The WSO2 IoT server is an extensible version of the product previously known as the WSO2 Enterprise Mobility Manager. The IoT server inherits all Mobile Device Management (MDM) features as well as Mobile Application Management (MAM) features from the WSO2 EMM and supports Android, iOS and Windows mobile platforms. The significant additions that come with the IoT server are out-of-the-box support for well-known development boards such as Arduino UNO and Raspberry Pi and the ability to be extended to support any type of device through device agent implementations.
In this post we'll take a look at the Device Grouping functionality in IoT server 3.0.0. The WSO2 EMM product already provided means to group users based on roles (this is because WSO2 products use role-based authentication). For example all managers could be assigned the Manager role. It was then possible to apply policies and provision applications (Enterprise app installation) based on user roles. The IoT server goes one step forward by providing Device Grouping. With device grouping you can group a set of devices immaterial of the users or user-roles of the device owners. You can then apply policies to a specific device grouping.
Now the group has been created. You can add devices by either going to the device management console or by clicking Assign from My Devices in the group summary (this will also direct you to the device management console.
Click on the Select button, then click on the devices you want to add to select them, and then click Add To Group. You will be prompted with a drop-down to select the group to add the devices.
In this post we'll take a look at the Device Grouping functionality in IoT server 3.0.0. The WSO2 EMM product already provided means to group users based on roles (this is because WSO2 products use role-based authentication). For example all managers could be assigned the Manager role. It was then possible to apply policies and provision applications (Enterprise app installation) based on user roles. The IoT server goes one step forward by providing Device Grouping. With device grouping you can group a set of devices immaterial of the users or user-roles of the device owners. You can then apply policies to a specific device grouping.
Login to the device management console and go to Group Management
You will see a list of existing devices. By default the system would have created a grouping for all BYOD devices.
Click on Add Group to create a new group
Enter a Group Name and Description and click Add
Click on the Select button, then click on the devices you want to add to select them, and then click Add To Group. You will be prompted with a drop-down to select the group to add the devices.
Once you've added the devices they will show in the Device Group summary.
The device group summary also has options to search devices based on device name, owner, active status, platform and ownership (BYOD or COPE). Furthermore, the Advance Search option allows you to search by device location and by advance search parameters such as Device model, Vendor, OS version, internal memory, SSID, CUP Usage etc. and allows AND & OR operators in the search query.
