{"id":2446,"date":"2016-04-27T10:10:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T08:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.novaknet.de\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2016-04-28T09:50:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T07:50:59","slug":"ibm-sametime-proxy-updated-apns-certificate-apple-push-notification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.novaknet.de\/?p=2446","title":{"rendered":"IBM Sametime Proxy updated APNS certificate (Apple Push Notification)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The IBM Sametime Proxy Server uses a local certificate<\/span> to\u00a0correctly connect to the Apple push notification service<\/span> (aka APNS) so that you can see a chat request inside your IOs mobile notification screen (otherwise you have to open the IBM Sametime chat app directly to see the chat).<\/p>\n

This is gateway.push.apple.com<\/span> via port 2195<\/span> and feedback.push.apple.com<\/span> via port 2196.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because the local certificate<\/span> has a limited date<\/span>\u00a0it will expire may the 5th 2016<\/span><\/span><\/em>\u00a0and you need to exchange the certificate file on your server (with the updated certificate).<\/p>\n

Just download<\/span> the new apns certificate<\/span> from the IBM fixcentral website<\/span><\/p>\n

IBM documentation: Updated security certificate for Push Notifications (iOS)<\/a><\/p>\n

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To\u00a0check if the new certificate is working just use\u00a0(and download) the\u00a0APNSTest tool „New Sametime Proxy APNs test application<\/a>“ from collaborationben site<\/p>\n

java -jar apnstest.jar <\/a>-k apns-prod.pkcs12<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Beware you need three things to work to connect to APNS<\/p>\n

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  1. You need to resolve the dns\u00a0addresses for gateway.push.apple.com<\/span> and feedback.push.apple.com<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. You need to be able to connect to these addresses via port 2195<\/span> and 2196<\/span>\u00a0(entire 17.0.0.0\/8<\/span> net)
    \n    IP Address Range Used by the Push Service<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. You need a valid apns certificate<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Alternatively you could update to the latest Sametime Proxy fix from april 2016<\/span>, but you have to update the Sametime System Console<\/span> first to fix april 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Sametime System Console Hotfix<\/a> – ST30.25 build or 9.0.1 [April 2016]<\/p>\n

    Cumulative Hotfix for Sametime Proxy<\/a>\u00a0-ST30.25 build or 9.0.1 [April 2016]<\/p>\n

    \n

    APNS explained<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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    • gateway.push.apple.com:2195<\/span> =\u00a0Apple notification server host name and port are used by the Sametime Proxy Server to send Sametime instant messages, meeting invitations, and announcements to iPhone users.\u00a0When a user pauses receipt of messages, the Sametime Proxy Server database holds messages until the user views the messages or the mobile device’s pause time expires.<\/li>\n
    • feedback.push.apple.com:2196<\/span> = Apple feedback service keeps track of which iPhone mobile devices are still valid and sends the information to the Sametime Proxy Server.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The IBM Sametime Proxy Server uses a local certificate to\u00a0correctly connect to the Apple push notification service (aka APNS) so that you can see a chat request inside your IOs mobile notification screen (otherwise you have to open the IBM Sametime chat app directly to see the chat). This is gateway.push.apple.com via port 2195 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sametime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.novaknet.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.novaknet.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.novaknet.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.novaknet.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.novaknet.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.novaknet.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450,"href":"https:\/\/blog.novaknet.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.novaknet.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.novaknet.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.novaknet.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}