XenMobile and FireBase Cloud Messaging (FCM) Configuration

Hemanth Rao Kotha

9 years ago

This post is intended to provide detailed configuration steps to enable FireBase Cloud Messaging (FCM) in XenMobile 10.

In previous versions of XenMobile, we configured the scheduling policy for Andorid devices based on how and when the user devices needed to connect to XenMobile. In the latest version XenMobile 10 you can use FCM to control this. Any security action or deploy command will trigger a push notification to WorxHome to ask for a re-connection to the XenMobile server.

Pre-Requisites.

XenMobile 10 Server
Latest WorxHome client
Google developer account credentials.

Firewall Ports:

Source	Direction	Destination	Port
XenMobile	Outbound	Android.apis.google.com	443
XenMobile	Outbound	Google.com	443

Architecture.

Configuration Steps.

https://firebase.google.com/console

Create New Project

Provide a name for the project, select the Country/Region and click Create Project.

Select the gear icon next to your project name at top left, and select Project Settings.

Select the Cloud Messaging tab. You can find your sender ID and Server Key in this page. Copy these values as you need to provide these Values in XenMobile Server.

In the search option type in GCM and hit search.

Select GCM API key and click on edit to enter the value.

In the value field enter the GCM API Key which we generated in above steps and click save.

Select GCM Sender ID and click Edit.

In the value field enter the Sender ID value which was generated above steps and click save.

Now You are done with the configuration settings on both Google side as well as XenMobile server side.

How to Validate this feature

Enroll an Android Device.
Leave the device idle for some time and let the device disconnect from XenMobile Server.
Login to XenMobile admin console > Click on Manage Tab > Select the device and Click on Secure.

Perform a Selective Wipe action.

Selective Wipe should happen on the device without reconnecting to XenMobile.