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Configuration Manager
Overview

Centralized Control of Frontline System Settings

On the front lines—where responsive service and quick decisions create competitive advantage—your workforce depends on their mobile devices and systems. Making them easy to use and maintain lets frontline workers spend less time managing their devices and more time meeting their business objectives.

Afaria Configuration Manager ensures that remote devices and systems are configured properly, giving frontline workers hassle-free use and ensuring that required connection settings are enforced. It lets you securely and centrally configure and maintain system attributes, preferences and settings for remote devices.

Detailed connection profiles, for example, can be deployed and maintained using Configuration Manager. It allows you to detail connection options to the network service (like method and speed, type, username, password, and timeout). You can specify dialing information, such as: the phone number the device should use to reach the network service; any necessary prefix or country preset; enable/disable call waiting; and calling card information. Finally, you can define address information, such as whether to enable or disable the DNS query and whether to obtain the IP address automatically.

But Configuration Manager also lets you specify a number of system settings and attributes to make device use easier for frontline workers. For example, it allows you to standardize devices on a time/date format, disable device sounds and update owner demographic and contact information. You can enable proxy settings for web browsers, and program buttons to represent specific applications (such as calendar or email), making application access quick and easy.

You can configure format settings such as time zones, daylight savings time, date, week start, and numbers, or device settings like whether the device stays off or on in the cradle; system volume level; alarm volume level; alarm LED display on/off; vibration functions; volume level for games; and beam receive on/off. You can even create and enable text shortcuts on a remote device and then remove them when they are no longer needed.

Configuration Manager takes care of the connection tasks associated with ActiveSync and HotSync, including connection settings and synchronization options. You can remotely connection settings, such as details about the network service, server addresses and logon information. Synchronization options for email, calendar and contact information can be configured centrally and enforced on client devices.

Security options allow you to lock-out specified applications, prevent user from accessing the run dialog, an disallow loading of external applications or executables on storage cards.

Maintaining systems in the right configuration is not easy for frontline workers. Configuration Manager puts the control back in the hands of administrators.