Administration of the SAP Mobile Platform

At its heart, SAP Mobile 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 SAP Mobile Platform primarily to configure platform components and ensure the production environment works efficiently as a result of that configuration.

SAP Mobile 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. SAP Control Center limits feature visibility depending on the role an administrator logs in with. SAP Mobile Platform administrators can be one of three types, each with distinct logins:

SAP Mobile Platform administrator (also known as the platform administrator) – has cluster-wide administration access to the SAP Mobile Platform. supAdmin is the default login for cluster-side administration and is assigned the "SUP Administrator" role in PreConfiguredUserLoginModule (the default SAP Mobile 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. In a deployment edition, you must map SUP Domain Administrator role to a role in your existing repository.
Note: The domain administrator for the "default" domain has the same level of privileges as the SAP Mobile Platform administrator.
Helpdesk – has read-only access to all administration information in the SAP Mobile Platform administration console. In a deployment edition, you must map the SUP Helpdesk role to a role in your existing repository.

The three 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 SAP Mobile 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 SAP Mobile Platform perspective in SAP 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 SAP Mobile Platform environment. When Afaria® is used in conjunction with SAP Mobile Platform, an administrator has a powerful cross-platform mobile management framework:
- SAP Control Center performs the package deployment to the SAP Mobile 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).