the web control panel.

Too tedious to create hundreds of devices manually? No problem, simply click the "Mass Create Devices" button and upload a file that contains emails of end users. Once you do this, the following will happen:

  1. For each email, a device will be created with the username as the device name (ie. [email protected] -> bob-smith will be the device name)
  2. The end user will be sent an email with a setup link for them to self-provision.

If you have total control over the end-user devices (Group Policy), you can use the Command Line Daemon to do scripted deployments.

Updated 6 days ago