Deployment Server Overview

The MobiControl Deployment Server is responsible for interacting with devices and executing deployment and device configuration rules configured via theMobiControl Manager. Deployment Servers also make real-time information about devices available to MobiControl Manager sessions.

MobiControl Deployment Servers provide the following key features:

• Executing device configuration rules to automatically configure devices to work with MobiControl.
• Executing deployment rules that deploy packages to mobile devices.
• Providing real-time information from devices to MobiControl Manager.
• Fault tolerance automatically distributes the load among available servers a particular server is not available. All devices connected to an unavailable server will automatically migrate to available servers.
• Load balancing and scalability automatically distributes the load among running Deployment Servers when more than one is configured.

Please see the Deployment Server Configuration page for more information on managing and configuring MobiControlDeployment Servers. 

Adding Multiple Deployment Servers to an Installation

Only one Deployment Server is required in an installation of MobiControl, however, you may choose an implementation using multiple Deployment Servers for any of these reasons:

• Fault tolerance
• Scalability 
• Network optimization: For network topologies where a large number of mobile devices at different physical locations have a low-bandwidth connection to the central server, system performance can be improved by installing additional Deployment Servers at the remote locations.  This results in lower office-to-office network traffic by allowing the remote devices to connect to regional servers instead of the central server.