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.
Related information
Configuring multiple BlackBerry Enterprise Server instances to use the same BlackBerry Enterprise Server component,
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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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