Book Image

Citrix XenMobile Mobile Device Management

By : Akash Phoenix
Book Image

Citrix XenMobile Mobile Device Management

By: Akash Phoenix

Overview of this book

<p>XenMobile is an enterprise Mobile Development Management solution with a multitude of technologies within it. It offers security and compliance in IT while giving apps and data freedom to users with mobile devices. The rising prevalence of mobile devices into corporate environments has increased the demand of Enterprise Mobility Management solutions, and XenMobile is one of the best tools to use for it.</p> <p>This concise guide will help you demystify the XenMobile deployment and management process in a very easy way, covering a range of topics including implementation, management, and troubleshooting of related apps. The illustrations in the book will help you further relate to the scenarios discussed.</p> <p>This book deals with the implementation, management, and troubleshooting techniques of the complete XenMobile solution. It kicks off with a detailed introduction of each component of the XenMobile solution and their role in the bundle. The next chapters deal with detailed pre and post implementation steps with relevant illustrations including remotely managing mobile devices and enrolling and revoking access on mobile devices. Later, you will cover the techniques to effectively manage mobile devices using the XenMobile solution like remote support, device enrolment, and so on.</p> <p>The book concludes by showing you how to deploy some commonly known policies and showing the basic troubleshooting steps for known device management issues.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Citrix XenMobile™ Mobile Device Management
Credits
Notice
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Preface

With the launch of a new mobile device every day, Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions are on the top priority list for most of the corporate houses. This book deals with the Citrix® XenMobile™ Solution, which has been acknowledged as one of the most secure solutions available as of now. In this book, we will introduce each of the XenMobile™ Solution components and further provide detailed step-by-step instructions to successfully deploy these components.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, XenMobile Solutions Bundle, introduces our readers to the XenMobile™ Solutions Bundle and its components.

Chapter 2, XenMobile Solution Deployment Prerequisites, covers the system requirements and prerequisites required to successfully deploy the XenMobile™ components.

Chapter 3, NetScaler® Gateway VPX Deployment, introduces our readers to the NetScaler Gateway VPX Solution and its step-by-step deployment procedure.

Chapter 4, XenMobile Device Manager Deployment, covers the XenMobile™ Device Manager Installation and configuration steps.

Chapter 5, XenMobile App Controller Deployment, covers the step-by-step installation and configuration for the XenMobile™ App Controller.

Chapter 6, XenMobile Remote Support, covers the installation steps for XenMobile™ Remote Support tool and configuration to remotely access enrolled mobile devices.

Chapter 7, Device Enrollment and Revoking Access, covers the steps to enroll devices with the XenMobile™ Device Manager server and revoke access to these devices.

Chapter 8, Managing Applications, explains how to manage applications residing on enrolled devices using the XenMobile™ Device Manager and XenMobile™ App Controller.

Chapter 9, Deploying Policies, introduces XenMobile™ Device Manager and App Controller policies with examples.

Chapter 10, Troubleshooting, covers the most common installation and configuration challenges faced by admins, with their best possible resolutions.

What you need for this book

You need to install the following software applications:

  • XenMobile™ Device Manager 8.5

  • App Controller 2.9

  • NetScaler VPX 10

  • XenMobile™ Remote Support 8.5

  • VMware Workstation 8 (used for testing purpose)

  • VMware ESX or XenServer® (for production environments)

  • Worx Home 8.5.0 for mobile devices

Who this book is for

This book is for professionals who want to familiarize themselves with MDM and who aspire to discover how MDM software is designed to meet the most complex and demanding mobile requirements when it comes to securing their mobile enterprise.

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguishes between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "We can include other contexts through the use of the include directive."

A block of code is set as follows:

[default]
exten => s,1,Dial(Zap/1|30)
exten => s,2,Voicemail(u100)
exten => s,102,Voicemail(b100)
exten => i,1,Voicemail(s0)

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

[default]
exten => s,1,Dial(Zap/1|30)
exten => s,2,Voicemail(u100)
exten => s,102,Voicemail(b100)
exten => i,1,Voicemail(s0)

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

# cp /usr/src/asterisk-addons/configs/cdr_mysql.conf.sample
     /etc/asterisk/cdr_mysql.conf

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "clicking the Next button moves you to the next screen".

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.

Reader feedback

Feedback from our readers is always welcome. Let us know what you think about this book—what you liked or may have disliked. Reader feedback is important for us to develop titles that you really get the most out of.

To send us general feedback, simply send an e-mail to , and mention the book title via the subject of your message.

If there is a topic that you have expertise in and you are interested in either writing or contributing to a book, see our author guide on www.packtpub.com/authors.

Customer support

Now that you are the proud owner of a Packt book, we have a number of things to help you to get the most from your purchase.

Errata

Although we have taken every care to ensure the accuracy of our content, mistakes do happen. If you find a mistake in one of our books—maybe a mistake in the text or the code—we would be grateful if you would report this to us. By doing so, you can save other readers from frustration and help us improve subsequent versions of this book. If you find any errata, please report them by visiting http://www.packtpub.com/submit-errata, selecting your book, clicking on the errata submission form link, and entering the details of your errata. Once your errata are verified, your submission will be accepted and the errata will be uploaded on our website, or added to any list of existing errata, under the Errata section of that title. Any existing errata can be viewed by selecting your title from http://www.packtpub.com/support.

Piracy

Piracy of copyright material on the Internet is an ongoing problem across all media. At Packt, we take the protection of our copyright and licenses very seriously. If you come across any illegal copies of our works, in any form, on the Internet, please provide us with the location address or website name immediately so that we can pursue a remedy.

Please contact us at with a link to the suspected pirated material.

We appreciate your help in protecting our authors, and our ability to bring you valuable content.

Questions

You can contact us at if you are having a problem with any aspect of the book, and we will do our best to address it.