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Push Notification Issues - Lion Server 10.7

Hey All,

Am having a few issues with Push on Lion, it seems to work for a short period of time after setting up, then seems to stop being able to push. Today I woke up to a server running at a constant ~60% processor utilisation and this error repeating itself over and over again in the log...

Jul 29 15:11:05 mail push_notify[105]: discarding message; not connected to notification server

There is also single errors from com.apple.APNBRidge saying "Disconnected from apn feedback server feedback.push.apple.com for topic com.apple.mail.xserver.xxxxxxxxxxxx: error (null) - there is one for each different service push supports and they are straight after connect messages.

Do Push services require any ports opening up? I did have the server set up in DMZ for a while but it still managed to fall over, so I took it back out. However I'd imagine the server is sending notifications out rather than listening in for anything.

I've reinstalled this server around 5 times now and am reaching the end of my patience! Everytime Push starts working then stops, last night Web services fell over and I was getting database connection errors, as there were push notification errors in the log, I un-ticked and re-ticked the Apple Push notification checkbox and things came back up. It's a shame it seems very temperamental as it's such a huge feature. I have this one set with a self signed cert, set up as per when you enable profile server. This is also trusted by any devices testing.

I've turned Push off for the moment as it seems intent on bringing down the rest of the services I have set up 😟 Just turned off Mail and the processor use dropped to almost nothing, restarted it and things are now calm.

Also anyone know how to set up automount's from the command line? My production environment has NFS sharepoints for User directories - for the purpose of being able to use fast user switching on client machines (AFP doesn't support this). Exports are easy as are in a file, but I'm struggling with the automounts.

Any ideas?

Cheers all.

Posted on Jul 29, 2011 8:01 AM

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waider

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Mar 19, 2012 8:49 AM in response to Fred de Gembloux

Yup, I mentioned this a few posts down from my original suggestion - not sure if this was a cut & paste error on my part or a change from 10.7.2 to 10.7.3

Apr 29, 2012 7:04 PM in response to guillame

The disconnect from the feedback server is not an error, although the null would suggest otherwise. The feedback server needs to be polled intermittently to see if there's any devices that are no longer registered or responding to the profile manager's requests -- in essence, this is the feedback loop from the server (on Apple's side) to let your server know "there's nothing to report."

Rahan75

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Aug 14, 2012 3:44 AM in response to drr105

Hi,

My turn to have a Notification pb, here is the error that shows in the log :

[twistedcaldav.notify.Notifier#warn] Could not create node /CalDAV/myserver.com/6391362A-D9D8-46B8-9568-4649C42F0824/

2012-08-14 12:38:25+0200 [-] [caldav-3] [-] [twistedcaldav.notify.Notifier#warn] Could not create node /CalDAV/lmyserver.com/6391362A-D9D8-46B8-9568-4649C42F0824/

any idea ...

Thanks !

hoops7

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Nov 9, 2012 11:12 PM in response to drr105

Hi I had this exact issue with clean install of Lion Server 10.7.5 with no services initiated except the web service was turned on and I had also set valid verified SSL certificate. The same repeating error arose after restarting the server -

com.apple.APNBridge[628]: Unable to find identity com.apple.APNBridge.https

com.apple.APNBridge[628]: Unable to configure SSL. Not starting HTTP Server

jabberd_notification/router[150]: [127.0.0.1, port=49541] connect

jabberd_notification/router[150]: [127.0.0.1, port=49541] disconnect

com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.APNBridge[628]): Exited with code: 1

com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.APNBridge): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

As noted by the gurus in this post (and other key posts thanks Mark 23 Beno44 Drizzt others) the issue is with the SSL Certificate set for APN.

The common cause of this issue is that when you set up OD by pressing the "configure" button in ProM settings (as per numerous authoritative recommendations - 318, ToddOlthoff, Ars Technica to create a stable ProM) which then creates an OD master -

= this creates a new certificate (which you can see by pressing the SSL Certificate "edit" button which has the title "[your domain name].com - [your domain name].com OD Intermediate CA"

Alternatively it is in keychain and although it is headed with [your domain name].com it is issued by "IntermediateCA_[your DOMAIN NAME].COM_1" (note capitals).

ARS TECNICA noted the creation of the 2nd certificate and recommended to configure the OD separately.

The solution is to set the "OD" certificate with the SSL "edit button

Watch the system log (from the Console App (in the Utilities folder)) as it now loads jabber notifications etc.

The extra solution is that you can set the SSL certificate for OD in SAdmin/Settings/LDAP checkbox to "Enable SSL" then select your Verified 3rd Party SSL Certificate from the drop down menu as the SSL for OD

then back at SApp reset your 3rd Party certificate again

watch the system log loading jabber notifications as before

Now that the OD is set with the right SSL the Certificate you set in SApp will match

Hope this helps

Push Notification Issues - Lion Server 10.7