Overview
The Radix Device Management Platform has a Search bar, which allows you to search for devices by the Device ID, the username, the tags associated with a device, and much more. But perhaps you wish to access the same set of devices again and again. For this purpose, there is also the Search Filter feature, which allows you to filter devices by a number of criteria. You can create and save a new search filter to narrow down the search results for future searches as well.
Creating a Filter
To create a device filter:
1. In the Devices Table, click on the Filter Devices icon near the Search bar.
Figure 1: Filter devices icon in the Devices Table
The Filter Options window opens. If you are filtering the devices by the tags employed, email address, model, hardware ID, IMEI, device name, or Public IP, you’ll see a dropdown list of filter criteria. You can use it to narrow down the search using a wide range of conditions.
Figure 2: Filter Options window
The following table summarizes all of the filter criteria. Currently, there are 21 conditions that you can use to filter devices:
| Search Criterion | Description |
|---|---|
| Tag | Will filter by tags (= identifying names) that can be applied to a device (either by the agent or server-side) and can describe the essence of the device. |
| App with version | Will filter devices by a specific software app. You’ll have to supply the software package name and its version number. |
| App not installed | Will filter devices by apps that are not on the device. |
| Will filter devices by their main email account on the device. | |
| Model | Will filter by the model of the device. |
| Last seen | Will filter by the number of days that the device was seen connected and online. |
| Policy/Kiosk | Will filter by the software policy that is applied to the device. Software policies are a list of apps that are blocked from the device, while Kiosk mode is a list of apps that are allowed on the device. |
| Available internal storage (in MB) | The amount of available space presently on the device. |
| OS Version | Operating system version (number). |
| Hardware ID | The internal hardware ID, which is typically represented by the MAC Address. |
| IMEI | Will filter by the International Mobile Equipment Identity number, which is unique for every mobile device. |
| Name | Will filter by the name applied to the device. |
| Public IP | Will filter devices by their IP address. |
| OS | Will filter by the device’s operating system (Android, Windows, ChromeOS). |
| WLAN MAC address | Will filter by the device’s wireless MAC address |
| Ethernet MAC address | Will filter by the device’s Ethernet MAC address |
| Firmware version | Will filter devices by their firmware version |
| Time Zone | Will filter devices by their time zone |
| Battery Status | Can be set to filter devices if their battery level is above or below a certain value |
| Serial (windows) | Filters Windows devices by their serial number |
| Antivirus | Filters devices by the antivirus installed |
2. Supply the conditions of your search. You can chain together several search conditions, as well as whether the search results must fulfill all of the conditions (AND), or only one of them (OR).
The following table explains all of the conditions:
| Filter Criterion | Description |
|---|---|
| Is | Requires that the search result be exactly like the string you enter. If you search for the string “teacher”, only those devices with the tag “teacher” will appear. However, “teachers” or “Teacher” will not appear in the search. |
| Startswith | Requires that the search result only start with the string that you enter |
| Endswith | Requires that the search result only end with the string that you enter |
| Contains | Requires that the search result only contain the string that you enter |
| Doesn’t exist | Will display all devices without the specific search criterion: for example, it will display all devices without tags. |
| Exclude | Will display all devices without the specified criterion. For example, it will exclude all devices with the tag “new”. |
Also, you can combine several types of search criteria, separated by “AND” or “OR” operators, to further refine the search results.
In the example below, the search filter uses three criteria. The filter displays only 1) Windows devices that 2) contain the string “teacher” within one of their tags, and 3) have been used within the last 1500 days.
3. Click Apply Filter to display those devices in the group that satisfy the filter conditions. The results of our search are as follows:
The search displays all Windows devices that 1) have the tag “teachers laptops”, and also 2) were last seen within the last 1500 days.
Saving a Filter
1. Click Save Filter at the bottom of the Filters pane to save the search conditions. A Save Filter window pops up, prompting you to supply a name for the filter. If you don’t name the filter, it will retain the name as displayed (showing the search criteria you have chosen):
2. Click on the Set as Private button if you want the search option to only appear to you (as the creator of the filter item) when you are using the Radix Device Management interface.
3. Click Save to save the filter you have created. You will get a notification that the filter was saved successfully.
4. If you try to save a filter with the same name as an existing filter, you will get an error message:
Retrieving a Saved Search Filter
To retrieve a saved search filter:
1. Open the Devices Table and click on the Filter Devices icon to open the Filter Devices pane.
2. Click Browse saved at the top of the Filters pane to view all saved filter options.
The Saved Filters pane opens.
3. You can enter the filter name in the Search bar under Saved Filters. The new filter will appear in the search.
4. Click on the filter to apply it immediately to the Devices Table:
Also, you will notice four icons next to the saved filter:
The options have the following functions:
| Icon | Description |
| Edit Details, to change the filter parameters | |
| Duplicate, to duplicate the filter option | |
| Delete, to delete the filter option from the list | |
| Filter Actions, to open a drop-down menu of options |
Removing a Search
To stop the search filter and view all of the devices again, click on the “X” next to the current filter criteria, or click on Clear Filters:
The Devices Table will display the “All” group, with all the devices, as before the search.
A Practical Example
As a practical example, we will use the search function to create groups of devices.
For example, some devices contain the tag “Class_A”, while other devices contain the tag “Class_B”, and some contain both tags. We have four possible options:
- - Option A: To create a group to filter all devices that have the tag Class_A only
It gives us the following search result:
- - Option B: To create a group to filter all devices that have the tag Class_B only
It gives the search result:
- - Option C: To create a group to filter all devices that have the tag Class_A or the tag Class_B:
This search filter produces the following results:
- - Option D: To create a group to filter all devices that have the tags Class_A and Class_B
The search results will appear as follows: