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Sending push notification with the MobileFirst Operations Console

The IBM MobileFirst™ Platform Operations Console provides a GUI for an administrator to work with push notification to update credentials, setup tags and send notifications.

For IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation configuration with push notification service enabled, every application created would automatically be registered with push notifications. The application contains configuration information; such as the Apple Push Notification Service (APNs) and Google Cloud Message (GCM) configuration details. This information is required by the push notification service to send messages.

The following topics guides you on configuring your push notification settings, creating tags and sending notifications. We can also go through the steps on how to configure a confidential client and enable scope mapping elements to security checks.

• Configure push notification settings
  You must configure push notification for every app that is created.
• Create tags for push notification
  By creating tags, we can enable push notifications to be sent to subscribers.
• Sending push notifications to subscribers
  After configuring push notification settings and creating tags, we can choose to send either tag-based notifications or broadcast notifications to subscribers.
• Defining scope mapping elements to security checks
  IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation allows mapping custom scope elements to security checks with which we can define application-specific security logic for accessing protected resources.
• Configure a confidential client
  IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation V8.0.0 allows you to connect a confidential (or non-mobile) client to mobile services in a secure way.

Parent topic: Sending push notifications