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About This Guide
This guide explains how to administer the Sun Java™ System Portal Server Secure Remote Access (formerly Sun ONE™ Portal Server, Secure Remote Access)
Sun Java System Portal Server Secure Remote Access (SRA) 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.
SRA runs on the Solaris™ 8.0 and 9.0 Operating Systems. This guide contains instructions for configuring and administering SRA.
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 SRA.
You need root access to the required machines for installing the various components of SRA. 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 SRA, 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 Portal Server Secure Remote Access
This chapter describes the SRA and the relationship between the Sun Java™ System Portal Server product and SRA components. It also provides information on administering and configuring SRA.
This chapter describes Gateway related concepts and information required for the smooth running of the Gateway.
Chapter 3, "Proxylet and Rewriter"
This chapter describes Proxylet and Rewriter. For Rewriter, it provides sample rules and best practices.
This chapter describes NetFile and explains its operation.
This chapter describes how to use Netlet to run applications securely between users’ remote standard Portal Desktops and the servers running applications on your intranet.
This chapter describes how to configure the client browser’s Java Plugin so that 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 Java™ System Identity Server administration console.
Chapter 10, "Configuring NetFile"
This chapter describes how to configure the NetFile from the Sun Java™ System Identity Server administration console.
Chapter 11, "Configuring Netlet"
This chapter describes how to configure the Netlet attributes from the Sun Java™ System Identity Server administration console.
Chapter 12, "Configuring Proxylet"
This chapter describes how to configure Proxylet from the Sun Java™ System Identity Server administration console.
Chapter 13, "Configuring SSL Accelerators"
This chapter describes how to configure various accelerators for Portal Server Secure Remote Access.
This appendix lists all the Portal Server Secure Remote Accesslog files and their descriptions.
Appendix B, "Configuration Attributes"
This appendix lists the attributes you set for Portal Server Secure Remote Access on the Sun Java™ System Identity Server administration console.
This appendix lists the two-letter country codes that you need to specify during certificate administration.
This glossary contains the link to the global glossary for the Sun Java System.
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 InformationSRA Documentation
Listed below are additional SRA documents.
- Portal Server Secure Remote Access Attribute Online Help
- Portal Server Secure Remote Access Netlet Online (client) Help
- Portal Server Secure Remote Access NetFile Java1 Online (client) Help
- Portal Server Secure Remote Access NetFile Java2 Online (client) Help
- Portal Server Secure Remote Access Proxylet Online (client) Help
Portal Server Documentation
The Sun Java™ System Portal Server documentation suite also includes the following:
Documents Referenced in This Guide
Other documents referenced in this guide:
This guide can be found at: http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/pdf/816-2450-11.pdf
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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.