Creating Device Groups

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Device groups help you organize the devices within a site for easier management. Device groups are dynamic. Any devices currently enrolled and devices that are enrolled in the future that fit the criteria will be automatically added to the group.

For example, if you create a group with the criteria make = Zebra, every device currently in your device inventory that is a Zebra device will be added to the group. Then, if you enroll more Zebra devices next week, those devices will also be automatically added to the group.

To create a new device group:

  1. Navigate to your site, and select the Site Management tab.

  2. In the Device Groups section, click Add.

  3. Enter a name for the device group.

  4. Enter criteria to select which devices belong to the group. Remember, device groups are dynamic. Any devices currently enrolled and devices that are enrolled in the future that fit the criteria will be automatically added to the group.

  5. Click Save.

Device Group Criteria

Device group criteria is made of basic expressions that follow: field operator value. If you want to use a value that includes spaces or spacial characters, use single quotes ' ' to surround the value.

  • model = TC57

  • mac_address = '00:1A:2B:3C:4D:5E'

You can also create conditional expressions using AND , OR, and parentheses ( ).

  • make = Zebra and model = TC57

  • make = Zebra and (model = TC57 or model = TC56)

You can include ranges of numbers by using [ start .. end ].

  • terminal_id = [1..50]

Fields

make

Matches the manufacturer of a device.

model

Matches the model of a device.

ip_address

Matches the IP address of a device.

terminal_id

Matches the terminal ID of a device.

imei

Matches the IMEI number of a device.

mac_address

Matches the Wi-Fi MAC address of a device.

build

Matches the build serial information of a device.

Operators

=

Selects devices with values that exactly match the criteria.

<

Selects devices with values less than the criteria.

<=

Selects devices with values less than or equal to the criteria.

>

Selects devices with values greater than the criteria.

>=

Selects devices with values grater than or equal to the criteria.