Administration Guide

Configuring the BlackBerry Enterprise Server environment

Configuring certain BlackBerry Enterprise Server components to use proxy servers

You can configure the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service and the BlackBerry Collaboration Service to use proxy servers to access web addresses on the Internet and your organization's intranet. You should use a proxy method that is consistent with the proxy method that other applications and servers in your organization use to access web content.

Proxy servers typically do not permit network traffic between servers that are on the same side of the firewall, so you can configure certain BlackBerry Enterprise Server components to use a .pac file, or to access the Internet directly through a proxy server. You can also configure multiple proxy servers to manage traffic to specific web addresses, and you can specify URLs that the BlackBerry Enterprise Server components can access without using a proxy server.

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Configure a BlackBerry Enterprise Server component to use a .pac file

You can configure the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service and the BlackBerry Collaboration Service to use a .pac file. The BlackBerry Enterprise Server components support only one .pac file.

1.In the BlackBerry Administration Service, in the Servers and components menu, expand BlackBerry Solution topology > BlackBerry Domain > Component view.

2.Expand the appropriate BlackBerry Enterprise Server component.

3.Click the instance that you want to change.

4.Click Edit instance.

5.On the Proxy mappings tab, in the Universal resource locator field, type the regular expression for the web address that you want the proxy mapping rule to control.

6.In the Proxy type drop-down list, perform one of the following actions:

To detect a .pac file automatically, click AUTO.

To specify the location of the .pac file, click PAC. In the Proxy string field, type the proxy server name, port number, and location of the .pac file using the following format: <proxy_server>:<port>/<pac_filepath>/ <pac_filename>.

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