About SAP Control Center for SAP Mobile Platform

SAP Control Center provides a single comprehensive Web administration console to configure and manage SAP products and their components.

SAP Control Center combines a modular architecture, a rich administrative console, agents, common services, and tools for managing and controlling SAP products. SAP Mobile Platform is one of many SAP products that use SAP Control Center as its management and administrative tool.

As part of an SAP Mobile Platform installation, SAP Control Center can be used in three ways:

In a personal development environment, developers may act as administrators to set up a personal testing environment. Development administrators use SAP Control Center to deploy and configure packages, register messaging devices, and so on. No other additional configuration or administration may be required.
In a distributed or shared development environment, administrators use SAP Control Center to set up an SAP Mobile Server, manage packages, manage devices, configure Hybrid App packages, as well as review server and domain logs, and monitoring-related data.
In a production environment, administrators use SAP Control Center on a regular basis to perform the same tasks described for a shared development environment. They also configure the operation of SAP Mobile Servers, and administer day-to-day activities of the production environment. Administrators must also routinely monitor the overall health and performance of the system, which may include clusters and domains.

Documentation Roadmap for SAP Mobile Platform
SAP® Mobile Platform documents are available for administrative and mobile development user roles. Some administrative documents are also used in the development and test environment; some documents are used by all users.
SAP Mobile Platform Administration by Node
The left navigation pane in the SAP Control Center console displays a tree of administrable features in the form of nodes, some of which can be expanded to reveal a more granular view of the cluster environment. These nodes let you manage and configure the main components of SAP Mobile Platform.
Cluster Administration
The goal of cluster administration is to ensure that clusters and servers work smoothly, and scale over time. By default, the SAP Mobile Platform is installed as a one-node cluster. The one-node cluster is supported in development or test environments. Production deployments of SAP Mobile Platform are likely to require multiple nodes. Cluster administration is mostly a nonroutine administration task.
Server Administration
The goal of server administration is to ensure that SAP Mobile Server is running correctly and that it is configured correctly for the environment in which it is installed (development or production). Server administration is mostly a one-time or infrequent administration task.
Application and User Management Overview
The goal of application management is to register an application to SAP Mobile Server as an entity, create an application template that specifies application connection details for a user, and activate application connections either manually or automatically.
Domain Management
The goal of domain management is to create and manage domains for one specific tenant. Use multiple domains for multiple tenants sharing the same SAP Mobile Server cluster.
MBO Package Management Overview
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.
Hybrid App Package Management Overview
The goal of Hybrid App package management is to make Hybrid Apps available from the SAP Mobile Server to device users. Hybrid App package management typically requires a one-time deployment and configuration, except for ongoing package maintenance.
Security Administration Overview
Perform security administration tasks to establish rules for the protection of enterprise and administrative data and transactions.
System Monitoring Overview
(Not applicable to Online Data Proxy) The goal of monitoring is to provide a record of activities and performance statistics for various elements of the application. Monitoring is an ongoing administration task.

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