Devices

Devices interact with Unwired Platform to gain access to corporate information. Registration of a device creates an account that identifies a user by the device registered. The user must authenticate with the authentication provider before any mobile business applications can be accessed from the device application.

Devices are categorized by the synchronization model used by the device application. The type of synchronization model used determines the configuration and administration actions you can perform.

• Device Information
  Access device information in the Devices tab of the Device Users node. View data on registered devices in order to manage and monitor device synchronization.
• Replication Devices
  Replication devices are used with replication-based synchronization (RBS) mobile business objects that rely on RBS data cached in the consolidated database. RBS device users are automatically registered when they first synchronize data. There is no device configuration required; the only tasks an administrator performs are monitoring RBS device activity, locking and unlocking RBS devices, and deleting them.
• Messaging Devices
  Messaging devices contain applications that send and receive data through messaging. An platform administrator must configure the device activation template properties for messaging-based synchronization (MBS) devices. Device activation requires user registration. Upon successful registration, the device is activated and set up with the template the administrator has selected.
• Device Templates
  A device template is a property sheet that contains default messaging device settings for user registration. There are two types of template: default and custom.
• Deleting Replication and Messaging Devices
  Delete a device from Unwired Server.
• Locking and Unlocking Devices
  Lock or unlock devices to control which users are allowed to synchronize data. Locking a device is an effective way to temporarily disable a specific user without making changes to the security profile configuration of the package to which he or she belongs.
• Registering and Reregistering Messaging Devices
  Use Sybase Control Center to trigger the registration and device activation process, which allows messaging mobile business objects (MBOs) to handle messages belonging to different data sources.
• Assigning and Unassigning Workflow Packages to Device Users
  Assign mobile workflow packages to messaging devices make them available to an activation user. You can also unassign mobile workflow packages at any time.
• Cloning Messaging Devices
  Create a duplicate copy of a device user's messaging configuration settings. This allows you to retain user information and pair it with a different device in the event that a user gets a new or alternate device. Cloning a device requires that an additional device license be consumed.
• Viewing Device Users
  View the users registered through a particular device.
• Upgrading Replication Devices
  Upgrade a replication-based synchronization (RBS) device to a messaging-based synchronization (MBS) device. This option is available only to Windows Mobile devices, which support both RBS and MBS applications.
• Retrieving Device Logs
  Send a request to Unwired Server to retrieve log files from a messaging-based synchronization (MBS) device.
• Viewing Devices Associated with Users
  View the devices associated with a specific application user.
• Viewing Device Licensing Information
  Review licensing information to monitor available and used device licenses, license expiry dates, and other license details. This information allows administrators to manage license use and determine whether old or unused device licenses should be tranferred to new devices.
• Purging Unused Devices
  Periodically clean up devices not used since a given date. This purges device associated items such as subscriptions.
• Purging Unused Device Users
  Periodically clean up users. User cleanup removes any user-specific data stored in the consolidated database, such as personalization keys. If you remove a security configuration, all users registered with that security configuration are also removed.