Registering Applications, Devices, and Users

Before any application can access the runtime, the user, device, and application must be identified by first registering with Unwired Server and pairing them with a device and user entry. Only when all three entities are known, can subscriptions can be made or data synchronized.

In Sybase Control Center, Platform administrators set up an application connection template for applications . Part of this template includes a property that enables automatic registration.

When automatic registration is enabled, a device user need only provide valid Unwired Platform credentials that are defined as part of the security configuration.
When automatic registration is disabled, the platform administrator must provide the user a username/passcode out-of-band. This is the passcode initially required by login screens to access the application for the first time, and expires within a predetermined time period (72 hours, by default).

Note: Choose to use automatic registrations carefully, especially if there are multiple application connection templates for the same application. The combined criteria of the application ID and security configuration used by the device application trigger a search for a matching template that completes the automatic registration. However, if the security configuration is not sent by the device application, and server finds multiple templates, registration fails.