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Sun ONE Portal Server, Secure Remote Access 6.2 Administrator's Guide

Appendix C
Configuration Attributes

This appendix describes attributes that you can configure for Sun™ ONE Portal Server, Secure Remote Access through the Sun ONE Identity Server administration console from the Service Configuration tab.


Access List Service

Table C-1 lists the Access List service attributes. The first column contains the attribute, the second column contains the default value, if there is one, and the third column contains the description for that attribute.

Table C-1  Access List Service Attributes

Attribute

Default Value

Description

URL Deny List

 

List of URLs that end-users cannot access through the gateway.

URL Allow List:

*

List of URLs that end-users can access through the gateway.

Hosts for Which SSO is Disabled

 

Disables single sign-on for a list of hosts.

Enable SSO per Session

 

Enables single sign-on for a session.

Allowed Auth levels

*

Indicates how much to trust an authentication.Use an asterisk to allow all authentication levels. For information on authentication levels, see the Sun ONE Identity Server Administration Guide.


Gateway Service

When you click the Gateway service, the right pane displays a button to create a new profile and a list of any gateway profiles that have been created.

If you click New, the next pane asks you to enter the new gateway profile name. You have the option to use the default template or a previously created gateway profile as the template.

If you click one of the listed gateway profile names, a list of tabs are presented. They are:

Core

Table C-2 lists the Gateway service core attributes. The first column contains the attribute, the second column contains the default value, if there is one, and the third column contains the description for that attribute.

Table C-2  Gateway Service Core Attributes

Attribute

Default Value

Description

Enable HTTPS Connections

Checked

Enables HTTPS connections.

HTTPS Port

443

Specifies the HTTPS port.

Enable HTTP Connections

Unchecked

Enables HTTP connections.

HTTP Port

80

Specifies the HTTP port.

Enable Rewriter Proxy

Unchecked

Enables secure HTTP traffic between the Gateway and the intranet. The Rewriter Proxy and the Gateway use the same gateway profile.

Rewriter Proxy List

 

Lists the Rewriter Proxies.

Enable Netlet

Checked

Enables security for TCP/IP (such as Telnet and SMTP), HTTP applications, and fixed port applications.

Enable Netlet Proxy

Unchecked

Enhances security for Netlet traffic between the Gateway and the intranet by extending the secure tunnel from the client, through the Gateway to the Netlet Proxy residing on the intranet. Disable if you do not want to use applications with Portal Server.

Netlet Proxy Hosts

 

Lists Netlet Proxy Hosts, in the format: host hostname:port

Enable Cookie Management

Unchecked

Tracks and manages user sessions for all web sites that the user is permitted to access. (Does not apply to the cookies used by the Portal Server to track Portal Server user sessions).

Enable HTTP Basic Authentication

Unchecked

Saves the username and password so that users need not re-enter their credentials when they revisit BASIC-protected web sites.

Enable Persistent HTTP Connections

Checked

Enables HTTP persistent connections at the Gateway to prevent sockets being opened for every object (such as images and style sheets) in the web pages.

Maximum Number of Requests per Persistent Connection

10

Specifies the number of requests per persistent connection.

Timeout after which Persistent Socket gets Closed

50

Specifies the amount of time that needs to lapse before sockets are closed.

Grace Timeout to Account for Turnaround Time

20

Specifies the grace amount of time for the request to reach the gateway after the browser has sent i and the time between gateway sending the response and the browser actually recieving it.

Forward Cookie URLs

List of Portal Server URLs that can be accessed through the gateway

Enables servlets and CGIs to receive the Portal Server's cookie and use the APIs to identify the user.

Maximum Connection Queue Length

50

Specifies the maximum concurrent connections that the Gateway can accept.

Gateway Timeout (milliseconds)

120000

Specifies the time interval in millisecondsbefore the Gateway times out its connection with the browser.

Maximum Thread Pool Size

200

Specifies the maximum number of threads that can be pre-created in the Gateway thread pool.

Cached Socket Timeout

200000

Specifies the time interval in milliseconds before the Gateway times out its connection with the Portal Server.

