Policies enable an organisation to enforce its business rules. The policies are specific to the companies business needs.

Some of the policies include but not limited to;

  1. Idle device lock

This feature enables the MDM application to lock an idle device. This basically means that if a device is left idle or unattended for a period of time, the user will be locked out and the user will be required to login again to be able to access the app.

2. Enable Location Tracking

This feature determines if location tracking should be enabled for a device. Once this policy is turned on for a device(s), the MDM admin is able to see the device' location at all times.

3. Location tracking interval

This policy determines the frequency with which to retrieve device location and calculate geofence.

4. Enforce Geofence

This policy determines if a user should be allowed to login to the device or not if the user is outside of their geofence

Policies can be mapped to devices or a group of devices. To map policies to a device, follow these steps.

  1. Navigate to the policies module

Fig. 1 - List of policies available

2. View details of a policy and map the policy to a device

Fig. 2 - Details of Policy

3. View the list of devices not mapped to the policy

On the “Devices” page, the user is able to see a list of devices that have not been mapped to the policy. Check the box by the device you intend to map to the policy. You can also check the “Apply policy to all devices” box to map all the devices to the policy

Fig. 3 - List of devices not mapped to the policy

3. View the device groups that have been mapped to the policy

This tab holds a list of all the groups that have been mapped to the policy. It is important to note here that only groups hat have been mapped to this policy will appear on this tab. The user is able to select a group from the list of groups available within their organization.

Fig. 4 - List of devices mapped to a group

3(b) Map groups to a policy

To map a group to a policy, select “device groups” drop down at the top right of the page. The user will be able to select a group from a list of groups available and then click on “map group” to map the group to the policy

Fig. 5 - Add groups to a policy

4. View devices mapped to a policy

On this tab, the user is able to view the list of devices that have been mapped to the policy. From this page, they can also deactivate the policy for the device.

Fig. 6 - List of devices mapped to the policy

4(b). Select the option to deactivate policy for a device

When a policy is deactivated for a device. The device is no longer bound by that policy. If for instance the “Enforce Geofence policy” is deactivated for a device, a user will be able to use the device even when they are outside their geofence.

Fig. 7 - Deactivate policy for a device