Location items represent the managed organisation's physical locations in Miradore Management Suite. For example, you might want to create Location items separately for each of your branch offices depending on what kind of intentions you have in mind for managing the IT resources of different locations.
This section presents some examples of the benefits that are gained when users and asset configuration items are bound to Locations items in Miradore Management Suite.
You can generate Location-specific reports. For example, you can see what devices and users are assigned to a certain location.
Location items also have a very important role in mapping the nearest installation point that is used in initial installations and package installations. When assets and installations points have been appropriately assigned to correct locations, Miradore Management Suite is able to use the nearest installations point to retrieve installation media, which speeds up the installations and balances the network burden.
When managed devices are assigned to appropriate location items, it is also very easy take care that all regional demands like time zones, keyboard layouts, and language preferences are taken into account when operating systems and software are installed to the managed computers.
Similarly like organisation items, also location items can be used widely in scope controls throughout Miradore Management Suite in order to define many kind of location-specific settings and permissions. You can, for example, use locations together with subnet items to configure automated power-on and power-off times for all computers that are assigned to a certain location. This is a powerful power-saving feature especially in public organizations, where computers are mostly used at day time.
The locations can be arranged into hierarchy. There are no limitations of the depth of a location hierarchy. The child locations inherit by default the settings from the parent level. In case the same setting is defined in both child and parent location, the child setting overwrites. In case packages are defined on both child and parent levels then all the packages are installed in bottom-up order.
Location items can be created by System editors or Administrators. Only active locations can be chosen to the asset configuration item page. There are also "Selectable for assets" and "Selectable for users" settings at the Location item, which can be used to define whether it is allowed or denied to assign assets and users to the particular location.
Tab name |
Description |
Main |
The configuration item attributes and values. Description of location item attributes |
Event log |
All events related to the item are recorded and represented here. |
Bindings |
Asset bindings: Here you can analyze the assets assigned to this location item. You can also analyze the bindings history (added/removed assets in a time frame). User bindings: Here you can analyze the users assigned to this location item. |
Analyze |
This tab can used for tracking and troubleshooting package distributions. With the view tasks, it is possible to wake up Miradore clients in the target assets, and also to clear package distributions that are stuck. |
Task |
Description |
Change status > Activate |
Only users with the administrator or editor role can activate location items with this task. In addition, users with the web service writer role can activate location items over the Miradore Management Suite web service API. |
Remove |
Only users with the administrator or editor role can remove location items with this task. In addition, users with the web service writer role can remove location items over the Miradore Management Suite web service API. |