Portal Server List

List of Portal Server URLs that can be accessed through the gateway

Specifies Portal Servers in the format http://portal-server-name:port -number. The Gateway tries to contact each of the Portal Servers listed in a round robin manner to service the requests.

Server Retry Interval

2

Specifies the time interval between requests to try to start the Portal Server, Rewriter Proxy or Netlet Proxy after it becomes un-available (such as a crash or it was brought down).

Store External Server Cookies

Unchecked

Allows the Gateway to store and manage cookies for any third party application or server that is accessed through the Gateway.

Obtain Session from URL

Unchecked

Encodes session information as part of the URL, whether cookies are supported or not. The Gateway uses this session information found in the URL for validation rather than using the session cookie that is sent from the client’s browser.

Mark Cookies as secure

Unchecked

Marks cookies as secure. The Enbale Cookie Management option must be enabled.

Proxies

Table C-3 lists the Gateway service proxies attributes. The first column contains the attribute, the second column contains the default value, if there is one, and the third column contains the description for that attribute.

Table C-3  Gateway Service Proxies Attributes

Attribute

Default Value

Description

Use Proxy

Unchecked

Enables usage of web proxies.

Use Webproxy URLs

 

Lists the URLs that the Gateway needs to contact only through the webproxies listed in the Proxies for Domains and Subdomains list, even if the Use Proxy option is disabled.

Do Not Use Webproxy URLs

 

Lists URLs that the Gateway can connect directly to.

Proxies for Domains and Subdomains

The domain of the portal server (For example, sesta.com)

Specifies which proxy to use to contact specific subdomains in specific domains.

Proxy Password List

 

Specifies the user name and password required for the Gateway to authenticate to a specified proxy server, if the proxy server requires authentication to access some or all the sites.

Enable PAC support

Unchecked

Specifies that the information provided in the Proxies for Domains and Subdomains field is to be ignored.

PAC File location

 

Specifies the location of files to be used for PAC support.

Tunnel Netlet via Web Proxy

Unchecked

Extends the secure tunnel from the client, through the Gateway to the web proxy that resides in the intranet.

Security

Table C-4 lists the Gateway service security attributes. The first column contains the attribute, the second column contains the default value, if there is one, and the third column contains the description for that attribute.

Table C-4  Gateway Service Security Attributes

Attribute

Default Value

Description

Non-authenticated URLs

/portal/desktop/images

/amserver/login_images

/portal/desktop/css

/amserver/jss

/amconsole/console/css

/portal/searchadmin/console/js

/amconsole/console/js

/amserver/css

Specifies URLs that do not need any authentication, such as directories that contain images.

Certificate-enabled Gateway hosts

 

Lists the certificate-enabled Gateway hosts.

Allow 40-bit Browse

Checked

Allows 40-bit (weak) Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connections. If you do not select this option, only 128-bit connections are supported.

Enable SSL Version 2.0

Checked

Enables SSL version 2.0.

Disabling SSL 2.0 means that browsers that support only the older SSL 2.0 will not be able to authenticate to Secure Remote Access..

Enable SSL Cipher Selection

Unchecked

Enables SSL cipher selection. You have the option of to support all the pre-packaged ciphers, or you can select the required ciphers individually. You can select specific SSL ciphers for each Gateway instance.

SSL2 Ciphers

All the available SSL2 Ciphers are selected

Lists the SSL version 2 ciphers you can choose.

SSL3 Ciphers

All the available SSL3 Ciphers are selected

Lists the SSL version 3 ciphers you can choose.

TLS Ciphers

All the available TLS Ciphers are selected

Lists the TLS ciphers.

Enable SSL Version 3.0

Checked

Enables SSL version 3.0.

Disabling SSL 3.0 means that browsers that support only the SSL 3.0 will not be able to authenticate to Secure Remote Access. This ensures a greater level of security.

Disable Null Ciphers

Unchecked

Disables null ciphers.

Trusted SSL Domain List

 

Lists the trusted SSL domains.

Rewriter

The Rewriter tab has two subsections:

Basic

Table C-5 lists the Gateway service Rewriter basic attributes. The first column contains the attribute, the second column contains the default value, if there is one, and the third column contains the description for that attribute.

