Provisioning describes all activities used to setup the device and its applications, so it can interact with the Unwired Platform environment.
Device and application provisioning includes:
- Distributing and installing the platform infrastructure components. Devices that require provisioning of infrastructure components include:
- Afaria clients
for Windows, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry devices.
- Client runtime for messaging-based synchronization applications for Windows and Windows Mobile. No runtime is required for iOS.
- Security artifacts for encryption and SSO. See Device Security in the Security guide.
- Distributing and installing the device application that interacts with packages that are deployed to the Unwired Server. For heterogeneous device provisioning support, Sybase recommends Afaria.
- If you are using a replication application, setting up the device for push synchronization. See Setting up Push Synchronization for Replication.
- If you are using a messaging application, registering the user devices using Sybase Control Center (each user then activates using the Sybase Settings application deployed in step 1).