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title:  Terminal Management
description: "Terminal Management is an extensive and powerful toolset that allows asset managers to configure attributes, set parameters, and even execute commands to control their terminals over the air for devices that support two-way communications and accept commands. To open the…"
url: "https://globalsatellite.us/Gsattrack  Documentation/terminal-management/"
updated: "2024-12-13"
category: Features
---

#  Terminal Management

Terminal Management is an extensive and powerful toolset that allows asset managers to configure attributes, set parameters, and even execute commands to control their terminals over the air for devices that support two-way communications and accept commands. To open the Terminal Management options of an Asset, click the gear icon in the List Panel for the Asset, and then select Edit Asset.

## Main

The Main section allows users to set and modify the Asset’s Attributes that were assigned when the Asset was created. These attributes include:

- Name
- Device ID Number (IMEI, MSID, etc)
- Sensitivity
- Icon
- Color

##  Groups

The Groups section allows users to manage the Groups to which the Asset belongs. A list of available groups will appear in a list, and those with a green check next to them will contain the Asset. Users can toggle the check marks on or off to add or remove the Asset from any number of Groups.

##  Users

The Users section allows admin users to manage the other users that have access to the Asset. Like the Groups page, the names of all portal users will appear in a list with a green check next to those who have access to the Asset. Admin users can toggle the check marks on or off to add or remove access for any number of Users.

##  Attributes

The Attributes section will have device-specific fields that can be filled in by the user in order to store pertinent information about the Asset in a single record. To see more about what each Attribute means, see the feature article on Attributes.

##  I/O

The I/O section allows users to configure I/O mapping for the device.

- **Analog tolerance**
  Voltage variance on remote terminal I/O pin to trigger a level change
- **I/O mapping template**
  Select from a drop down of templates in the portal, or manage templates to create one
- **Input - analog pin**
  Users have the option to manually insert the I/O map for the device

##  Driver

Users have the option of setting the Driver for the device from a drop-down list, or pulling driver information and status if any have logged into the asset.

##  Alerts

The Alerts section displays all Alerts that have been tied to the Asset and allows users to edit those Alerts or remove them from the list.

##  Settings

Each Asset has a number of Settings that can be configured and manipulated to display status in the portal. A number of these settings, if left unchanged by the portal operator, will be dynamic data from the Asset’s reporting activity if it has been configured to update its own Status and Settings with its messages to the portal.

- **Out of service**
  Toggle yes/no
- **Draw lines between positions**
  Visualization in map views, whether concurrent positions should have lines between them in Live Mode and History Mode; toggle yes/no
- **Snap lines to roads**
  Visualization in map views, whether lines from concurrent position reports should display direct path or if the portal should attempt to display the most likely roads used between them; toggle yes/no
- **Use GPS corrected magnetic course**
  Toggle yes/no
- **Suppress emergency alerts**
  Toggle yes/no
- **Popup incoming text messages**
  Visualization in portal, whether text messages from the device will open a pop up window in Live Mode or History Mode; Toggle yes/no
- **Message destination ID**
  Method for routing text messages between devices that do not support address books. Template is “{Destination ID}:{Message}”. A quick example is device A has an ID of “1” and device B has an ID of “2”, device A can send a message to device B by typing “2:hello device B”
- **Device password**
  Password to generate to mobile messages for authentication. Only specific devices require passwords for mobile terminated messages
- **Transmit encryption key**
  Encryption key for to-mobile messages, if device supports encryption and enabled
- **Hide information**
  Options to the user whether or not to hide the following information from reported positions in the portal
  - Accuracy
  - Address: turns off Reverse Geocoding that transforms lat/lng into addresses
  - Altitude
  - Heading
  - Speed
  - History flag icons
- **Spatial reference system**
  Select from a drop-down list of the sources of geolocation data
- **Clear asset history**
  Users can clear data reported by the asset
- **Current status information**
  Displays yes, no, or unknown as a status indication for each of the following pieces of information. Portal users can set these statuses for the device if they wish to use the information with other features. Programmable devices can be configured to update these statuses with each reported position or message. To view automatically updated Statuses, users can Reset and Refresh the Status.
  - Moving
  - Engine on
  - Speeding
  - Idling
  - Towing
  - Dwelling
  - In low power mode
  - Backup power
  - Antenna cut
  - GPS jammed
  - Cell jammed