Table C-5  Gateway Service Rewriter Attributes - Basic

Attribute

Default Value

Description

Enable Rewriting of All URIs

Unchecked

Specifies that any URL is rewritten without checking against the entries in the Proxies for Domains and Subdomains list.

URI to RuleSet Mappings

*://*.<Portal Server Domain>*/portal/*|default_gateway_ruleset

*/portal/NetFileOpenFileServlet*|null_ruleset

*|generic_ruleset

REPLACE_WITH_IPLANET_MAIL_SERVER_NAME|iplanet_mail_ruleset

REPLACE_WITH_EXCHANGE_SERVER_NAME|exchange_2000sp3_owa_ruleset

*://*.<Portal Server Domain>*/amconsole/*|default_gateway_ruleset

REPLACE_WITH_INOTES_SERVER_NAME|inotes_ruleset

http*://*/portal/NetFileController*|null_ruleset

Associates a domain with the ruleset using the URI to RuleSet Mappings list. Rulesets are created under Portal Server Configuration in the Identity Server administration console.

Parser to MIME Mappings

JAVASCRIPT=application/x-java

XML=text/xml

HTML=text/html;text/htm;text/x-component;text/wml;text/vnd.wap.wml

CSS=text/css

Associates new MIME types with HTML, JAVASCRIPT, CSS or XML. Separate multiple entries with a semicolon or a comma.

Default Domain Subdomain

The domain of the Portal Server installation

Resolves a host name to a default domain and subdomain.

Advanced

Table C-6 lists the Gateway service Rewriter advanced attributes. The first column contains the attribute, the second column contains the default value, if there is one, and the third column contains the description for that attribute.

Table C-6  Gateway Service Rewriter Attributes - Advanced

Attribute

Default

Description

Not to Rewrite URI List

 

Lists the URIs not to rewrite. Note: Adding #* to this list allows URIs to be rewritten, even when the href rule is part of the ruleset.

Enable MIME Guessing

Unchecked

Enables MIME guessing when MIME is not sent. You must add data to the Parser to URI Mappings list box.

Parser to URI Mappings

HTML=*.html;*.htm;*.htc;*.cgi;

XML=*.xml

CSS=*.css

JAVASCRIPT=*.js

Maps a parser to the URI. Multiple URIs are separated by a semicolon.

For example HTML=*.html; *.htm;*Servlet

means that the HTML The Rewriter is used to rewrite the content for any page with a html, htm, or Servlet extension.

Enable Obfuscation

 

Allows the Rewriter to rewrite a URI so that the Intranet URL of a page is not seen.

Obfuscator Seed String

SECRET_KEY

Specifies a seed string used for obfuscation of a URI. It is a random string generated by an obfuscation algorithm.

Not to Obscure URI List

 

Specifies Internet URIs not to be obscured. This is used when applications (such as an applet) require an Internet URI

For example if you added

*/Applet/Param*

to the list box, the URL would not be obfuscated if the content URI http://abc.com/Applet/Param1.html is matched in the ruleset rule.

Make Gateway protocol same as Original URI Protocol

 

Enables the Rewriter to use a consistent protocol to access the referred resources in the HTML content.

This applies only to static URIs, not to dynamic URIs generated in Javascript.

Logging

Table C-7 lists the Gateway service logging attributes. The first column contains the attribute, the second column contains the default value, if there is one, and the third column contains the description for that attribute.

Table C-7  Gateway Service Logging Attributes

Attribute

Default Value

Description

Enable Logging

Unchecked

Enables logging.

Enable per Session Logging

Unchecked

Enables capture of minimum log information such as Client Address, Request Type, and Destination Host.

Enable Detailed per Session Logging

Unchecked

Enables capture of detailed log information such as Client, Request Type, Destination Host, Type of Request, Client Requested URL, Client Post Data size, SessionID, Response Result code, and Complete Response size.

Note: Enable per Session Logging must be enabled.

