| Sun ONE Portal Server, Secure Remote Access 6.2 Administrator's Guide |
About This Guide
This guide explains how to administer the Sun™ Open Net Environment (Sun™ ONE) Portal Server, Secure Remote Access.
Sun™ ONE Portal Server, Secure Remote Access enables remote users to securely access their organization’s network and its services over the internet. Additionally, it gives your organization a secure internet portal, providing access to content, applications, and data to any targeted audience—employees, business partners, or the general public.
Secure Remote Access runs on the Solaris™ 8.0 and 9.0 Operating Systems. This guide contains instructions for configuring and administering Secure Remote Access.
This Preface includes the following sections:
Who Should Read This GuideThis guide assumes that you are a network or system administrator experienced in managing UNIX® systems and TCP/IP networks. You are responsible for installing, configuring and administering Secure Remote Access.
You need root access to the required machines for installing the various components of Secure Remote Access. You also need the required administrative privileges to carry out other operations such as configuring users and services.
What You Need to KnowBefore you administer Secure Remote Access, you need to be familiar with the following:
You also need the following to be able to write Rewriter rules:
How This Book is OrganizedThis book contains the following chapters and appendices:
About This Guide (this chapter)
Chapter 1, "Introduction to Sun ONE Portal Server, Secure Remote Access"
This chapter describes the Sun™ ONE Portal Server, Secure Remote Access product and the relationship between the Sun™ ONE Portal Server product and Secure Remote Access components. It also provides information on administering and configuring Secure Remote Access.
This chapter describes Gateway related concepts and information required for the smooth running of the Gateway.
This chapter describes the Rewriter and provides sample rules and best practices.
This chapter describes NetFile and explains its operation in detail.
This chapter describes how to use the Netlet to run applications securely between users’ remote portal desktops and the servers running applications on your intranet.
Chapter 6, "The Netlet With PDC"
This chapter describes how to configure the client browser’s Java Plugin so that the Netlet can be used with PDC.
This chapter describes certificate management and explains how to install self-signed certificates or certificates from a Certificate Authority.
Chapter 8, "Configuring URL Access Control"
This chapter describes how to allow or deny access to the end-user through the Gateway for specific URLs.
Chapter 9, "Configuring the Gateway"
This chapter describes how to configure Gateway attributes from the Sun™ ONE Identity Server administration console.
Chapter 10, "Configuring the NetFile"
This chapter describes how to configure the NetFile from the Sun™ ONE Identity Server administration console.
Chapter 11, "Configuring the Netlet"
This chapter describes how to configure the Netlet attributes from the Sun™ ONE Identity Server administration console.
Appendix A, "Configuring SSL Accelerators"
This chapter describes how to configure various accelerators for Sun™ Portal Server, Secure Remote Access.
This appendix lists the two-letter country codes that you need to specify during certificate administration.
Appendix C, "Configuration Attributes"
This appendix lists the attributes you set for Sun™ Portal Server, Secure Remote Access on the Sun™ ONE Identity Server administration console.
Document Conventions Used in This GuideMonospaced Font
Monospaced font is used for any text that appears on the computer screen or text that you should type. It is also used for file names, distinguished names, functions, and examples.
Italicized Font
Italicized font is used to represent text that you enter using information that is unique to your installation (for example, variables). It is used for server paths, names, and account IDs.
Square or Straight Brackets
Square (or straight) brackets [] are used to enclose optional parameters. For example, in this document you will see the usage for the xx command described as follows:
xx [options] [action] [component]
The presence of [options], [arguments], and [component] indicates that there are optional parameters that may be added to the xx command.
Command-Line Prompts
Command-line prompts (for example, % for a C-Shell, or $ for a Korn or Bourne shell) are not displayed in the examples. Depending on which operating system environment you are using, you will see a variety of different command-line prompts. However, you should enter the command as it appears in the document unless specifically noted otherwise.
Where to Find Related InformationSecure Remote Access Documentation
Listed below are additional Secure Remote Access documents.
- Sun ONE Portal Server, Secure Remote Access 6.2 Deployment Guide
- Sun ONE Portal Server, Secure Remote Access Attribute Online Help
- Sun ONE Portal Server, Secure Remote Access Netlet Online Help
- Sun ONE Portal Server, Secure Remote Access NetFile Java1 Online Help
- Sun ONE Portal Portal Server, Secure Remote Access NetFile Java2 Online Help
Portal Server Documentation
The Sun™ ONE Portal Server documentation suite includes the following:
Documents Referenced in This Guide
Other documents referenced in this guide:
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Where to Find This Guide OnlineYou can access the Sun technical documentation online at http://docs.sun.com. You can browse the archive or search for a specific book title or subject.
