Troubleshooting push messaging

This information can help you troubleshoot push messaging.

Why are there sometimes delays sending push messages?

The following types of delays might be associated with push messages for Mobile Services:

• Waiting for Analytics hits

  Every report suite has a setting to determine when to process incoming Analytics hits. The default is every 1 hour.

  The actual processing of Analytics hits might take up to 30 minutes, but is typically 15-20 minutes. For example, a report suite processes hits every hour. When you factor the required processing time of 30 minutes max, it can take up to 90 minutes for an incoming hit to be available for a push message. If a user launched the app at 9:01 AM, the hit would appear in the Mobile Services UI as a new unique user between 10:15 to 10:30 AM.

• Waiting for the Push Service

  The Push Service (APNS or GCM) might not immediately send out the message. Although uncommon, there have been occurrences of wait times up to 5-10 minute. You can verify that the push message has been sent to the Push Service by looking in the Report view of the Push Message, finding the message in the Message History table, and looking at the Published count.

  TIP

  The push services do not guarantee that a message will be sent. For more information about the reliability of services, see the appropriate documentation:

  • APNS: Quality of Service
  • FCM: Lifetime of a Message

Why is my Android GCM API key invalid?

• Invalid API key

  Your API key might be invalid for the following reasons:

  • The API key that you provided is not a server key with the correct GCM API key value.
  • The server key has allowed the IPs and is blocking Adobe’s servers from sending a push message.

• Determine the validity of the API key

  To determine the validity of your API key, run the following command:

  # api_key=YOUR_API_KEY
  #curl--header"Authorization:key=$api_key"\
      --headerContent-Type:"application/json"\
      https://gcm-http.googleapis.com/gcm/send\
      -d"{\"registration_ids\":[\"ABC\"]}"
  

  A returned 401 HTTP status code means that your API key is invalid. Otherwise, you will see something similar to this:

  {"multicast_id":6782339717028231855,"success":0,"failure":1,
  canonical_ids":0,"results":[{"error":"InvalidRegistration"}]}
  

  You can also check the validity of a registration token by replacing "ABC" with the token.

Why is my APNS cert not working?

Your APNS certificate might be invalid for the following reasons:

• You might be using a sandbox certificate instead of the production certificate.
• You are using a new production/sandbox certificate that is not supported.
• You are using .p8 file instead of a .p12 file.

Resolving push message failures

The following example illustrates how you can resolve a push failure when using a VRS.

The following customer has two iOS apps:

• App Name: PhotoShop_app_iOS
  • Parent RSID: AllAdobe PhotoShop_apps
  • VRSID: PhotoShop_iOS_app_SF
  • VRSID Definition Segment: a.appid contains "PhotoShop_iOS_app_SF"
• App Name: PhotoShop_app_iOS
  • Parent RSID: AllAdobe PhotoShop_apps
  • RSID: PhotoShop_iOS_app_LA
  • VRSID Definition Segment: a.os contains "iOS"

In this example, if a Photoshop employee sends a push to the PhotoShop_iOS_app_SF app, all PhotoShop_iOS_app_SF app users receive the push message as expected. But, if the employee sends a message to the PhotoShop_iOS_app_LA app, because its VRSID Definition Segment is incorrect (iOS instead of a.os contains "PhotoShop_iOS_app_LA"), the message is sent to all iOS users in AllAdobe PhotoShop_apps. Although the message still goes to PhotoShop_iOS_app_LA users, the message also blocklists the push IDs for PhotoShop_iOS_app_SF users because the PhotoShop_iOS_app_SF app has a different certificate. If the segment had been defined as a.os contains "PhotoShop_iOS_app_LA", the push message would have been sent to only PhotoShop_iOS_app_LA users.

If passed with the PhotoShop_IOS_app_LA push certificate, the push identifiers for the PhotoShop_iOS_app_SF come back as invalid.

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