Enable Netlet Logging

Unchecked

Specifies if logging is enabled. If so the following information is captured: Start time, Source, Address, Source port, Server address, Server port(s), Stop time, Status (start or stop)


NetFile Service

When you click the NetFile Service, the right pane displays tabs.They are:

Hosts

The Hosts tab has two subsections:

Config

Table C-8 lists the NetFile hosts configuration attributes. The first column contains the attribute, the second column contains the default value, if there is one, and the third column contains the description for that attribute.

Table C-8  NetFile Service Hosts Config Attributes

Attribute

Default Value

Description

OS Character Set

Unicode(UTF-8)

Specifies the character set used as the default encoding for communicating with hosts.

Host Detection Order

WIN,NETWARE,FTP,NFS

Specifies the host detection order.

Common Hosts

 

Specifies hosts to be available through the NetFile to all remote NetFile users.

Default Domain

Domain of the Portal Server

Specifies the default domain that the NetFile needs to use to contact allowed hosts.

Default Windows Domain/Workgroup

 

Specifies the default Windows domain or workgroup which the users choose to access a Windows host.

Default WINS/DNS Server

 

Specifies the WINS/DNS server that NetFile uses to access windows hosts.

Access

Table C-9 lists the NetFile service hosts access attributes. The first column contains the attribute, the second column contains the default value, if there is one, and the third column contains the description for that attribute.

Table C-9  NetFile Service Hosts Access Attributes

Attribute

Default Value

Description

Allow Access to Windows Hosts

Checked

Allows access to windows hosts.

Allow Access to FTP Hosts

Checked

Allows access to FTP hosts.

Allow Access to NFS Hosts

Checked

Allows access to NFS hosts.

Allow Access to Netware Hosts

Checked

Allows access to Netware hosts.

Allowed Hosts

*

Specifies hosts that users can access through the NetFile.

Denied Hosts

 

Specifies hosts that users cannot access through the NetFile.

Permissions

If you disable these options after the user has started using the NetFile, the change takes effect only if the user logs out of the NetFile and logs in again.

Table C-10 lists the NetFile service permission attributes.The first column contains the attribute, the second column contains the default value, if there is one, and the third column contains the description for that attribute.

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Table C-10  NetFile Service Permissions Attributes

Attribute

Default Value

Description

Allow File Rename

Checked

Allows users to rename files.

Allow File/Folder Deletion

Checked

Allows users to delete files and folders.

Allow File Upload

Checked

Allows users to upload files.

Allow File/Folder Download

Checked

Allows users to download files and folders.

Allow File Search

Checked

Allows users to search.

Allow File Mail

Checked

Allows file mailing.

Allow File Compression

Checked

Allows file compression.

Allow Changing User Id

Checked

Allows user to use a different ID.

Allow Changing Windows Domains

Checked

Allows users to change windows domains.

.

View

Table C-11 lists the NetFile Service view attributes. The first column contains the attribute, the second column contains the default value, if there is one, and the third column contains the description for that attribute.

Table C-11  NetFile Service View Attributes

Attribute

Default Value

Description

Window Size (in pixels)

700|400

Specifies the size of the NetFile window in pixels on the user’s desktop. If you enter an invalid value, the NetFile uses the default value.

Window Location

100|50

Specifies the location where the NetFile window displays on the user’s desktop. If you enter an invalid value, the NetFile uses the default value.

Operations

The Operations tab has the following subsections:

Traffic

Table C-12 lists the NetFile service operations traffic attributes. The first column contains the attribute, the second column contains the default value, if there is one, and the third column contains the description for that attribute.

Table C-12  NetFile Service Operations - Traffic Attributes

Attribute

Default Value

Description

Temporary Directory Location

/tmp

Specifies a temporary directory for various NetFile file operations.

Ensure that the ID with which the web server is running (such as nobody or noaccess) has rwx permissions for the specified directory. Also ensure that the ID has rx permissions for the entire path to the required temporary directory.

You may want to create a separate temporary directory for the NetFile. If you specify a temporary directory that is common to all modules of the Portal Server, the disk may quickly run out of space. The NetFile will not work if the temporary directory has no space.

File Upload Limit (in MB)

5

Specifies the maximum size of the files that can be uploaded. If you enter an invalid value, the NetFile resets the value to the default. Ensure that you type an integer value.

