Auxiliary Rules
Overview
Auxiliary rules allow you to manage connected external input devices and sensors to
the Geotab GO Device through a familiar rule based approach. These rules integrate
seamlessly with the live map and are displayed in real time.
Note: Auxiliary Rules were formerly known as Auxiliary Groups.
As an example, assume your Geotab GO Device has auxiliary 1 connected to your driver
side door and is activated whenever it is opened. In MyGeotab, you would now configure
an auxiliary rule named “Door Open” in the place of “Aux1” for the corresponding vehicle.
What’s changed from 5.6?
In MyGeotab 5.7, Auxiliary Groups have been removed in favour of using Auxiliary Rules.
Rules are a much more flexible way to represent an “auxiliary group” for usability and
reporting processes. It is possible to view broken auxiliary rules from the map, trips
history and exceptions report. This change will not affect any device settings or rules that
utilize auxiliaries, these will continue to function as they have.
During the upgrade process from 5.6 to 5.7 any auxiliary groups that were assigned to
one or more devices will be automatically converted to auxiliary rules.
Creating an auxiliary rule
Grouping Auxiliaries
Generally we want to keep Auxiliary Groups in a separate Group tree from that of
location, vehicle category, etc. For this reason we will group all auxiliaries in their own
branch under Entire Organization.
1. If you already have a parent group for Auxiliaries skip to step 4
2. Navigate to Rules & Groups from the left hand side menu, then select Groups from the
sub-menu
3. Click the “+” button connected to the Entire Organization group
4. Name the group “Auxiliaries” and click save
5. Next we will create our auxiliary group, click the Auxiliary branch
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