IoT Security Devices Page
The Devices page in the IoT Security portal displays
an inventory of discovered devices.
This page is where you can see an inventory
of all the devices that were discovered or are being monitored and
the device profiles applied to them. There are three sections on
this page: filters to control what data appears on it, a high-level
summary of the devices on your network, and the device inventory table.
At the top of the page are filters to control the data displayed
by site, monitoring status (Monitored Devices or Discovered Devices),
device type, and time period. This same set of global filters is
at the top of the Devices page and the Dashboard. Whatever global
filters you set in one section persists when you navigate to the
other. These filters control what to display and what to download.
Whatever is currently active is what you save when you click the 
)
Download
icon
(
) > Download
.
There are two other options in the Download menu. Clicking
Create report
opens
a new browser window or tab in which you can configure one of the
following types of scheduled reports: Summary, Risk, New Device,
and Filtered Inventory. Clicking Download change log
and selecting
two dates generates a CSV-formatted file that compares changes in
your device inventory on your two selected dates. IoT Security checks
and reports changes in data fields such as category, profile, profile
vertical, OS group, device model, IP address, and subnet.Clicking the pie chart or clicking content in the table lets
you view device data at multiple levels of granularity.
At the top of the inventory table is a search tool, which allows
you to search for device names. You can search for a full or partial
match. If you employ a naming convention that identifies all devices
by function, location, or some other characteristic, this allows
you to search by that part of the name shared by all the devices
in a particular grouping.
There is also a tool for creating custom filters that control
what is IoT Security displays in the Inventory table. To create
and apply a new filter or to apply a previously created filter,
click the 
).
Filter
icon (
).In the Filters dialog box that appears, select a previously defined
and saved filter or click in the
Create a new filter
field
and choose a device characteristic by which you want to filter devices.
Enter a value for the characteristic you want to use to filter
devices.
Decide if you want to include global filters in your custom filter
or not. When you select
Include global filter data
,
you can control the global filters for sites, device types, and
time whenever you apply the custom filter you are defining. Your
custom filter can use either the current global filters or, if you modify
them in the settings, the modified global filters. If you do not
select Include global filter data
, your custom
filter will use whatever global filters happen to be in effect at
the time you apply it.
Click the star icon to save the filter for future use. Click
Apply
to
use it to filter the contents of the Inventory table now.You can rearrange the columns in the device inventory table by
click-dragging column headings into different locations.
You can also change which columns appear in the table. Click
the
Columns
icon (three vertical bars), select
the names of the columns you want to see, and clear the ones you
want to hide. The columns with selected check boxes appear and those
with cleared check boxes do not. Use the search tool to find column
headings quickly.
To return to the default set of columns,
Reset to default
.If you select the check box for one or more devices, the Download
and Edit buttons appear.
When you click
Edit
, a dialog box opens
where you can change the device type between IoT and Traditional
IT and define other device characteristics: category, profile, vendor,
model, OS family, OS version, location, asset tag, serial number,
user tags, and description.When you edit a device manually and change any of its attributes,
your change is considered definitive and won't be overwritten. Therefore,
be careful when manually editing a device because you're locking
in your edits.
Whenever you manually edit a device, the modifications are fed
into machine learning. If IoT Security determines the input is valid,
it retrains its models with the added or modified data and propagates
the results to all its customers. IoT Security then applies its
revised models to other devices of the same type in all customer environments.
If you type something in the category field, and there isn’t
an existing category, a “Request New Category” option appears.
Use this option to request that IoT Security create a new category
for the device. If the request is validated, then the category is
added—not just for the person requesting it but for all IoT Security
customers.
When you select multiple devices to edit, a table appears at
the bottom of the dialog box for convenience. It displays the current
values for your selections. If you mistakenly selected one that
you don’t want, you can spot it here.
