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Currently if you have multiple devices that are for the same person, there is no way to report on the person just the device.

For example, if at home you are leveraging ctrld daemon to configure your router all devices appear under that device. This is great from a reporting standpoint because you can see the sum of all those parts. However, if you want to apply different policies you need to link that device to a "device" within ControlD and apply that custom policy. Lets assume that device is an iPhone or iPad. In order to leverage that device when off of the wifi you can leverage the controld application to configure it to leverage the same profile.

But what if you want a one to many configuration. For instance, lets say "Jimmy" has a laptop, iPhone, and iPad and you want to have the same policy apply to all of his computing devices whether at home on wifi, or mobile. Today you can't create a "Device" called Jimmy's Devices and attach a profile called Jimmy's Profile that would allow you to link all three devices when on home wifi to that same "device".

The same situation applies when a device has multiple connections, i.e. wired and wireless. They do not link together when leveraging controld you would have to create 2 devices to get the same policy appiled.

Essentially it would be nice if you could link multiple mac addresses to a device within controld so that it will pick up multiple physical devices.