Creating Addresses, Groups, and Profiles

Session Manager allows you to control each user session opened with the SMS or SMTP download notification and determine what actions are subsequently performed.

The session manager channel is used only after the Afaria client files have been correctly installed on the device.

For complete details and references to required related topics, see Afaria Reference Manual | Platform > Administration > Profile, Afaria Reference Manual | Components > Session Manager and Software Manager chapters.

  1. In Afaria Administrator, create address book entries to define contact information for devices so that users can be contacted, using the SMS or the SMTP gateway you have enabled.
    Note: If you have a user list in another application and that application allows you to export entries to a *.CSV file, you can import this information into Afaria Administrator. See Afaria Reference Manual | Platform > Home > Client Deployment > Address Book Properties, Distribution List Properties, and Importing Addresses.
  2. Create groups, and assign users to them.
  3. Create profiles that define what happens during the user session (for example, what instructions are given, which items are sent to a client, and so on).
  4. Assign these groups (and therefore its members) to the session channel.
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