Device and User Management

Device user management applies to broad category of functions: registering devices and managing user accounts. It can also extend to activating and provisioning mobile devices.

Mobile management features of Unwired Platform allow mobile devices and their user accounts to be managed in similar fashion to how computer applications are managed by IT departments: users need to be identifiable, computers need to be tracked and assigned, and "standard" enterprise applications need to be distributed and installed.

• Device and User Management Overview
  The goal of device user management is to register, activate, and provision devices so that device users can access applications and be tracked and managed by the system. This is particularly important for messaging-based synchronization (MBS) environments, because users cannot access the application unless the device is registered and activated.
• Users
  In Unwired Platform, application users are individuals who have been registered through messaging-based or replication-based applications. Application users are managed in Sybase Control Center.
• Messaging Devices
  Messaging devices contain applications that send and receive data through messaging. A 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.
• 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.
• Subscriptions
  Subscriptions are managed with MBO packages. However, they are closely associated nonetheless with the device user, because it is the pairing of a user profile and registered and activated device account give the user subscription privileges. Subscriptions define what subset of data the user wants to receive when they synchronize.
• Device Provisioning
  Provisioning describes how to setup the device, so it can interact with the Unwired Platform environment. Device provisioning assumes that the user subscriber accounts have already been setup in Sybase Control Center.