You can specify different file upload size limits for different users.

Search

Table C-13 lists the NetFile service operations search attributes. The first column contains the attribute, the second column contains the default value, if there is one, and the third column contains the description for that attribute.

Table C-13  NetFile Service Operations - Search Attributes

Attribute

Default Value

Description

Search Directories Limit:

100

Specifies the maximum number of directories that will be searched in a single search operation.

Compression

Table C-14 lists the NetFile service operations compression attributes.The first column contains the attribute, the second column contains the default value, if there is one, and the third column contains the description for that attribute.

Table C-14  NetFile Service Operations - Compression Attributes

Attribute

Default Value

Description

Default Compression Type

Zip

Specifies either Zip or Gzip compression type.

Default Compression Level

6

Specifies the compression level, a number between 1 and 9.

General

Table C-15 lists the Netfile service general attributes. The first column contains the attribute, the second column contains the default value, if there is one, and the third column contains the description for that attribute.

Table C-15  NetFile Service - General Attribute

Attribute

Default Value

Description

MIME-types Configuration File Location

portal-server-Install-root/SUNWps/samples/config/netfile

Specifies the response content type to send to the client browser.


Netlet Service

Table C-16 lists the Netlet service attributes. The first column contains the attribute, the second column contains the default value, if there is one, and the third column contains the description for that attribute.

Table C-16  Netlet Service Attributes

Attribute

Default Value

Description

Netlet Rules

IMAP,FTP,Telnet

Choose to add or delete a rule.

If you add a rule, the following nine attributes are necessary:

--Rule Name

 

Specifies a unique name for the rule.

--Encryption Algorithms

 

Specifies the required ciphers.

--URL

 

Specifies the URL to the application to be invoked.

--Download Applet

 

Specifies if an applet needs to be downloaded. If an applet is used, the syntax in the associated edit box is:

client port:server host:server port

--Extend Session

 

Ensures that the Portal Server session time is extended while the Netlet session corresponding to this rule is running.

--Port-Host-Port List

 

Specifies client port, target host and target ports. After entering those values (in the next three rows of this table), click add to make them appear in the list.

--Client Port

 

Specifies the client port on which the Netlet listens. For an FTP rule, the client port value must be 30021.

--Target Host(s)

 

Static rules contain the host name of the target machine for the Netlet connection.

Dynamic rules contain the word "TARGET".

--Target Port(s)

 

Specifies the port on the target host.

Default Native VM Cipher

KSSL_SSL3_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5

Specifies the default cipher for the Netlet rules. This is useful when using existing rules that did not include the cipher as a part of the rule. .

Default Java Plugin Cipher

SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5

Specifies the default cipher for the Netlet rules. This is useful when using existing rules that did not include the cipher as a part of the rule.

Default Loopback Port

58000

Specifies the port to be used on the client when applets are downloaded through the Netlet. The default value can be overridden in the Netlet rules.

Reauthentication For Connections

Unchecked

Ensures that users enter the Netlet password each time a Netlet connection needs to be established.

Warning Popup for Connections

Checked

Displays a message when the user runs the application over the Netlet, and also when an intruder tries to gain access to the desktop through the listen port.

Show Checkbox in Port Warning Dialog

Checked

Allows the user to suppress the warning popup..

Keep Alive Interval (in minutes)

0

Sets the time interval for which a Netlet connection is kept alive even if there is no operation.

If you do not specify a value for this attribute, the idle Netlet connection times out with all other Portal Server idle connections per the "Max idle time (minutes)" value specified in the Session Attributes section of the Identity Server Configuration.

Terminate Netlet at Portal Logout

Checked

Ensures that all connections are terminated when a user logs out of the Portal Server.

Access to Netlet Rules

*

Define access to specific Netlet rules for certain organizations, roles or users.

Deny Netlet Rules

 

Denies access to specific Netlet rules for certain organizations, roles or users.

Allowed Hosts

*

Defines access to specific hosts for certain organizations, roles or users.

Denied Hosts

 

Denies access to specific hosts within an organization.



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