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Configuring Devices |
There are eight main aspects to device configuration. Each of these settings can be configured for a single device or applied at the device group level thereby configuring a set of devices. When the devices are moved from one device group to another in the device tree, the settings for the new device group are applied automatically to the devices. Please see the Device Relocation Rule page for more information on automatically re-configuring devices based on their location (using IP address or other custom criteria).
Remote Control Settings
Select a device skin to display in the MobiControl Remote, and choose the connection profile to use when remote controlling the device. This allows for customized remote control settings, optimised for different types of connections, for instance, high-speed Wi-Fi or low-speed cellular connections). Please see the Remote Control Settings page.
Device Update Schedule
Adjust the interval at which the mobile devices contact the Deployment Server for new updates, configuration changes and packages. Please see the Device Update Schedule page.
Device Exchange ActiveSync
Configure Exchange ActiveSync settings for your mobile device. Please see the Device Exchange ActiveSync page.
Deployment Server Priority
This option allows you to specify the Deployment Server preferences for the devices. When a device is configured with more than one Deployment Server, it will try to connect to highest priority one first and if this server is not accessible, then it will try to connect to the next server available. Please see the Deployment Server Priority page.
Advanced Settings
This option allows you to configure advanced settings for your mobile device(s), via. configure connection security by enabling or disabling SSL, select connection mode between persistent, scheduled and manual, change connection retry interval and set log file management, among other options. Please see the Advanced Settings page.
Device Time Synchronization
This option allows you to enable time synchronization for a mobile device, allowing the device to update its date and time settings by periodically synchronizing them with an SNTP/NTP time server or the MobiControl Deployment Server. Please see the Device Time Synchronization page.
Custom Data
This option allows you to create your own monitoring fields to be shown in the Device Info window. This can be useful for monitoring various aspects of third-party applications. Please see the Custom Data page.
Device Security and Control
Configure security settings for mobile devices including device lockdown for operating the devices in a kiosk mode and restricting web browsing to specific websites, user login and authentication policies, application control to restrict the applications and processes that are allowed to run on the devices, file encryption for the device and storage card file system and device-side security scripts. Please see the Device Security and Control page.
Device Configuration Menu options
Configuration Override Settings
Override settings allows you to create unique configuration settings at the current level which you have selected. This will override the settings that the device or group was previously inheriting from the parent group.
If the configuration settings are different at any sublevel (be it device or subgroup) then a confirmation prompt will allow you to choose whether the current setting(s) should be applied to all sub devices and groups or only the level that inherit configurations from this group.
