Afaria needs a database server to save its data into a database. This data was installed in the previous step. Now the SQL Server Express data needs to be prepared for SAP Afaria installation. Preparation Afaria will need a user to log on to SQL Server Express. As Windows is Read more…
SAP Afaria 7 needs a database server. Supported types are Sybase and SQL Server. The steps outlined in this blog will Microsoft SQL Server. There are various types of SQL Server available and Microsoft offers a free version of SQL Server: SQL Server Express. This version is “same” as the Read more…
Having a SSL certificate installed and available in IIS, access to web sites / applications can be secured using SSL. Next step is to secure the access to the Afaria Web Application. This will be done by activating SSL for the entire web site, that is: all resources under the Read more…
To ensure confidentiality of user data, access to SAP Afaria by users needs to be done using SSL. For this to work, IIS must use its own valid SSL certificate. To do so, first a certificate request for IIS must be created. This request will be handled by the CA Read more…
The web interfaces of Afaria run on top of IIS and are ASP applications. To be able to run them, IIS and ASP must be made available on the server. On way to achieve this is to activate the application server role on the Windows server. This is done by Read more…
To enroll an iOS device to SAP Afaria, a certificate for this device is needed. For mobile apps, SAP Afaria client can be used to request a user certificate from the CA. All these requests are handled by SAP Afaria, making the certificate handling transparent to the user. For doing Read more…
Afaria does not necessarily need Active Directory. In fact it works nicely with LDAP or integrated Windows authorization too. As Afaria will be installed on a Windows server and AD is available out of the box, it makes sense to enable AD. Creating later new users for device enrollment is Read more…
The specific server requirements for Afaria can be taken from SAP PAM. For the scenario of this document I assume that you simply want to try out things with Afaria, like getting a understanding of how things work, how to get a device managed by Afaria. To be able to Read more…