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Device name from MCC Agent

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I would like to know if  there is a way to get the device name through the MSDK v 5.4.  Currently we use Mobile Control Center to manage three different hand-held models, work about pro, g2 and g3, and Omnii  XP10. Every device have running the Device Agent Manager.

Our development team is building  a lightweight agent, using .Net and MSDK v5.4 altogether.  We need to constantly  extract  wireless statistics, battery status, etc . Those data will be synchronized  to a  remote  database  through web services.

My concern is related with the device name because there is no problem to retrieve the above data, but we don't find any related to  the device name.

I hope the Psion' Community could help us!.

Software Integrator Administrator

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  • Hello Jose,

    Any device-specific information (such as the device name) is saved in the PDB.INI file of the terminal.  By default, this file can be found on the stable storage folder of the terminal.  On Windows CE temrinals, this is typically the '\Flash Disk\' folder, in Windows Mobile devices you may find the file in the '\MCC\' folder. 

    Once you have located the PDB.INI file, the Device Name is saved in the 'DeviceName' namespace of the [Device] section.

    The MSDK should not be required to open the file.

    Best regards,

    Arthur - Americas help desk

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  • Hello Jose,

    Any device-specific information (such as the device name) is saved in the PDB.INI file of the terminal.  By default, this file can be found on the stable storage folder of the terminal.  On Windows CE temrinals, this is typically the '\Flash Disk\' folder, in Windows Mobile devices you may find the file in the '\MCC\' folder. 

    Once you have located the PDB.INI file, the Device Name is saved in the 'DeviceName' namespace of the [Device] section.

    The MSDK should not be required to open the file.

    Best regards,

    Arthur - Americas help desk

  • Hi Arthur,

    Thank you very much for your kindly support. In our case the PDB.ini file is located in \Psion Teklogix\.

    Best regards,

    Software Integrator Administrator