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Methods for routing traffic for
BlackBerry Dynamics
apps

BlackBerry UEM
provides several options that allow you to control how
BlackBerry Dynamics
traffic is routed. By default, all
BlackBerry Dynamics
app traffic routes directly to the Internet with no web proxy server configurations. This section discusses only configurations that affect overall routing.
Routing for
BlackBerry Dynamics
apps can be changed by the following configurations:
Configuration
Details
Assigned
BlackBerry Dynamics
connectivity profile
  • The only item configured in the default
    BlackBerry Dynamics
    connectivity profile is the Default allowed domain route type, which is set to Direct.
  • Using the default
    BlackBerry Dynamics
    connectivity profile, no internal servers or domains are accessible to
    BlackBerry Dynamics
    apps. You can change the default connectivity profile or create a new profile to allow connectivity to internal servers.
  • For more information, see Create a BlackBerry Dynamics connectivity profile in the Administration content.
BlackBerry Proxy
web proxy server configuration
  • By default,
    BlackBerry Proxy
    is not configured to use a web proxy server. Each
    BlackBerry Proxy
    server attempts to connect directly to the Internet to make connections. This applies to both app server traffic and to
    BlackBerry Dynamics NOC
    connections.
  • For information about configuring
    BlackBerry Proxy
    , see Sending BlackBerry Dynamics app data through an HTTP proxy.
  • In the
    BlackBerry Dynamics
    connectivity profile, you can specify the servers that
    BlackBerry Dynamics
    apps are allowed to access through the firewall using
    BlackBerry Proxy
    . For more information, see Create a BlackBerry Dynamics connectivity profile in the Administration content.
  • Routing traffic through
    BlackBerry Proxy
    allows web browsers and
    BlackBerry Dynamics
    apps on devices to connect to any server behind the firewall that is reachable by
    BlackBerry Proxy
    , and allows you to easily monitor data traffic between
    BlackBerry Dynamics
    apps and your organization's resources.
  • Consider the following when choosing to route data through a
    BlackBerry Proxy
    server:
    • Establishing connections to servers on the Internet can take longer.
    • If you are using a web proxy to allow access to external sites and have settings configured in your proxy to restrict certain sites, when you select the Route all traffic option, you also need to set the proxy properties in
      BlackBerry Proxy
      . Otherwise, apps will not be able to access external sites.
    • BlackBerry Access
      can be configured with a PAC file that determines allowable sites. In this case, the PAC file determines the proxy settings. For more information, see the BlackBerry Access Administration Guide.
App-specific settings
  • App-specific configuration may be required for apps to connect to specific servers (for example, for
    BlackBerry Work
    configured with the URL of the
    Microsoft Exchange Server
    ). Review the documentation for the BlackBerry Dynamics apps to understand which app configurations to apply.
  • BlackBerry Access
    and some third-party apps allow app-level web proxy server configurations. The default configuration for
    BlackBerry Access
    has no web proxy server configuration applied.
  • An app server is a server that a
    BlackBerry Dynamics
    app connects to, such as the URL of a
    Microsoft Exchange Server
    , the URL for
    BEMS
    , the URL for
    Skype for Business
    , or any URL that
    BlackBerry Access
    browses to. The
    BlackBerry Dynamics NOC
    and the
    BlackBerry UEM Core
    server are not app servers.
If you configure and assign a
BlackBerry Dynamics
connectivity profile and a web proxy configuration for
BlackBerry Proxy
servers, the
BlackBerry Dynamics
connectivity profile is always checked first. When traffic arrives at the
BlackBerry Proxy
server, the PAC or web proxy configuration set on the
BlackBerry Proxy
server is evaluated for connectivity. Configuring a web proxy on the
BlackBerry Proxy
server controls how that
BlackBerry Proxy
handles sending traffic out to the Internet, it does not affect how the
BlackBerry Dynamics
app on the device evaluates connections.