A report to determine device usage

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RM

I've been asked to find out how often devices are being used to determine if they have over/under ordered for the warehouse.  I am not seeing anything relevant when poking through the reports and the closest thing I can see is using custom data collection which logs who is logged into the WMS app we are using, which would not make an easy to read report.

Is there anything already setup like this that can be utilizied?

4 years ago
SOTI MobiControl
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ANKMOD@SOTI
4 years ago

Hello Ryan

Greetings

Thanks for Posting to Soti Central !!

Kindly confirm if you are using custom data collection report under Reports>Device Reports (Flat View)>Custom Data Collection to collect the desired data and share the screenshot if possible ,  about how you are seeing that information.

Kind Regards,

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Raymond Chan Diamond Contributor
4 years ago

Different use cases may have different ways to define when a device is considered IDLE.  So, the analysis algorithm likely needs to be custom defined and implemented.

There are at least two approaches you can pursue :

1. Capture "foreground activity" information using MobiControl data-collection rule, and use custom analysis script to report usage based on the bundle-ID patterns (e.g. some bundle ID patterns are classified as device being non IDLE)  of the data collected.

2. Build your own app or modify one from some open-source app that captures per-app usage statistics over predefined period of time in the past.  Add extra codes to have analyzed data/statistics writen to am .ini or .xml file for a MobiControl data-collection rule to retrieve.  

RM
Ryan Miller
4 years ago
Yes the custom report works, but formatting is terrible so I am working with some folks here to get a PowerBI report created. Thanks for your help!