Blackberry PRD-10459-016 Administration Guide - Page 274

Administration Guide Restricting the push application content that users can receive Related topics Specify web address patterns, 262 Create a pull rule, 263 Assign a pull rule to the members of a group, 264 Assign a pull rule to user accounts, 265 Restrict or permit web addresses and Intranet addresses using a pull rule, 263 Restricting the push application content that users can receive By default, a BlackBerry® MDS Connection Service sends push requests from server-side push applications to applications on BlackBerry devices. BlackBerry devices can receive application data and application updates without users requesting the content. You can configure your organization's environment so that only specific server-side push applications can send push requests to BlackBerry devices. You can turn on push authentication to prevent a BlackBerry MDS Connection Service from sending push requests, and create push initiators that permit specific server-side applications to send push requests to BlackBerry devices. To permit specific users to receive push requests on BlackBerry devices, you can create push rules and assign the rules to the users. For more information about push requests, see the BlackBerry Java Development Environment Development Guide. Restrict push applications from sending data to BlackBerry devices You can turn on push authentication to permit only authenticated push applications to send push requests to applications on BlackBerry® devices. 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 authentication options, click Yes. 5. Click Save all. After you finish: To authenticate and permit specific server-side push applications to send push requests to BlackBerry devices, create push initiators. 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 272