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Device Actions

Device Actions are all of the "actions" or "commands" that you can execute against an endpoint from the FileWave WebAdmin. Actions are taken from the (...) button in the Devices view, or from the detail view of any particular device.

Having inventory devices is never quite enough. We will frequently want to do something to the devices in the field immediately, and the Actions list is a way to do that. Note that all actions have some degree of pre-requisite...i.e the device might need to be supervised, or a certain command can't work if the device is BYOD user enrolled for instance. Some pre-requisites are accounted for in the UI and those commands won't show if not applicable. For instance, Wipe Device won't show if the device happens to be user enrolled.

Device Actions Overview

What Device Actions are all of the "actions" or "commands" that you can execute against an endpo...

Clear Activation Lock

What The Clear Activation Lock command removes an Activation Lock that has been imposed on a dev...

Clear Passcode

What The Clear Passcode command is used to remove the current passcode that is assigned to a dev...

Clear Restrictions Passcode

What The Clear Restrictions Passcode command is used to remove a passcode that has been set to p...

Copy to Group

What A device can have many clones/alias/copies in many groups  When/Why Use this function to ...

Edit Device Fields

What A device can have many fields both custom and built-in. When/Why Use this option when a s...

Lock Device

What An iOS device can be locked using FileWave Anywhere.  Locking a device is the same as if yo...

Move to Group

What The Move to Group command is similar to the Copy to Group command, but Move to Group will m...

Performing Actions on Multiple Devices

What We are pleased to announce that in version 14.5+ of the FileWave WebAdmin console, you can ...

Remove from Group

What The "Remove from Group" command is what you might remember from the native FileWave admin a...

Remove from System

What The "Remove from System" command is what you might remember from the native FileWave admin ...

Rename

What The "Rename" command as the name implies is a command for renaming a device.  The behavior ...

Restart (Windows)

What Starting from FileWave version 14.7+ we added support for remotely rebooting a Windows syst...

Send Verify Command

What The Send Verify command is one of the most frequently used commands because it is such an e...

NAT Support for Client Monitor/Verify

What Especially with devices being remote from a corporate or school network more and more, it i...

Set Tracking Mode

What Device tracking, or Tracking Mode is used to find the geolocation of managed devices.  Sett...

Wipe Device

What The command name of "Wipe Device" is probably warning enough, but this command is a destruc...

Windows MDM Wipe Command

What 14.8+ FileWave introduces the option to Wipe MDM enrolled Windows devices from the Web Admi...