`Active` flag and Device Status Monitoring

[danieltsoukup]

Goal: we would like to better understand the device status for system administration, specifically if the device is

• actively sending data,
• registered at the location but down for some reason,
• registered but is not deployed at any locations.

The current active flag in the database is not very useful at the moment. There should also be a convenient end-point we can hook up the admin page of the dashboard for monitoring. https://dashboard.tracket.info/admin

@mbechtel happy to discuss here further in a thread!

[mbechtel]

Thank you for setting up this issue. Great ideas. After thinking about it a bit, I think we should not add these features to the API because they are not needed/useful to the public and device-specific information should be kept private and secure. Instead, we should query and display this information behind a private and secured admin login UI.