The goal of mobile business object (MBO) package management is to make MBOs available to device users. MBO package management typically requires a one-time deployment and configuration, except for ongoing subscription management for messaging and SAP® Data Orchestration Engine Connector (DOE-C) packages.
Packages contain MBOs that are deployed to SAP Mobile Server to facilitate access to back-end data and transactions from mobile devices. Package types include UNIFIED packages, and SAP® DOE-C packages.
A package, along with its current settings for cache groups, role mappings, synchronization groups, connections, and security configuration, can be exported to an archive and imported back into SAP Control Center for backup or to facilitate a transition from a test environment to a production environment.
| Task | Package type | Frequency | Accomplish by using |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deploy packages to a pre-production SAP Mobile Server | UNIFIED | Once, unless a new version becomes available | SAP Control Center for SAP Mobile Platform with the domain-level Packages node |
| Control user access by assigning security configurations for each package, and mapping roles if fine-grained authorization is enforced through logical roles | UNIFIED | Once, unless security requirements of the package change | SAP Control Center for SAP Mobile Platform with the domain-level Packages node |
| Set up the package cache interval and cache refresh schedule (for getting data updated on the SAP Mobile Server from the data source) | UNIFIED | Once, unless data refreshes need to be tuned | SAP Control Center for SAP Mobile Platform with the domain-level Packages node |
| Manage subscriptions (UNIFIED, and DOE-C), synchronization groups (UNIFIED), and device notifications (UNIFIED) to customize how updated data in the cache is delivered to the device user | Varies | Periodic, as required | SAP Control Center for SAP Mobile Platform with the domain-level Packages node |
| Export or import an MBO package to a QA or production SAP Mobile Server | UNIFIED | On-demand, as required | SAP Control Center for SAP Mobile Platform with the domain-level Packages node |
| Review current/historical/performance metrics | All | Routine | SAP Control Center for SAP Mobile Platform with the Monitoring node (available only to administrators) |
| View asynchronous operation replays for the selected package | Replication, UNIFIED | Periodic, as required | SAP Control Center for SAP Mobile Platform with the domain-level Packages node. However, asynchronous operation replays must first be enabled at the cluster level. See Viewing Asynchronous Operation Replays . |