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Enabling SSL Acceleration for Web Server and Web Client Communications

This topic describes how to configure SSL acceleration for communications between the Siebel Web server and Siebel Web Clients.

This task is a step in Process of Configuring Secure Communications.

If you are using a third party HTTP-based load balancer for your Siebel Server load balancing and you want to off-load the processing of SSL encryption and decryption algorithms to the hardware accelerator on your load balancer, then you must enable the EnforceSSL parameter. Doing so improves application performance and ensures that SSL is used to encrypt URLs. EnforceSSL is False by default. To enforce the use of SSL acceleration, you change the EnforceSSL parameter for an Application Object Manager to True.

To enable SSL acceleration

1. To enable SSL acceleration, set the Application Object Manager parameter, EnforceSSL, to True as follows:
   1. Navigate to the Administration - Server Configuration screen, then the Servers view.
   2. In the Siebel Servers list, select the Siebel Server of interest.
   3. Click the Components view tab.
   4. In the Components list, select the Application Object Manager of interest, such as Call Center Object Manager (ENU).
   5. Click the Parameters subview tab.
   6. In the Parameter field, perform a case-sensitive query on EnforceSSL.
   7. Click in the Value on Restart field and type True.
2. Set the value of the SecureLogin and SecureBrowse parameters to FALSE.

   For information on these parameters, see Parameters for Application Object Manager.

3. Restart the Siebel Servers.