Application and User Management Overview

The goal of application management is to register an application to Unwired Server as an entity, create an application template that specifies application connection details for a user, and activate applications either manually or automatically.

Application and user management tasks
Task	Frequency	Accomplish by using
Create new applications to register application entities with Unwired Server. A default application template is created automatically. Modify and delete applications as part of application life cycle.	As required	Sybase Control Center for Unwired Platform with Applications node, and Applications tab.
Create or modify application connection templates to specify details for native, workflow, and proxy application connections.	As required	Sybase Control Center for Unwired Platform, with Application node, and Application Connection Templates tab.
For applications that need to be registered manually, register an application connection to associate an application connection with a user. This is not necessary for applications that are registered automatically.	As required	Sybase Control Center for Unwired Platform, with Application node, and Application Connections tab.
View activated users, once they have logged in with the activation code. Users must either supply the activation code manually, or the device client supplies the activation code automatically as coded.	As required	Sybase Control Center for Unwired Platform with the Application node, and Application Users tab.
Create a new activation code for a user whose code has expired.	As required	Sybase Control Center for Unwired Platform, with Application node, and Application Connections tab.
Review registered application connections and users, delete application connections to free licenses, delete application connections to remove users from the system	As required	Sybase Control Center for Unwired Platform with the Applications node.
Manage subscriptions	As required	Sybase Control Center for Unwired Platform with the Packages node.

Information and guidelines:

Note: Application connection is not used for native replication applications at this time.

Two activation options are available for onboarding, which refers to the process of activating an authentic device client, user, and application entity, as a combination, in Unwired Server:
- Automatic activation – requires a user to present credentials to use the application on a supported device client.
- Manual activation – requires the user to present the activation code upon log on to a supported device client. The system administrator establishes an activation code when registering the application connection for the user.
Native messaging applications can only be activated manually.
Application template are used for automatic activation. Therefore, when setting up the application template for automatic registration, be sure to set up the security configuration, domain, the application ID, and automatic registration enabled properties in application settings. Those are used for automatic application registration.

When a client application connects to the server with its application ID and credentials, and requests automatic registration, the application ID is used to look up a matching template. If that template allows automatic registration (the Automatic Registration Enabled property is set to true),the security configuration in the template is used to validate the credentials. Upon successful validation of those credentials, the user identity is registered in the Unwired Server. The client application may also include the security configuration as part of the username (user@securityconfiguration) and in that case, the security configuration (in addition to application ID) is used to look up a matching template. If no or multiple templates are detected, the registration request fails.
Supported device client activation options:

Device Client Type Automatic Registration Manual Registration

Workflow messaging X X

Native messaging X

Online Data Proxy X X

Device Client Type	Automatic Registration	Manual Registration
Workflow messaging	X	X
Native messaging		X
Online Data Proxy	X	X

Applications
An Application is the runtime entity that can be directly correlated to a native or mobile workflow application. The application definition on the server establishes the relationship among packages used in the application, domain that the application is deployed to, user activation method for the application, and other application specific settings.
Application Creation
There are two ways an application gets created - automatic and manual.
Application Connections
Application connections associate an application instance with a user. An application may be used by many users, and a user may be associated with many applications.
Application Connection Templates
An application connection template is a model or pattern used to standardize connection properties and values for a specific application connections so that they can be reused. A template allows you to quickly create actual application connections.