Provisioning with Afaria

Enable a group of applications to be initially provisioned with a set of parameters from a provisioning file using Afaria.

1. Setting Up the Afaria Environment
   Setting up the Afaria environment in SAP Mobile Platform primarily involves configuring over-the-air (OTA) deployment. OTA deployment requires specific setup of the Afaria server and uses multiple tools to accomplish this task.
2. Prerequisites for Provisioning an Application Using Afaria
   Verify that these prerequisites for provisioning an application using Afaria are completed by administrators or application developers.
3. Preparing the Provisioning File
   Create the provisioning file required for automatic provisioning of an application, and provide it to the Afaria administrator.
4. Provisioning the SAP Mobile Server Public Key
   Use the public key of the SAP Mobile Server to populate its value in the provisioning file.
5. Creating a Provisioning File for Afaria
   Provision applications through Afaria with a simple text configuration file that can be parsed by the client and from which data is then imported.
6. Provisioning Configuration Data and Certificates
   Automate the process of provisioning applications by enabling a group of applications to be intially provisioned with a set of parameters from a configuration file, and transferring certificates, using Afaria.