Lion Server push notifications to iOS 5 only partially working

The complete output is now

sqlite> select * from nodes;

1|/myhost/|1|1|open

2|/CalDAV/myhost/43732BBB-264E-48A1-8A0B-7AAE9E62E9D5/|1|1|open

3|/CalDAV/myhost/wiki-ldapmigratieru/|1|1|open

4|/CalDAV/myhost/wiki-ldapmigratieru/calendar/|1|1|open

5|/CalDAV/myhost/wiki-tudelftpwm/|1|1|open

6|/CalDAV/myhost/wiki-tudelftpwm/calendar/|1|1|open

7|/CalDAV/myhost/43732BBB-264E-48A1-8A0B-7AAE9E62E9D5/calendar/|1|1|open

8|/CalDAV/myhost/42080DC3-FB3A-4E22-8CE1-94A294348AE2/|1|1|open

9|/CardDAV/myhost/43732BBB-264E-48A1-8A0B-7AAE9E62E9D5/|1|1|open

10|/CardDAV/myhost/43732BBB-264E-48A1-8A0B-7AAE9E62E9D5/addressbook/|1|1|open

11|/CalDAV/myhost/ba8f4b37-3da4-4ea7-b666-a0c1ecb31912/|1|1|open

12|/CardDAV/myhost/42080DC3-FB3A-4E22-8CE1-94A294348AE2/|1|1|open

in pubsub.db.orig there were much more entries.

Note that ports 2195 and 2196 are not for incoming connections to OS X server, those are the ports OS X server connect *to* when actually sending notifications out to the APNS servers (i.e., gateway.push.apple.com and feedback.push.apple.com). So the firewall needs to allow outbound traffic on those two ports.

Hi there.

This seems to be almost exactly the problem I've been fighting with for days now. But there is one crucial difference:

Using "calendarserver_monitor_notifications myuser" results in an error "Unable to determin xmpp server name" and leads to entries in the caldav-error-log "Could not create node /CalDAV/myhost/myuid" and ""Could not create node /CardDAV/myhost/myuid"

I checked and rechecked every configuration file I could find regarding the notification services and can't find what's causing this. I renamed pubsub.db, items.db and apnbridge.db - they all got recreated, but don't contain any nodes and the mailserver is flooding my log with "push_notify: discarting message; not connected to notification server"

Any ideas?

Is the notification server running? Try this:

# ps aux | grep jabberd_notification

You should see several matching processes:

_jabber 171 0.0 0.1 2451408 5180 ?? S 8Nov11 15:31.14 /usr/libexec/jabberd/s2s -c /etc/jabberd_notification/s2s.xml

_jabber 169 0.0 0.1 2451380 5292 ?? S 8Nov11 15:41.96 /usr/libexec/jabberd/c2s -c /etc/jabberd_notification/c2s.xml

_jabber 168 0.0 0.1 2437448 4916 ?? S 8Nov11 0:40.77 /usr/libexec/jabberd/router -c /etc/jabberd_notification/router.xml

_jabber 167 0.0 0.1 2451960 5588 ?? S 8Nov11 15:23.40 /usr/libexec/jabberd/sm -c /etc/jabberd_notification/sm.xml

_jabber 94 0.0 0.1 2438536 4248 ?? Ss 8Nov11 0:00.07 perl -w -x /usr/libexec/jabberd/jabberd -c /etc/jabberd_notification/jabberd.cfg

root 58572 0.0 0.0 2425480 184 s003 R+ 9:27AM 0:00.00 egrep jabberd_notification

Someone else just mentioned to me that they had recently updated their SSL cert using Server.app and that hadn't updated the jabberd_notification configuration. Are you seeing a message like this in /var/log/caldavd/error.log by chance:

XMPP Initialization failed: [Failure instance: Traceback: <class 'twisted.words.protocols.jabber.xmlstream.FeatureNotAdvertized'>

Also check /var/log/system.log for errors if you haven't already, since that is where the notification server sends its output.

Yeah, the processes are all running and yes, the "FeatureNotAdvertized" error did pop up but has been gone since I reconfigured our SSL configuration, which caused Apache to go nuts (but I fixed that, too).

/var/log/system.log just keeps repeating

server push_notify [2047]: notification server connect failed, will retry in 300 seconds

and

server push_notify [2047]: discarding message; not connected to notification server

but also errors like

server jabberd/s2s [2800]; [7] [192.168.0.x, port=5269] write error: Broken pipe (32)

which pop up irregularly

For what it's worth, I managed to get rid of the push_notify errors (and restore functioning notifications) after a SSL cert swap by manually updating the notification cert - it was still pointed at the old cert/key combo. Details in another thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3222744?answerId=17534479022#17534479022

This worked perfectly for me