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Shared Topics
Shared topics in SOTI XSight are custom topics that can be shared across multiple views or users, allowing for consistent monitoring and analysis across different teams or departments. Shared topics provide several capabilities, such as always being monitored, starting monitoring when configured, and restarting monitoring immediately when a device reboots. Historical data for shared topics is available in the Device Details dialog.

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- Introducing Live View
- Using Live View Controls
- Using Views in Live View
  - Creating a View
    This topic describes how to create a view to track parameters that you specify for a set of devices. You select which devices to track, the data items or topics to watch, and how the map displays that information.
  - Starting a Live View Session
    Start a view and make observations about what is happening in the running view.
  - Saving a Live View Session
    This topic shows how to save a live view session for viewing at a later time.
  - Loading a Saved Live View Session
    This topic shows how to view a saved Live View session.
  - Using Display Modes
    Use display modes to select how to view devices in Live View. You can choose from five different display modes.
  - Highlighting Devices with the Control Panel
  - Individual Device Tracking
    There are three ways to track an individual device: Automatic, Heat, and Spot tracking. You can simultaneously track multiple individual devices using any of these tracking modes.
  - Excluding Individual Devices
    You can remove devices from the view if you no longer want to track them or to reduce clutter. You can simply remove a device from the view, or control when to exclude the device using filters based on the device having a topic value in a particular range. For example, you may want to exclude all devices except for devices associated with a specific fleet. Additionally,you may only want to see the devices with poor signal strength or the devices that traveling faster than a certain speed, etc.
  - Global Device Tracking
    With global device tracking, you can apply tracking rules to all devices in a view. This feature is particularly beneficial for views containing many devices.
  - Globally Excluding Devices
    By globally excluding devices, you can apply exclusion rules to all devices in a view. This feature is particularly beneficial for views containing many devices. You exclude all devices in a view based on the device having a topic value in a particular range. Remove devices when you no longer want to track them or to reduce clutter.
  - Using Standard Topics
    Standard topics are predefined categories of information available by default once the SOTI XSight Agent is installed. These topics provide comprehensive insights into device performance, network conditions, and user behavior
  - Creating Custom Topics
    Custom topics allow you to display data collected by applications in Live View, letting users create personalized categories of information based on specific needs or criteria. The methods and requirements for retrieving data from business applications are listed below.
  - Shared Topics
    Shared topics in SOTI XSight are custom topics that can be shared across multiple views or users, allowing for consistent monitoring and analysis across different teams or departments. Shared topics provide several capabilities, such as always being monitored, starting monitoring when configured, and restarting monitoring immediately when a device reboots. Historical data for shared topics is available in the Device Details dialog.
- Window Configurations and the Time Machine
- Analyzing Device Details
- Using Indoor Location
- SOTI MobiControl Live View Device Action
- Live View API Documentation
  Integrate SOTI XSight into your enterprise mobility workflow or partner applications using our RESTful web service API.
- Live View Heatmap Data Reference
Watchlists
Incident Management
Manage Shared Topics
Generate XSight Agent
Sync MobiControl Info
Roles and Permissions
Using the Self Service Portal
Diagnostics and Remote Control
Using the SOTI XSight Administration Utility
Logging Out
Glossary
Notices

Shared Topics

Shared topics in SOTI XSight are custom topics that can be shared across multiple views or users, allowing for consistent monitoring and analysis across different teams or departments. Shared topics provide several capabilities, such as always being monitored, starting monitoring when configured, and restarting monitoring immediately when a device reboots. Historical data for shared topics is available in the Device Details dialog.

Note: Shared topic values are cached in device RAM. The amount of time that Shared topics are held in RAM is dictated by the Window Configuration.

To create, edit, and configure shared topics, access the SOTI XSight web console as an administrator, and navigate to Live View > Manage Shared Topics.

Some of the parameters that you can configure for share topics include:

Collection frequency
Significant changes of conditions
Units for the custom topic.

See the Manage Shared Topics section for more information.