Location Management

Avalanche uses locations in order to organize devices, users, and settings. Avalanche lets you organize devices in group locations to make them easier to manage. Locations are organized in the Location View, which can be accessed by clicking the Location View button:

Location View button

Folders tab of the Location View

Avalanche installs a mobile device server during the installation process. The server is automatically placed at My Location. In order to organize devices, users, and settings, you can create sub-locations under My Location. These sub-locations are called group locations.

Avalanche uses selection criteria to determine which devices belong to each group location. For example, if Group A has the selection criterion: ModelName = ITCCK30, any Intermec CK30 devices automatically appear in the Group A inventory as well as the server location inventory. A device can belong to more than one group location concurrently.

Each user and profile has a home location. A user will be able to access items associated with his home location and any sub-locations. A profile will be available at its home location and inherited by any sub-locations. Profiles can be excluded from sub-locations so that they are not applied, however. When a profile is created, the home location is set by default to the location you currently have selected.

This section describes how to manage locations and provides information about the following topics:

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