Preparing Your Devices

Abstract

Device Tags are one of the most underutilized features for sorting and filtering devices. Not only are tags useful in Control Hub, but they are also extremely beneficial when working with the Webex RESTful APIs, providing one of the most effective ways to filter devices. In this lab you are only adding tags to one device but the method is the same for multiple devices.

Tip

Add as many tags in this exercise as you please. They will help you identify your pod's device in later labs. Hint, a pod"yourPodNumber" tag may be handy. In the real world you could add a tag for each of the following:

- Country
- State 
- City
- Building
- Room
- Product

Using tags in the manner gives you better control over deployments. Imagine an issue is occuring but only on Room Bars. Now you have a tag to run a command using CE-Deploy(which you will see in a later lab) that will only affect those devices.

dep-1.1 Lab

dep-1.1.1 Login to the lab's Control Hub with your admin credentials

Login to Control Hub.

dep-1.1.2 Select Management>Devices

dep-1.1.3 Select your lab device(Room Bar or Desk Pro)

Tip

In this lab we are only configuring the one device but if you needed to supply the same tag to multiple devices it would be at this stage you would just continue selecting more devices before selecting edt.

dep-1.1.4 Select Edit

dep-1.1.5 The Edit tag page will now allow you to set as many tags as you need. For this lab we will be using the tag wbx"yourPodNumber". As an example wbx01. Also add the tag -> webexRocks.

dep-1.1.6 Select Add tag

dep-1.1.7 Add wbx"YourPodNumber" and press enter. Repeat for the tag webexRocks and press enter.

dep-1.1.8 Select Close to close the Edit tags page.

dep-1.1.9 Close the edit configurations popout and return to the main devices page.

dep-1.1.10 In the Find by devices dialog box type Tags: then enter the device tag previously set.

Success

While this may seem rather insignificant with just one or two devices, if you where deploying 100's or 1000's of endpoints this just makes finding your group of endpoints a whole lot easier. In a later lab we will use the wbx1 and your pod tag to do a deployment via the Rest API. This concludes deployment lab one. Now on to using templates.