Monitoring and mobile operations

MPF includes a range of operational analytics and reporting mechanisms for collecting, viewing, and analyzing data from the MPF applications and servers, and for monitoring server health.

• Logging and monitoring mechanisms
  IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation reports errors, warnings, and informational messages into a log file. The underlying logging mechanism varies by application server.

• Analytics
  The operational analytics feature enables searching across apps, services, devices, and other sources to collect data about usage or detect problems.

• Mobile application management
  The Mobile Application Management feature enables mobile operators and administrators to securely track, search, and control access to users through the mobile applications used on their devices, all from the operations console.

• User certificate authentication
  Enterprises can now use X.509 client-side certificates to authenticate users, by applying a new user authentication realm to their existing security tests. This new realm is called UserCertificateAuthRealm. This feature allows enterprises to enroll users to their enterprise certificate authority (CA) directly from their mobile devices. The traffic between the MobileFirst application on the device and the MobileFirst Server in the enterprise can be secured over HTTPS with client-side certificates that are issued to the users as part of the initial enrollment process.

• License tracking
  License tracking is enabled by default in IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation, which tracks metrics relevant to the licensing policy such as active client devices and installed apps.