User Manual

Introduction

CloudWays is a webapp built to improve user productivity. It is a multi-tenant online platform for boosting automations.

Every tenant has a multi-user workspace able to manage different resource types.

Every resource can be personal or shared with specific users or groups.

Resource Types

Script

Script contains javascript code to be executed on specific devices through an agent.

Agent app is compatible with Android, MacOS, Windows and Linux devices.

Code is powered by NativeJS Runtime making available user APIs for time, filesystem, network, battery ecc...

Script can be executed on specific events ( @on directive ), scheduled on specific time interval ( @schedule directive ) and on specific devices ( @device directive )

Every script execution is logged on cloud platform including code return value as response

File

Files and folders can be managed on platform including upload and download.

Scripts can move files or folders from device to cloud

Password

Password contains credentials for accessing a specific service.

Password can be injected into a specific webpage through a browser extension.

Passway app is a extension available on Firefox Store

Security

Users

Every user on workspace has many authentication options.

Password

This authentication method is called BASIC and requires username and password.

MFA

This authentication method is called MFA and requires sequentially :

  1. BASIC method
  2. Email confirmation

You can enable trusted device policy (avoid email reconfirmation for devices flagged as trusted from user)

IDK

This authentication method is called IDK (Identity Key) and requires a private key.

You can force IDK as the only authentication method for the user.

Resources

Every resource on workspace is shareable with users or groups and is secured by PPK (Personal Private Key).

Every user must generate his own PPK before managing resources on platform

Personal Tokens

Every user can generate his own personal token.

Personal token is used to authenticate Agent App to the cloud

Personal token is composed by a key and a secret

Devices

Every device can have many folder-sync rules from device to cloud

Sync Policies

Agent App

Agent App is a native app running on specific OS.

Operations

When the app is restarted it will :

  1. Starts syncronization of folders (full + incremental via file watchers)
  2. Interprets scripts (attach execution on events + schedule execution on specific future time)

Setup

  1. Downloading app from Solenoid Store
  2. Installing app (allowing execution)
  3. Launching app
  4. Giving required permissions
  5. Linking app to the cloud platform (fill the form and press "SAVE")

Run

To run the agent you need to launch the app and press on "RESTART"

Supported OS

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