Device and device group overview

The sections below include details about devices, device groups, and sub-groups.

Devices

Each device that you purchase that can connect to Digi Axess is added to your Digi Axess by the Digi support team. When you log into Digi Axess, you can view the devices from the Digi Axess map or, if you have Digi Axess Admin privileges, from the Digi Axess Admin page.

You can associate each device with one device group.

Device groups

A master device group is available by default in your Digi Axess. This ensures that if a device group is needed when using a feature, one is available even if you decide not to create or use device groups.

If you decide to use device groups, Digi recommends that you make a plan of your device group hierarchy before you begin creating device groups. This may help you determine the purpose for your device groups and decide how many levels you need and which devices and users should be attached to each device group.

Device sub-groups

A device sub-group is a way to further categorize devices within a device group. Device groups and sub-groups are assigned to both devices and user profiles, and these work together to create a way to limit device access to a set of users within a device group.

Note A device sub-group name is entered as free-form text. Be sure you remember the sub-group names you have entered and enter it correctly for other devices or user profiles. This ensures that you don't accidentally create undesired sub-groups due to a misspelling.

Example

You have a device group named REGIONS, and you have devices in that group that are located in New York and in California.

Within the REGIONS device group, you want users in New York to have access to only the devices in New York, and users in California to have access to only the devices in California. You can create an EAST sub-group for New York and a WEST sub-group for California.

• EAST sub-group: For each device in New York AND for each user profile in New York, you would select the REGIONS device group, and enter EAST as the device sub-group.

• WEST sub-group: For each device in California AND for each user profile in California, you would select the REGIONS device group, and enter WEST as the device sub-group.

Result

The users in the REGIONS device group and WEST sub-group can only see devices that are in the same device group/sub-group combination.

The users in the REGIONS device group and EAST sub-group can only see devices that are in the same device group/sub-group combination.

Using sub-groups in a device group hierarchy

Sub-groups are recognized within a device group hierarchy as well. User profiles assigned to a device group and sub-group in a parent device group can only see devices in any child device group that are assigned the same device group/sub-group combination.

Example

The REGIONS device group is a child group under the WORLD device group.

Result

User profiles assigned to the WORLD device group and the WEST sub-group can see devices assigned to the WEST sub-group in both the WORLD and REGIONS device groups.

User profiles assigned to the WORLD device group and the EAST sub-group can see devices assigned to the EAST sub-group in both the WORLD and REGIONS device groups.