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Install Ellucian Mobile Software
Install the Ellucian Mobile WAR file and perform basic configuration steps.
Install the WAR file
Install the Web Application Archive (WAR) files for Banner, PowerCampus, or Colleague.

Implementation Guide, May 2023, Release 5.6.3
This online help contains comprehensive information about how to install, set up, and maintain Ellucian Mobile.
Ellucian Mobile Overview
Ellucian Mobile, powered by Ellucian Ethos, provides faculty, prospects, students, staff, and other constituents with access to key campus information and services from their mobile devices. This section provides an overview of Ellucian Mobile.
Before You Begin
This section describes some advance preparations that you can make to help your Ellucian Mobile setup process to go as smoothly as possible.
Install Supporting Software
Before you can install the Ellucian Mobile components, there are several prerequisite software components that must be installed. Note that Grails is also required, but does not need to be installed separately because all Grails components that you need are included in the WAR file that you install later.
Install Ellucian Mobile Software
Install the Ellucian Mobile WAR file and perform basic configuration steps.
- Install the WAR file
  Install the Web Application Archive (WAR) files for Banner, PowerCampus, or Colleague.
- Customize and install the server configuration file
  Set up the server configuration file.
- (Optional) Support for SQL Server and Oracle databases
  As delivered, Ellucian Mobile stores your configuration information in an H2 datasource on the Tomcat server.
Set up the Mobile Cloud Configuration System
Set up the Ellucian Mobile Cloud Configuration System. Description of the process for signing from the Ellucian Hub, how to create and enter the configuration settings, and how to specify the SIS credentials.
Manage Users and User Permissions for the Mobile Cloud Configuration System
You can give selected people access to modify specific elements of your mobile configurations, such as user management, configuration management, branding, or sending push notifications.
Customize the Appearance of Ellucian GO
Set up the home screen, select background and text colors, and set up the About screen.
Set Up Location-Aware Features
Set up Ellucian Mobile features that are location-aware; that is, based on proximity to a beacon.
Set Up Application Modules
Set up the application modules that are displayed in Ellucian GO.
Test and Publish a Configuration
To view your configuration on a device, you must place the configuration into test status. When you are ready to make your configuration available in the public list of institutions on Ellucian GO, you publish the configuration.
Analyze Usage
The Google Analytics Platform lets you measure user interactions across various devices and environments. You can use Google Analytics to view detailed usage statistics of your school's Ellucian Mobile implementation.
Manage Configurations
In addition to the ability to add a new configuration manually, you can create a new configuration by copying an existing one, export configuration information, import configuration information, and migrate a configuration to a different database.
Set up multiple Mobile Integration Server Web Service Apps
If you want to have multiple active configurations at the same time, you need to set up multiple Mobile Integration Server web service apps.
Set up Load Balancing and Redundancy
Multiple Mobile Integration Servers can be set up for a single configuration. This can be done to scale the solution to support more mobile users, or for redundancy. Deployment of multiple Mobile Servers requires a shared data storage using either a Microsoft SQL Server or an Oracle database.
Ellucian Mobile on Wearable Devices
Users can view push notifications on their Android Wear and Apple Watch devices. Users with Apple Watches can also view ILP assignments and maps.
Debugging
Send detailed information from Ellucian Mobile to the log file to support troubleshooting.
Appendices

Install the WAR file

Install the Web Application Archive (WAR) files for Banner, PowerCampus, or Colleague.

Procedure

Retrieve the Ellucian Mobile 5.6.1 install package.
All institutions can download the install package from the Ellucian Downloads. Colleague institutions can also use SA Valet.
Extract the contents of the ZIP file.
Transfer the downloaded WAR file and example-mobileserver-config.groovy file to the server where you installed Tomcat to support Ellucian Mobile.
Stop Tomcat.
Copy the WAR file that represents your student information system (SIS). — for example, banner-mobileserver.war — into the tomcat/webapps directory.
Start Tomcat.
Make note of your path to the ellucianmobile directory.
This path is noted as <tomcat user home> in these directions. If you have not installed Ellucian Mobile on this server before, the ellucianmobile directory is created by the WAR installation and Tomcat restart in the previous steps. In Windows, you might find that the path to ellucianmobile is just C:. You will need this path in the next step: Customize and install the server configuration file.