At its heart, Unwired Platform is a mobility-enablement platform. It has the tools, the client APIs, the server components and the administration console that offer a complete, end-to-end system for creating enterprise-level mobile solutions.
Administrators interact with Unwired Platform primarily to configure platform components and ensure the production environment works efficiently as a result of that configuration.
Unwired Platform delegates security checks, by passing login and password information to the security provider.
In general, all administrative and application users and their passwords are managed in the security repository. Sybase Control Center limits feature visibility depending on the role an administrator logs in with. Unwired Platform administrators can be one of two types, each with distinct logins:
- Unwired Platform administrator (also known as the platform administrator) – has cluster-wide administration access to the Unwired Platform. supAdmin is the default login for cluster-side administration and is assigned the "SUP Administrator" role in PredefineUserLoginModule (the default Unwired Platform repository for development environments). In a deployment edition, you must map the SUP Administrator logical role to a role in your existing repository.
- Domain administrator – has access confined to the specific domains that the platform administrator assigns. supDomainAdmin is the default login for domain administration and is assigned the "SUP Domain Administrator" role in PredefineUserLoginModule. In a deployment edition, you must also map SUP Domain Administrator role to a role in your existing repository.
Both types of administrators are authenticated and authorized based on the 'admin' security configuration and its domain-level role mapping for administrative roles.
There are three main aspects to this platform that platform and domain administrators conjointly administer:
- Mobile application creation is supported by integrated development tools, APIs, samples
and tutorials. For the developer, this aspect of the Unwired Platform allows the creation
of integration logic and device applications that allow registered device users to seamlessly interact securely with your existing back-end infrastructure.
Before you begin, know: the devices you need to support, the back-ends you need to integrate with, and the synchronization model you will use.
- Mobile application administration requires both the development and deployment of
applications. The Unwired Platform perspective in Sybase Control Center is integral to configuring and managing applications as they are developed and integrated into your system landscape. Further, all aspects of a production environment can be monitored for troubleshooting or performance tuning purposes.
Before you begin, decide: the system design/topology you environment requires and what type of security providers you need to delegate application security to.
- Mobile user, device, and application management simplifies how the end user is registered and
provisioned in the Unwired Platform environment. When Afaria® is used in conjunction
with Unwired Platform, an administrator has a powerful cross-platform mobile management
framework:
- Sybase Control Center performs the package deployment to the Unwired Server as
well as manages user accounts and data service subscriptions.
Before you begin, understand what package types you need to support, and how the
package type affects how users are registered and subscriptions are created, and how your
devices might be provisioned (cable or over-the-air).