Adding A Mobile Device Management Server For Mobicontrol; Accessing Mobicontrol From The Clients > Client Detail Page - Dell PowerConnect W-AirWave 7.6 User Manual

being actively managed by the SOTI MobiControl server
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For more information about setting up MobiControl, please see http://www.soti.net/mc/help/.
In order to use SOTI MobiControl from within AirWave, you must first add your MDM server and designate it as a
MobiControl.

Adding a Mobile Device Management Server for MobiControl

1. To add an MDM server to AirWave, navigate to AMP Setup > MDM Server and select Add. Complete the
fields on this page.
Table 118:
AMP Setup > MDM Server > Add Fields and Descriptions
Field
Hostname/IP
Address
Protocol
URL Context
Enabled
User-
name/Password
Polling Period
2. When finished, select Add.
The list page for the MDM server also displays:
Last Contacted – The last time AirWave was able to contact the MDM server.
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Errors – Issues, if any, encountered during the last contact.
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During each polling period, AirWave will obtain a list of all device IDs and their WLAN MAC addresses. The
information about device OS, device OS Detail, Manufacturer, Model, Name are retrieved from MobiControl and
populated to the Clients > Client Detail page for supported mobile devices. A View device in SOTI MobiControl
link provides direct access to the MobiControl Web Console for additional details about the device. MobiControl
information overrides data obtained from ArubaOS 6.0 controllers.
Accessing MobiControl from the Clients > Client Detail Page
In order to access the MobiControl web console for a SOTI-managed mobile device from within AirWave, follow
these steps:
1. Navigate to a page that lists clients. This can include:
Clients > Connected or Clients > All
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Search results that display user MAC addresses
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2. Select the MAC address in the Clients list table. The Clients > Client Detail page displays.
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Table 118 describes the settings and default values:
Description
The address or DNS hostname configured for your MobiControl Web Console.
Whether HTTP or HTTPS is to be used when polling the MDM server. The port on which to connect to
the MDM server is inferred from the protocol: with HTTP, AirWave will connect to port 80 of the SOTI
server; with HTTPS, AirWave will connect to port 443.
The URL context appended to the server URL to build the URL when connecting with the SOTI server.
For MobiControl v8.0x the default URL Context is MobiControlWeb. For MobiControl v8.5x the default
URL Context is MobiControl.
Whether this server can be polled by AirWave. Make sure it is set to Yes.
The login credentials for accessing the web console of the MobiControl system.
The frequency in which AirWave polls the MDM server. The default is 5 minutes.
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