Which new AX features are highest on your 2022 wishlist?

It would be nice to assign a device to a group based on a name

Support for tablets

Support for Tablets or Mobile Devices (Mobile - At Least Status / Alerts), Instructional / Overview Videos on the Automox API.

A custom timeout value for the console! I work alone in a secret underground bunker (WFH basement office), and would love to avoid logging back in every time I use Automox.

These are great, y’all - keep em coming! 

Show if AV on devices is up to date, show if devices storage is encrypted, API for link to seim / SOCaaS tools.

Have Group/subgroup targeting be quicker and easier

Additional Filtering on the Policies Page (Dashboard > Managed > Policies) similar to “Show Unused Policies”. For example the ability to set police status to: Production, Development, Staging / Testing -- and the ability to filter those polices on the Policies Page. 

The ability to setup Global Reboot Notifications for a Zone, rather than having to enter them for each policy. Also, a manual override would be great for those policies.

• The ability to set a patch window
  When patching you sometimes have “Followup” patches
   
• Vurnability report based on a Automox central database
  Seen several times that Automox report 100% compliant, but third party report several vurnabilities because of lacking patches
   
• Patches available and patches available from update source
  To see what you’re missing out on, might be faulty update source, might be faulty update services on endpoint

Ability to reboot the servers from the agent itself

Ability to search the Device view for the name/partial name of a piece of software and get back a list of devices that have it installed.

Custom scan frequency by group, policy, name (or part of a name), subnet, and/or OS. 

A chart similar to a flow chart able to be created on the fly depending on users preference.

By patch policy, group name, or an entire zone at a time (My personal preference is a Zone overview)

To make it easier on Automox, perhaps this can be a partnered integration with Lucidchart?

I would like an option on the Policy Management page to see a list of the devices that the policy applies to.  

In the Software screen, please only show items with impact > 0 by default, with a menu option to view others if desired.  A giant list of software that is not installed anywhere and not vulnerable is white noise that adds no value and wastes my time repeatedly sorting to get to the relevant items.

On the Software page, I like would a column to indicate if the software requires a reboot or not.

I would like a policy that allows me to specify software to install based on if it does or doesn’t require a reboot and or by number of days it has been available.  Specifically, I would like a policy to run daily that installs all updates that were released more than 24 hours ago and don’t require a reboot.  Similarly, I’d like a policy that runs weekly for updates that requires a reboot and were released more than 7 days ago.  We like to allow 7 days between release and install of Microsoft patches to minimize bugs introduced to the environment. 

I would like the ability to pull back files (for instance logs) from a group of machines.

in the software list for a specific device, i would like a “Days Exposed” column for available updates.  I can get the info if I switch back to the Software tab and search for that update but I’d like to see it in the device list too.

It would be very helpful if each menu option (Devices, Software, Manage, reports) was a separate tab within the Automox window that remains open and you can switch back and forth between them without losing your current view.  I would be happy to show an example of another app that work in this extremely efficient way.

Hi Moira

Not sure if you aware, but I can right click a menu option and open in a new tab using Chrome. Even a Device Detail page can be open in a separate tab.

Hi Mscro,

Yes, thanks, I can open different tabs in Chrome and I can bookmark them.  It is different and super efficient when everything is contained in the one window.  In a perfect world, you can save the entire window the way you like and it opens that way by default as a landing page upon logon.  

Groups being able it inherit policies would be super nice.

Access to the queue! If a policy or patch gets queued and is having an issue then it would be nice to be able to have that visibility. Or even to cancel something within the queue if it was added by mistake. 

@ TJ_Coppola YES!  

@ChadMc-Automox - Please do this First!!!!

Better graphs and counters on the dashboard. They can be misleading. When we see that low “up to date” percentage it gives us a false sense of alarm.

Also per policy graphs! If I create a policy it would be nice to see a graph to show progress on how many devices have applied it successfully. 

Yeah, that’s a good one! Fwiw, this entire thread gets shared with our “customer feedback” channel/Product team. 

Keep em comin’!! 

Active Directory sync, including details, and OUs. 
Flexible groups/ on the fly deployments. 

Better ways to troubleshoot connectivity issues towards third party resources. Currently we can only see connection time-out but not necessary why this is happening. Other great feature would be if connections for updates would be proxied by Automox so you only have to enable connection towards the automox platform or some sort of on-site proxy feature of automox that simply shapes and direct the traffic. 

• Machine Group permissions
• In endpoint view additional pane with its logs from the activity log.
• Worklets ability to assign run as account

@Wagnco01 +1 “In endpoint view additional pane with its logs from the activity log or at least a link to the report for that device.”

I would like to know the uptime of each device.  If not real-time, at least as of the last time it was scanned.

I have to go to disparate systems to get basic information about each device and to know if (or when) the Automox request to resart was successful.

It would be nice to be able to filter devices by a generic name (Either Starting with, or containing a character string)

i would like an easy and reliable way to manage Windows Store Apps.  If we allow automatic updates then unwanted non-business junk apps get installed.  If we don’t automtaically update them then we find ourselves with vulnerabilities. We use Powershell scripts to remove them but some are very persistent and don;t uninstall or return.  It would be helpful to have a platform that could inventory, update and remove them the way we do legacy desktop apps.

I believe this is possible already if I’m understanding you right. 

If you’re just trying to list the devices in your organization then typing a portion of a hostname should populate a list with all devices that include that string. 

If you’re attempting to create a policy that only applies to devices with a particular string in their hostname I believe you accomplish that with Device Targeting. You would specify a hostname as a filter and set it to “like any,” and specify the hostname string.

Has anyone actually done this and or can confirm?

Something small, but important (to me at least) 😃

Change the time-out access on the console...I am a stickler for security like everyone else, but being able to choose from a few timeout options will stop me from muttering every 30 minutes or so.

I’d love to drop into a shell on the endpoint directly from the console.

• Activity log accessible via API
• Command queue visibility
• Custom attributes that can be set via worklet
• Better worklet testing/development process

When on a device details page - also see a listing of recent activities from the activity log for that device.  Great for when you’re troubleshooting issues or user complaints (like it keeps asking me to apply patches).