Overview
The Radix Device Management Platform allows creating a group of devices. Once you have created a group, you can execute commands to all devices in the group with a single command. You can decide to display identical content on all of the devices at once. Or perhaps you will want to limit the devices’ Internet access to only a few select URLs. You can create a group by assigning an identifying tag to each device in a group. We will go through the steps of creating a group, as well as adding devices to the group.
Accessing the Groups Pane
Creating a group of devices is done in the Groups pane. It is usually open by default when we access the Devices Console.
To open the Groups pane:
1. Click on Devices in the sidebar menu to open the Devices table in the Radix Device Management Platform.
2. Click on the Groups icon at the top of the Devices Table to open the Groups window (if it is not open already):
Creating a New Device Group
1. In the Groups window, click on the “Add group” icon to create a new group.
The Create new group window opens.
2. Assign a name and description to the group.
3. Under the Tags tab, assign a descriptive tag to the group, which will serve to identify devices in the group. In the example below, we have assigned the tag “rbp” to be the identifying tag for devices in the group “rbp group”.
4. Click Save to save the group.
Adding Devices to a Group
Initially, the group that we have created has no devices associated with it. We associate devices with the group by assigning the group’s tag to specific devices.
1. Assign the tag for that group to a device. The device will immediately be a member of the group. In our example, we assigned the tag rbp to the Windows device 64497DEFBE1A.
2. If we check our group rbp group again, we will see that device 64497DEFBE1A is a member of the group.
3. If you want to add more devices to the group, simply add the same identifying tag to those devices as well.