Dynamic Groups
Atera has a bunch of monitoring points and data it collects about an endpoint. I'd like to use that data to create dynamic groups. Essentially what I'm looking for is a way to create a group based on the filters available on the Devices page. When an endpoint meets the criteria of the group (or Device page search criteria), it should automatically become a member of the group I defined. When that same endpoint no longer meets the criteria of the group, it should be removed. These groups should be treated like the folders that are currently available, in that they can have Thresholds and IT Automation Policies applied to them, but these groups should NOT be tied to customers only - that should be specified in the group criteria.
David Yoder
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Jose Cerna
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I am new to Atera, and still getting to know all the features. We use devices attributes in intune like group tag. We already have dynamic groups for users and computers in Azure so those syncing to Atera would help. However it would be amazing as an example have Atera move a device to a site based on attributes or group. Then use either one to trigger an actions like a script.
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George
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This would be so useful to patching and running scripts as with Win 11 21H2 going EOL if there was a dynamic group these machines could easily be upgraded to the latest version but at the minute i have to do each on manually because if i turn on upgrade windows 11 that will upgrade all the win 10 machines to Win 11, which we're not at a place to do yet.
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David Yoder
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Here's a good use case:
If I have a client that has my full package, I'll want to make sure they have my anti-malware package in addition to the RMM agent. To do this, I'll want to make a group that automatically adds computers which do not have the anti-malware software installed. Now when an endpoint becomes a member of this group I want Atera to run a script that I specify (this would be to install the anti-malware software). This way, I don't have to worry about whether endpoints have the software because it's being actively deployed precisely when it's required. Set it up and forget it.
This is such a big component of automation in the RMM space that so many overlook.
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David Yoder
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These groups can then be used to bill for devices when generating invoices.