Devices

Before you begin

Access to this application is controlled by the role that your administrator assigns to you. If your role does not grant the application, it does not appear in the side navigation, and the actions described in this topic are unavailable or dimmed.

• Your role must grant access to this application. Device Explorer is a default application, so every role has at least view access to it. See Managing Roles.
• Your role also defines the device scope, so you see only the devices that your role can manage. See Managing Roles.
• Your operator permissions determine which actions you can complete. For a description of each permission, see Permissions reference.

Device Explorer – Overview page

The Overview page provides a high-level summary of your device environment through quick links and interactive charts. Use it to monitor device health, reporting status, remediation needs, and group distribution before you drill down into individual device data.

The top-right corner includes an Export (share) icon that exports the current page data and a Device groups icon that opens the Device Groups page. For more information, see Device Groups.

Quick links

The Quick links section at the top of the page provides fast access to commonly monitored device conditions. Each tile shows a count.

Charts

The Charts section presents high-level metrics as interactive chart widgets.

Each chart has a See data in data table format with download options icon in its top-right corner. Select it to view the chart's data as a table that you can copy or export. for more information, see Viewing chart data in a table.

Device Explorer – List view page

The List view page is the central workspace for managing and monitoring the endpoints in your environment. Use it to view inventory data in a customizable table, build charts from device properties, and run administrative actions on one or more devices. The page is organized into a view and utility bar, a collapsible Charts section, a command bar, and the device list table.

View and utility bar

The view and utility bar in the top-right corner manages the overall display and reporting features.

Filter

The Filter icon (funnel) in the view and utility bar opens the global filter for the page. The global filter narrows the device list table to the devices that match the conditions you define, and it also drives the chart interactions described in Filtering devices from a chart.

You can save the filters that you build, so that you can reuse them without defining the same conditions again. From the Filter panel, you can save a filter under a name of your choice, list your saved filters, mark the ones you use most as favourites, apply a saved filter to the current view, and delete the filters that you no longer need. Saved filters are private to your account, and the filters that you save here apply to devices only.

For the steps to build, save, apply, and manage your filters, see Global filter.

Charts

The collapsible Charts section creates and displays custom visualizations from device inventory data. A badge next to the title, such as 0 charts set or 1 chart set, shows how many charts are defined. For the steps to create a chart and to edit, delete, or export the charts you build, see Configuring and managing device charts.

Charts are interactive and work together with the Global Filter and the device list table. For the steps to filter the device list table from a chart, see Filtering devices from a chart.

Command bar

The command bar, directly above the table, is the primary area for adjusting the table and acting on devices.

Select action

The Select action dropdown provides the following commands for the selected devices.

Device list table

The device list table displays details about the discovered devices in your environment. Select a device's Computer Name to open its Device Details page.

Each column header includes a sort icon: select it once to sort ascending, again to sort descending, and again to clear the sort. The table can include the following columns.

Manage columns

Select Column in the command bar of the List view page to open the Manage columns drawer. The drawer lists only Reserved, Derived, Custom, Active Analysis, and External properties. For each property, it shows the Category, the Analysis it comes from, and the Sitename.

1. Above the table, select Column. The Manage columns drawer opens.
2. Optional: In Search by property name, enter a property name to narrow the list.
3. Optional: Turn on View selected only to list just the properties that you already selected.
4. Select the checkbox next to each property that you want to display as a column, and clear the checkbox for each property that you want to hide. The counter above the list, such as 14 of 143 items, shows how many properties are selected.
   Note:

   You can display a maximum of 63 columns.
5. Select Save. The table updates to show the columns that you selected.

   To close the drawer without applying your changes, select Cancel or the Close (X) icon.