Set up your Workspace dashboard

Use this guide when setting up your FocusMDM Dashboard for your workspace/company for the first time.
These steps must be followed before you enroll your devices.

Step-by-step guide

(5 min) workspace Settings

https://focus.dimagi.com/a/settings/workspace

1. Name

   1. Your company name that is also known as your workspace ID

2. Data Usage Threshold (in MB per month)

   1. This setting should equate with the monthly data plan assigned to each of your devices. I.e. 2GB/month = 2000 MB Data Usage Threshold

3. Active Device Threshold (in days)

   1. The frequency with which you expect your users to sync using the internet. I.e. Sync expectation is every 5 days, then Active Device Threshold = 5

   2. Devices that have not synced under this threshold will show as gray on the Device List and be considered "inactive" devices
      
      

   3. There are alert for devices that don't sync within 3 days or a week. This setting does not impact these alerts.

4. GPS plan (select an option)

   1. This setting should be determined by how accurate and frequent you want your GPS tracking data to be. I.e. Track device’s location every 5 minutes = 5 GPS Sampling Interval.

   2. The more accurate and frequent you track a device’s location, the more the battery life can be affected

   3. Select a GPS plan and the GPS Sampling interval and the GPS Accuracy will automatically set to useful numbers.

   4. The GPS Sampling Interval is the time period between which GPS location measurements are take. The value is in minutes. The higher the sampling interval is, the lower the battery consumption

   5. GPS Accuracy is expressed in meters. The higher the value is the lower the accuracy and the battery consumption. 

(1 min) Work Week Configuration

https://focus.dimagi.com/a/settings/workspace

Give your device users privacy by not tracking their location after work hours

1. Set Work days

2. Set Working time start

3. Set Working time end

(3 min) (Not required) Android For Work Setup

This is needed if you will use DO Mode and other advanced features of FocusMDM

See steps here

(3 min) (Not required) Device Groups

See steps here

(10 min) (Not required) App Groups

https://focus.dimagi.com/a/apps/groups

Click “+NEW GROUP” to create a new app group

1. A new app group can be created for any grouping of apps such as “Work apps”, “Entertainment apps”, “Blocked apps”, “Org 1 apps”, “Frontline apps” etc.

2. Setting App Groups ensures simplicity when creating Rules (below)

(10 min) (Not required) Enrollment Whitelist

This feature should be used if you want to restrict which devices can access and enroll into your workspace

See steps here

(20-30 min) (Not required) Set Rules

See steps here

1. Your essential Rules should be setup prior to enrolling devices because this will ensure all freshly enrolled devices will get the basic required rules propagated/applied to their devices, even if they have poor connectivity after being setup
   
   
   

Then perform the pre-enrollment setup

• Pre-enrollment setup for Basic Enrollment

• Pre-enrollment setup for Device Owner (DO) enrollments

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