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GlobalProtect Administrator’s Guide 117
Manage Mobile Devices Group Devices by Tag for Simplified Device Administration
Pre-Tag Devices
To simplify administration of policies for corporate-provisioned devices, you can automatically pre-tag
corporate devices by compiling a list of serial numbers for the devices to be provisioned in a comma-separated
values (CSV) file and then importing them into the Mobile Security Manager. By default, imported devices are
assigned the tag “Imported.” Optionally you can add a second column to your CSV/XLS file for the tag name
if you want to specify any additional tags to assign to imported devices, for example if you have different levels
of access for different groups of users receiving corporately provisioned devices. You do not have to assign the
same tag to all imported devices.
Step 2 Assign tags to managed mobile devices.
Note You can also use this procedure to
remove tags from devices, selecting the
tags you want to remove and then clicking
Untag.
1. Go to the
Devices tab.
2. Select the devices you want to assign the tag to by clicking in the
row that corresponds to the device entry. To simplify this
process, you can sort the devices by any of the column headers
or use one of the pre-defined Filters in the left pane.
3. Click
.
4. Associate tags with the selected device(s) in one of the following
ways:
• Click
Add to display the list of tags you have created so that
you can click one, or click
New Tags to define a new tag on
the fly.
• To browse through the list of tags you have created, click
Browse and then locate the tags you want to associate with
the selected devices, clicking the to add each tag to the list
of tags associated with the selected device(s). Repeat this step
for each tag to associate with the selected device(s).
5. Click
Tag to save the tag associations.
Step 3 Save the configuration. Click
Commit.
Import a Batch of Devices
Step 1 Create a comma-separated values (CSV)
file or Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that
contains the list of device serial numbers
in the first column and, optionally, a list
of tags to assign to devices in the second
column.
Create the CSV file in two columns without adding column headers
as follows and then save it to your local computer or network share:
Create Tags and Assign them to Managed Devices (Continued)