Using Novell Filr in conjunction with NetIQ Access Manager adds enterprise-level security to your Filr system.
Only a version of Access Manager that supports Transport Layer Security (TLS) can be used when using Access Manager with Filr. For information about which versions of Access Manager support TLS and how to enable it, see Enabling Transport Layer Security 1.1 and 1.2 for Access Manager.
IMPORTANT:When you use NetIQ Access Manager with Filr, external users cannot access your Filr site. This means that the following features are not functional:
Users are not able to share with external users, as described in Sharing with People Outside Your Organization
in the Novell Filr 1.2 Web Application User Guide.
Users are not able to share a File Link, as described in Distributing a Link to a File
in the Novell Filr 1.2 Web Application User Guide.
Users cannot make items accessible to the public, as described in Making Files Accessible to the Public
in the Novell Filr 1.2 Web Application User Guide.
This means that public users cannot access the Filr site as the Guest user. For more information about the Guest user, see Section 10.1.1, Allowing Guest Access to Your Filr Site.
For more information about external users in Filr, see Section 10.1, Allowing External Users Access to Your Filr Site.
Before internal users can access your Filr site through NetIQ Access Manger, you must first configure specific protected resources in Access Manager to be public, as described in Section 12.0, Allowing Access to the Filr Site through NetIQ Access Manager.
Furthermore, you can configure NetIQ Access Manager to work with Novell Filr in the following way:
Configure NetIQ Access Manager to provide single sign-on access to the Filr site.
For more information, see Section 1.8, Changing Reverse Proxy Configuration Settings.
When you set up NetIQ Access Manager to work with Filr, ensure that you specify the correct HTTP/HTTPS port numbers during the configuration of the Filr appliance, as described in HTTP/HTTPS Ports When You Use NetIQ Access Manager with Filr.