Using Signal Policies to Monitor Devices and Servers

Overview

Signal is an advanced monitoring system that tracks the condition of your Windows Mobile and Android managed devices through criteria you define. These criteria span SOTI MobiControl. When a criterion is met, it can trigger an alert that appears in the SOTI MobiControl Notification Panel, and an automatic mitigation within SOTI MobiControl. You can set permissions to restrict who can view the alerts in the Notification Panel.

Device events and device property-related conditions are popular targets for monitoring. For example, you could get an alert under the following conditons:

(If Available Storage < 1 GB AND Battery Percentage < 20%)

Signal Policy Wizard with battery and memory conditions highlighted

The following video offers a quick introduction to adding a new Signal policy:

Note: As of SOTI MobiControl version 15.6, Signal does not support outdoor geofences, device-side schedule and evaluation, or REST APIs.

Create Signal policies to monitor the following categories of devices, servers, or venues:

  • Managed Device: devices enrolled in SOTI MobiControl
  • Management Server: properties and events related to the SOTI MobiControl Management Server
  • Deployment Server: properties and events related to the SOTI MobiControl Deployment Server
  • Profile: properties and events related to profiles managed on the SOTI MobiControl WebConsole
  • System: properties and events related to system devices, such as percentage of licenses remaining.
  • Policy: properties and events related to policies, such as policy name and type.
  • User and Group: properties and events related to users and groups, such as group and user name.

You can create Signal policies using complex nested logical expressions, in a format similar to these examples:

[(A AND B AND C) OR (D AND E)]

[(A OR B OR C) AND (D OR E)]

See Signal Policy Examples for detailed use cases.