Managing Mobile Devices

The SAS Visual Analytics Mobile Devices application is easy to use. To perform tasks such as viewing, sorting, filtering, or blacklisting a mobile device:

Log on to SAS Visual Analytics Administrator.
Select the Mobile Devices tab.
On the Mobile Devices tab, select Logon History.
To sort the items in the columns in either ascending or descending order, click the column heading for any column on this page.
To filter and view selected data about mobile devices:
1. From the Filter menu, select an item (for example, Device Type). Then, enter a valid value in the field (for example, iPad), and click Apply.
  
  The value that you specified for the filter determines the type of data that is displayed.
2. To view the entire history of events (for example, various application versions that were used by devices) associated with the item that you specified in the Filter, field, select the Include Device History check box.
To add a mobile device to the blacklist:
1. Click Manage Blacklist.
2. Click .
  
  You are prompted by the Add New Device ID window.
3. Enter the device ID and click OK.
4. To view the blacklisted device, click Blacklist History.
  
  The mobile device is added to the list of blacklisted devices on the Blacklist History page. The Action column indicates the status of this device (whether it as blacklisted or not), and the Result column indicates whether your action was successful. Blacklisted mobile devices cannot be used to access the SAS Visual Analytics suite of applications.
To remove a mobile device from the blacklist, click Manage Blacklist.
On the Manage Blacklist page, select the device and click .
When prompted by a dialog box that asks you to confirm your action, click Yes.
To view blacklisted mobile devices or confirm that a device was blacklisted, click Blacklist History.
To search for a blacklisted mobile device either by the device ID or the administrator ID, click Manage Blacklist. Then, select Admin ID or Device ID from the drop-down menu for Filter. Click Apply.

The mobile devices that meet the criteria that you specified are displayed.

The following information is provided in the Blacklist History page.

Fields in the Blacklist History Page
Field	Description
Admin ID	User name of the administrator who blacklisted the device.
Device ID	Name of the blacklisted device.
Action	Type of action that was performed on the mobile device.
Result	Indicates whether the attempt to blacklist a mobile device was successful.
Timestamp	Displays the date and time when a specific mobile device was blacklisted.