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Tracking the Locations of Devices

A location history is maintained for each device that returns location data. Mobile Device Management provides two methods of collecting location data for devices.

  • Get Current Location - If you only need to know the location of a device "on demand" then select a device and click the Get Current Location button. This button is available on the Device Status, Locate Multiple Devices and Track a Single Device pages.
  • Enable Tracking - When tracking is enabled for a device, the device keeps of log of its movements from one location to next. Location entries are filtered, based on the parameters specified for the device by its Device Settings Profile.

Real time tracking is not supported. A filtered set of location data points is uploaded to the Mobile Device Management module only when the Kaseya Agent app on the device checks in. Whichever method of location data collection you choose, the results are displayed on a map using the following two pages: