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Yes, in current EVE OS releases. In future, EVE OS may decide to decouple the EVE image and some of the containers. The EdgeView container can then be dynamically downloaded into the EVE device when the EdgeView session is provisioned from the controller. In some cases it can have the chicken and egg situation, for example in order to troubleshoot the problem on the EVE device we need to use Edgeview, and due to those issues the EdgeView container can not be downloaded dynamically.
25) What does Multi-Instance EdgeView do
It allows multiple users to access the same remote EVE device or for different applications simultaneously. In the multi-instance case, the users share the same client script for EdgeView but supply an unique 'instance-id' when issuing the EdgeView commands.