Overview

Device Management is an indispensable requirement to support large scale deployment. This helps in:

• Controlled bulk operations/data retrievals
• Firmware(code) download
• Dynamically enable/disable features
• Retrieving field matrices

Device Management feature is horizontally scaled between different RDK profiles (like RDK-V, RDK-B and RDK-C) as shown in the below diagram. This means that the same code can be shared between different RDK profiles.

Device Management features include:

1. Code Download (Xconf, DCM)
2. Log Upload
3. Telemetry
4. RDK Feature Control (RFC)
5. SNMP
6. TR-69
7. webPA

Code Download (xconf, DCM)

Remote devices like set top boxes and DVRs have settings to control certain activities. For instance, STBs need to know when to upload log files, or when to check for a new firmware update. In order to remotely manage a large population of devices, we need a solution that lets support staff define instructions and get the instructions to the devices. These are Device Configuration Manager (DCM) and Xconf (X1 Configuration Manager).

DCM and Xconf are management services that delivers certain configuration details to set-top-boxes (STB). 

RDK Telemetry

RDK Feature Control (RFC)

Boot/Startup

Logging

Log Upload

Memory Card Firmware upgrade

States and Diagnostics

Power State Management

SNMP

TR69 

WebPA

Device Management