Create a profile

This section helps you create a new accessory profile. Once you create a new profile, you can then customize it to apply custom settings to push to your devices.

Restrictions for MSPs

If an MSP manages your tenant on your behalf, you can’t create accessory profiles and the Accessory tab becomes inaccessible.

About Accessory IDs

An accessory ID is a unique ID registered to each accessory by the accessory manufacturer.

When you create an accessory profile, you can add up to 10 accessory groups in a profile, wherein each group can contain up to 10,000 accessories. Each accessory can then enroll up to 10 devices.

You can delete an accessory ID if the profile is saved as a draft. Once the profile is saved, you can reassign the license but you can’t delete it. See About the Accessory license for more information on license assignments and restrictions.

Additionally, if an accessory ID is actively associated with a profile, you must first delete the profile prior to deleting the accessory ID.

Create a new accessory profile

First, start creating a profile:

1. On the console, go to Knox Configure.

2. Click Profiles.

3. Click Create new profile > Accessory profile.

4. Enter a profile name and an optional description.

5. Click Next: Configuration mode to set the configuration mode.

Set the configuration mode

1. Here, Accessory edition is the edition configured in the Normal mode by default.

2. Click Next: Enrollment info to configure the device enrollment settings.

Enter the enrollment info

1. For Company information, enter all the details about your company. The device user can view it once enrollment is complete. This includes the Company name and an optional Address.

2. For Support contact details, enter your organization’s support phone number, email address, and website name.

3. Enter the Product name that will be displayed in the product information screen.

4. For Branding, upload image assets to display in the product information screen. If you don’t add any assets, the default generic image is shown.

   1. Select an image for the Background fill. The image can be in PNG or JPG format and mustn’t exceed 2 MB in size.

   2. Select an image as your brand’s logo. The image must have 1:1 aspect ratio and mustn’t exceed 1 MB in size.

5. With Device enrollment, you can customize the user experience when the profile is downloaded:

   1. For Welcome screen, you can opt to Skip welcome screen during the enrollment process. Select this option to add a message to the welcome screen. You can enter up to 400 characters. You can preview the welcome screen text in the right pane.

   2. (Optional) Select Add additional Terms & Conditions and/or Privacy Policy to enter a custom organizational policy the device user must review and agree to in order to use an accessory for device enrollment and access the assets related to the profile.

6. For Accessory for enrollment, add accessories that enable you to push a rebranding profile to a device and enroll it using the Knox Deployment App.

   1. Click Add accessory to generate up to 10 accessory groups in a profile, wherein each group can contain up to 10,000 accessories. Each accessory can then enroll up to 10 devices.

   2. On the Generate accessory ID dialog:

      1. Select an Accessory type from either Cover and NFC card / Buds case.

      2. Enter the Total serial number quantity, which is the maximum number of accessories that can be associated with a profile, up to 10,000. Default quantity is 100.

      3. Enter the Total permitted quantity of devices with serial number, which is the maximum number of devices that a single profile can be deployed to, up to 10 devices.

Rebrand the interface

See Apply custom branding to learn how you can set various rebranding settings for your devices.

When you’re finished configuring the rebranding settings, save the profile as a draft or click Next: Summary to move on to the last step. You can also download the summary as a PDF.

Finally, click Submit to create the profile. You can also partially search a profile by name.

Clone a profile

You can also clone an existing profile and then customize it as needed. To do so:

1. Select the profile you’d like to clone. You can clone one profile at a time.

2. Click Actions > Clone to edit > Confirm.

3. Rename the clone to avoid a naming conflict with the source profile.

4. (Optional) Override the clone’s settings, as needed.