Administrator Guide
needs. You can organize and manage based on functional groups (Example: Marketing, Sales and Engineering etc.). Others may want to
organize based on the locations of the devices (Example: Time zone as the rst level group, State at the second level, City at the third
level, Building at the fourth level, Floor at the fth level).
NOTE: You can create rules to automatically create groups or assign devices to existing groups based on device attributes
such as subnet, time zone and location.
• Settings or policies that apply to all the devices in the tenant account are set at the Default Policy group. This is the global set of
parameters that all groups and subgroups will inherit from.
• Settings or parameters that are congured at lower level groups takes precedence over settings that were congured at the parent
or higher level groups.
• Parameters that are specic to a particular device may be congured from the Device Details page.
• Conguration parameters are pushed to all devices in that group and all the subgroups, when you create and publish the policy.
• Once a conguration is published and propagated to the devices, the settings will not be sent again to the devices until the next
time the Administrator makes a change.
• New devices that are registered receives the conguration policy that is eective for the group to which it was registered.
• Applications, updates, and other such operations are done from the Apps and Data tab of the UI.
• Applications are deployed based on Policy Groups.
• Deployment of Applications to the devices may be scheduled immediately or a later time, based on specic time zone congured on
device.
• Inventory of devices can be located by clicking Devices tab. By default, this shows a paginated, at list of all the devices in the system.
You can choose to view a subset of the devices using a variety of lter criteria, such as Groups or subgroups, device type OS type,
status, subnet, platform or time zone.
• Clicking the device entries listed on this page navigates to the Device Details page for that device. This shows a variety of detailed
information for that device
• The Device Details page also shows all the conguration parameters that apply to that device, and also the group level at which
each parameter took eect.
• This section also enables to set conguration parameters that are specic to that device. Parameters congured in this section
overrides any parameters that were congured at the Groups and/or global level.
• You can generate and view canned reports based on predened lters by navigating to Portal Admin and then clicking the Reports Tab.
• You will receive an alert notication and manage devices using mobile app is available for Android and iOS devices. Mobile app and its
quick start guide can be downloaded by navigating to Portal Admin and then clicking the Alert Classication option.
Introduction
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