Blackberry PRD-10459-003 Administration Guide - Page 274

Administration Guide Restricting the push application content that users can receive Create push initiators for push applications Push initiators specify which server-side push applications are authenticated and permitted to send push requests to applications on BlackBerry® devices. For push initiators to work, you must turn on push authentication for the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service. You can configure several server-side push applications to use the same push initiator (that is, to use the same authorization password) if your organization's development environment permits it. Verify that the authorization HTTP header in push requests from server-side push applications matches the name and password that you specify for the push initiator. Before you begin: Turn on push authentication for the appropriate instances of the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service. 1. In the BlackBerry Administration Service, in the Servers and components menu, expand BlackBerry Solution topology > BlackBerry Domain > Component view. 2. Click MDS Connection Service. 3. Click Edit component. 4. On the Push initiators tab, in the Name field, type the name of the server-side application that you want to permit to send push requests to BlackBerry devices. 5. In the Credentials field, type the password for the server-side push application. 6. Click the Add icon. 7. Click Save all. After you finish: Create a push initiator for each server-side push application that you want to permit to send push requests to BlackBerry devices. To specify which users can receive push requests from authenticated push applications, turn on push authorization and create push rules. Turn on push authorization If you turned on push authentication and created push initiators to specify which push applications can send push requests, you can create push rules to specify which users are permitted to receive authenticated push requests. The BlackBerry® MDS Connection Service can apply push rules only if you turn on push authorization for the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service. Before you begin: • Turn on push authentication. • Create push initiators to authenticate specific push applications. 1. In the BlackBerry Administration Service, in the Servers and components menu, expand BlackBerry Solution topology > BlackBerry Domain > Component view > MDS Connection Service. 2. Click the instance that you want to change. 3. Click Edit instance. 4. In the Access control section, in the Push authorization drop-down list, click Yes. 5. Click Save all. 272