Using the Samsung Knox Service Plugin with Android Enterprise Devices
Before you begin
You can use the Knox Service Plugin (KSP) for all Android Enterprise deployment types: Work Managed, Work Profile, and COPE starting with SOTI MobiControl version 15.6.1 and later. Support differs by Android OS level:
- Android 9.0, 10.0: Fully managed device - Device Owner (DO), Work Profile – Profile Owner (PO), fully managed device with a Work Profile, and Android dedicated devices (COSU) (Corporate-Owned Single Use) mode.
- Android 11 and later: Fully managed device - Device Owner (DO), Work Profile on personally owned devices (PO), Work Profile on company-owned devices (WP-C), and Android dedicated devices (COSU).
- All devices must be running Samsung Knox 3.2.1 and later.
About this task
The KSP is Samsung’s OEMConfig based solution that enables administrators to use a wide range of Knox management features within SOTI MobiControl as soon as they are commercially available in the market.
You can find more information in Samsung's KSP Administration Guide and on the KSP page in Google Play.
To learn about obtaining a free Knox Platform for Enterprise (KPE) license, and how to activate and validate your license, see Knox Fundamentals - Knox Licenses.
Procedure
- To use the KSP, create a new profile for Android Enterprise Devices as described in Creating a Profile.
- In the Configurations tab, click the Add Configuration button and Select OEM Config: Samsung from the Email & Others section.
-
Scroll through the available configurations, click the
Expand button to open a group of configurations, where
you can enable sub-configurations by switching on their applicable toggles.
Clicking
Reset Configurations resets all the configurations within
a group.
- Click Save.
Results
The devices assigned to your profile will follow the device-wide policies you selected. To make changes to the policies, edit the profile as described in Editing a Profile, then click the Configurations tab > Samsung:
