Blackberry PRD-10459-035 Administration Guide - Page 50

Export the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service certificate to make it available to push applications

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Administration Guide Permitting push applications to make trusted connections to a BlackBerry MDS Connection Service Task Steps Create a self-signed certificate for the BlackBerry MDS Connection a. Service and add it to the key store. b. c. Add a publicly signed certificate to the key store. a. b. c. Type keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA keystore webserver.keystore. Type the required information. To confirm the information that you typed, type Yes. Type keytool -import -trustcacerts -alias tomcat -file -keystore webserver.keystore. Type the key store password. When prompted, click Yes. 3. Copy the key store file to :\Program Files\Research In Motion\BlackBerry Enterprise Server\MDS\webserver. After you finish: Export the certificate for the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service to make it available to other applications. Export the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service certificate to make it available to push applications You must export the certificate for the BlackBerry® MDS Connection Service so that you can import it to the key store of a serverside push application. Before you begin: Add a self-signed or publicly signed certificate for the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service to the key store. 1. On the computer that hosts the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service, navigate to :\Program Files\Java \\bin. 2. At the command prompt, type keytool -export -alias tomcat -file -keystore :\Program Files \Research In Motion\BlackBerry Enterprise Server\MDS\webserver\webserver.keystore -storepass . 3. Type the key store password. After you finish: Import the certificate for the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service to the key store of a push application. Import the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service certificate to the key store of a push application To permit a server-side push application to open trusted connections to the BlackBerry® MDS Connection Service, you must add the certificate for the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service to the key store of the push application. 1. On the computer that hosts the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service, navigate to :\Program Files\Java \\bin. 2. At a command prompt, type keytool -import -trustcacerts -alias -file -keystore . 48

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Task
Steps
Create a self-signed certificate for the BlackBerry MDS Connection
Service and add it to the key store.
a.
Type
keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA -
keystore webserver.keystore
.
b.
Type the required information.
c.
To confirm the information that you typed, type
Yes
.
Add a publicly signed certificate to the key store.
a.
Type
keytool -import -trustcacerts -alias tomcat -file
<trustedserver.cer>
-keystore webserver.keystore
.
b.
Type the key store password.
c.
When prompted, click
Yes
.
3.
Copy the key store file to
<drive>
:\Program Files\Research In Motion\BlackBerry Enterprise Server\MDS\webserver.
After you finish:
Export the certificate for the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service to make it available to other applications.
Export the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service certificate to make it available to push
applications
You must export the certificate for the BlackBerry® MDS Connection Service so that you can import it to the key store of a server-
side push application.
Before you begin:
Add a self-signed or publicly signed certificate for the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service to the key store.
1.
On the computer that hosts the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service, navigate to
<drive>
:\Program Files\Java
\
<JRE_version>
\bin.
2.
At the command prompt, type
keytool -export -alias tomcat -file
<server.cer>
-keystore
<drive>
:\Program Files
\Research In Motion\BlackBerry Enterprise Server\MDS\webserver\webserver.keystore -storepass
<password>
.
3.
Type the key store password.
After you finish:
Import the certificate for the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service to the key store of a push application.
Import the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service certificate to the key store of a push
application
To permit a server-side push application to open trusted connections to the BlackBerry® MDS Connection Service, you must add
the certificate for the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service to the key store of the push application.
1.
On the computer that hosts the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service, navigate to
<drive>
:\Program Files\Java
\
<JRE_version>
\bin.
2.
At a command prompt, type
keytool -import -trustcacerts -alias
<alias>
-file
<server.cer>
-keystore
<application_keystore>
.
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Permitting push applications to make trusted connections to a BlackBerry MDS Connection Service
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