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### 4.6.x Device tracking and compliance control
ICT Element management is an enterprise-focused system to control and manage the configuration of the connected ICT Network Elements.
The ICT device management belongs also to the ecosystem management, and has the similar architecture as shown in the IoT-use case despite the functionalities of the managed ICT Network Elements are very different.
ICT Network Element management is an enterprise-focused system to control and manage the configuration of the connected ICT Network Elements.
An ICT Network Element can encompass anything from routers, modems, switches up to mobile devices, tablets, smart phones, laptops, desktop PCs to servers.
The use case describes a systems that provides centralized governance of the ICT elements within the cope of an organization.
The use case describes a systems that provides centralized governance of the ICT Network Elements within the cope of an organization.
ICT device management is in general subject to enterprises or larger organization that equip their employees with the essential ICT elements they work with.
The users usually do not have full administration rights and are restricted to the application level to manage personal look and feel.
It can be characterized as follows:
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* Device status tracking and compliance control to enterprise guidelines and safeguards
* Remote control of device application features if present
ICT device management is in general subject to enterprises or larger organization that equip their employees with the essential ICT elements they work with.
That includes mobile devices, notebooks but also enterprise specific other devices and related software to all of that.
Other than it might be in the IoT use case, the ICT elements remain in the ownership and governance of the issuing enterprise.
The users do not have full administration rights and are usually restricted to the application level to manage personal look and feel.
In other words, the employees have only those administration rights the central administration granted before and which the NMS configures accordingly to the enterprise rules.
With that the ICT elements are integral part of the business logic and enterprise processes running in the background.
