Domain Administration Overview

The goal of domain management is to create and manage domains for one specific tenant. Use multiple domains for multiple tenants sharing the same Unwired Server cluster.

Multiple domains in a cluster allow tenants' administrators (that is, domain administrators) to each manage their own application components. Domain administration for the platform administrator is typically an infrequent administration task that occurs each time a new domain needs to be added to support a change in the tenancy strategy used or need to make changes to an existing domain.

Domains give you the means to logically partitioning environments, thereby providing increased flexibility and granularity of control over domain-specific applications. Administration of multiple customer domains takes place within the same Unwired Platform cluster.

An Unwired Platform administrator adds and configures domains, creates security configurations for customer applications, and assigns those security configurations to the domain so they can be mapped to packages in the domain. You can use a dedicated security repository like LDAP or the tenant's own provider via a secure VPN-like connection. See System Administration > Security Administration.
One or more domain administrators then perform domain-level actions within their assigned domains.

In a development environment, domains allow developers from different teams to share a single Unwired Server cluster without disrupting application deployment. Administrators can facilitate this by:

Creating a domain for each developer or developer group.
Granting domain administration privileges to those users so they can perform deployment tasks within their assigned domains.

Domain management tasks
Task	Frequency	Administrator
Create domains	Once for each customer	Unwired Platform administrator
Create and assign security configurations, and map roles at package or domain levels	Infrequent, as required	Unwired Platform administrator
Assign and unassign domain administrators	Infrequent, as required	Unwired Platform administrator
Monitor domain logs	Routine	Unwired Platform administrator and domain administrator
Deploy packages	Routine	Unwired Platform administrator and domain administrator
Manage server connections and templates	Infrequent, as required	Unwired Platform administrator and domain administrator
Manage subscriptions	Routine	Unwired Platform administrator and domain administrator
Review client log and MBO/operation error history	Routine	Unwired Platform administrator and domain administrator