This article outlines how we use the MobiControl folders to give customers and partners easy access to multiple endpoints.
Standard Setup
Once we implement a new customer, we use a very simple standard setup looking like the following structure in MobiControl.
- Customer Name
- New Devices
- Production
- Test
The purpose of each sub folder is:
New Devices: Used as landing place when a new device is enrolled for the specific customer. Mobile WMS is not installed in this folder.
Test: Used to push out the Test configuration to the customers mobile devices including (configuration files, endpoint and Mobile WMS).
Production: Used to push out the Production configuration to the customers mobile devices including (configuration files, endpoint and Mobile WMS).
Moving a device between these folders in MobiControl will cause a change on the device, as it installs the files and Mobile WMS application that are setup for the given folder.
Managing Multiple Companies
In some cases the customer is managing multiple companies, we will handle this using the following blueprint.
Imaging the customer is operating in Company X and Company Y, in that case the proposed structure will look like the following:
- Customer Name
- New Devices
- Production
- Company X
- Company Y
- Test
The only difference is now that we have added two child folders under the Production folder, in order to allow the customer to have different Production Configurations.
Thus, the customer will either place their devices in the Company X or Company Y folder under Production depending on whether the device is used in one or the other company.
The Test folder will however not get any sub folders, we will instead simply add an additional endpoint to the configuration files for the Test folder in order to allow the end user to easily change company during testing.