Building Signal Policy Conditions

About this task

Set conditions for Signal policies in SOTI MobiControl. You can select categories, specify attributes, and define values. Additionally, combine conditions using logical operators and define the actions the Signal policy executes when meeting these conditions.

Procedure

  1. In the Conditions step of the Create Signal Policy dialog box, select Add Condition to add a condition to your first condition group.
    1. Select a Category for your condition from the following options.
      Selecting a category.
      • Managed Device: Devices enrolled in SOTI MobiControl.
        Important: Supported managed devices can evaluate specific Managed Device properties at a defined frequency. This enables Signal policies to be much more responsive, as earlier SOTI MobiControl versions required device check-ins with the server to evaluate Signal policies and trigger actions. See Configuring Signal Policy Settings for more details.
      • Management Server: Properties and events related to the SOTI MobiControl management server.
      • Deployment Server: Properties and events related to the SOTI MobiControl deployment server.
      • Profile: Add a profile.
      • System: Select a system.
      • Policy: Add a policy.
      • User and Group: Add user and group conditions.
      In SOTI MobiControl 2024.0 and later versions, you can build a condition using Custom Data for the Managed Device category. See Using Custom Data for more information.
    2. Specify a Type, enabling you to select condition attributes based on:
      • Property: Details of devices, servers, or location zones such as available memory, server name, or device count (within a zone).
      • Event: Details of common events in the daily operation of devices, servers, or location zones, such as SIM card inserted or deployment server stopped.
    3. When selecting a property and an attribute, select an operator (such as Starts With or Is) and enter a value to build the condition.
      For example, you can create a condition that monitors a managed device with available memory less than 2 GB.
      Selecting an operator

    4. Select Add to add your condition to the list of conditions.
    5. When creating a Managed Device category condition, select Select Device Groups to watch at least one device group.
  2. Repeat step one to add more conditions as required.
    Tip: Hover over the existing condition rows to edit or delete them.
  3. If you add more than one condition, you can change the dropdown menu, X of these conditions must be satisfied, such that X is one of the following options:
    • ALL: All conditions listed must evaluate to True for the Signal policy to trigger. This sets up an AND style condition set. For example:
      • Device Battery < 10% AND Device Memory < 1 GB
    • ANY: Any of the conditions listed must evaluate to be True for the Signal policy to trigger. This sets up an OR style condition set. For example:
      • Device Battery < 10% OR Device Memory < 1 GB
        Selecting a criteria to evaluate multiple conditions.
  4. Select New Group to add a new group of conditions to combine with those already added. Later groups can feature different categories.
  5. When adding more than one group of conditions, set the Grouped Conditions to Trigger Actions Must Include dropdown menu to ANY or ALL described in step three.
    For example, for condition groups A, B, C, D, and E:
    • Select ANY to set up an OR style condition set between the condition groups: [(A AND B AND C) OR (D AND E)]
    • Select ALL to set up an AND style condition set between the condition groups: [(A OR B OR C) AND (D OR E)]

What to do next

Once you have specified your conditions, select Next to add actions to your policy that trigger upon evaluation. See Adding Signal Policy Actions.