Administrator's Guide
Contents
Preface
- Purpose
- Audience
- Organization
Chapter 1: Administration Quick Reference
- SMC panels
- Configuration options
- Security options
- Monitor options
- Administration tasks
- Database configuration
- General server management
- Security
- Tuning and performance
- Load balancing and failover
- Using the Server Administration API
- Troubleshooting
Chapter 2: Administration Overview
- The SilverStream Application Server
- Three-tiered communications
- Application Server environments
- SilverStream administration
- Client administration
- Database administration
- Server administration
- The SilverStream Management Console (SMC)
- Running the SMC
- The SMC user interface
- Logging in
- Logging out
- Online help
Chapter 3: Server Configuration
- Server configurations
- Production environment
- Development environment
- Firewalls and proxy servers
- Configuration with a firewall and proxy server
- Network configurations
- Simple intranet configuration
- Intranet cluster configuration
- Simple Internet configuration
- Internet cluster configuration
- Demilitarized Zone Internet configuration
- Group development configuration
- HTTP server and Web basics
- Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)
- SilverStream resources
- HTTP communications
- Session management
- Cookies
- Application Server features
- Client connections
- Servlet support
- Application presentation
Chapter 4: Database Configuration
- Setting up a supported database
- Setting up the database
- Setting up database accounts
- Communicating with the SilverStream Server
- SilverStream database configuration
- Supported databases
- Database access
- The SilverMaster database catalog
- SilverMaster functions
- Data access and queries
- Data source objects
- JDBC and SilverStream queries
- Connecting to the database
- Configuring the database
- General database administration
- Moving the SilverMaster database
- Moving an added database
- Database-level administration
Chapter 5: Running the Server
- Starting the SilverStream Server
- Starting the server in Windows NT
- Using startup options
- Starting the server on UNIX
- Starting the server on a specific IP address or hostname
- Shutting down the SilverStream Server
- Restarting the SilverStream Server
- Specifying general server properties
- Using server logging
- SilverStream Server logging properties when run as a service
- Specifying RMI settings
- Running multiple servers on one host
- Specifying unique ports
- Properties shared by all servers in a cluster
Chapter 6: Setting Up Users and Groups
- About Silver Security users and groups
- Managing Silver Security users and groups
- Adding Silver Security users
- Editing user properties
- Adding Silver Security groups
- Using the Locksmith privilege
Chapter 7: Maintaining the Server
- Administering a SilverStream Server remotely
- Setting up mail on the server
- Managing licenses
- About licenses
- Setting the AGCLASSPATH variable
- Maintaining Enterprise JavaBeans
- Setting Fulcrum full text properties
- Monitoring server activity
- Displaying charts of server activity
- Displaying logs
- Displaying views of server statistics
- Integrating with existing Web servers
- Using SilverJunction
Chapter 8: Setting Security
- Security configuration
- Security architecture
- Security functions
- Establishing a secure connection to the server
- Establishing a secure connection between a Java client and the SilverStream Server
- Establishing a secure connection between an HTML client and the SilverStream Server
- Accessing security provider systems
- Adding security provider access
- Using NT security
- Using LDAP security
- Using NisPlus security
- Accessing users and groups
- Security provider login formats
- Overriding defaults for login name components
- Using certificates
- About certificates
- Creating and installing server certificates
- Viewing server certificates
- Enabling RSA/DSA ports
- Turning off HTTP communications
- Restricting SSL cipher suites
- Managing Certificate Authorities
- Installing and managing client certificates
- Enabling authentication
- Setting up access control
- Permission types
- Default object security
- How access works
- Changing access
- Setting permissions
- Excluding robots
- Locking down an application or a server
- Locking down an application
- Locking down a server
- Security checklist
- Securing the production server
- Securing the development server
- Securing server administration
Chapter 9: Tuning the Server
- Managing database connections
- About database connections and performance
- Setting the maximum and minimum number of database connections
- Using prefetch buffers
- Setting performance parameters
- Managing client connections
- Client sessions and threads
- Client connection parameters
- Managing the server content cache
Chapter 10: Administering a Cluster
- Server clustering
- Cluster components
- The Cache Manager
- The Load Manager
- The Dispatcher
- Component failover
- Persistent failure
- Setting up a server cluster
- Starting the clustering components
- Installing cluster servers
- Creating the cluster profile
- Restarting the clustered servers
- Administering a server cluster
- About properties in a clustered environment
- Setting cluster-level properties
- Setting server-level properties in a cluster
- Specifying a server's relative load weight
- Managing failover
- Cache Manager properties
- Load Manager properties
- Dissolving a cluster
- Changing the clustering components' properties
- Installing certificates in a cluster
- Setting up Fulcrum in a cluster
- Setting up Fulcrum on Windows NT
- Setting up Fulcrum on UNIX
Chapter 11: Using the Server Administration API
- Introduction to the Administration API
- How the Administration API is organized
- How server objects are organized
- More about containers and elements
- The programming environment
- Getting started with the Administration API
- Obtaining a server object from a client application
- Obtaining a server object from a server application
- Getting a server's properties
- Working with server elements
- Where to go from here
Chapter 12: Troubleshooting
- Using error logging
- Low-level debugging
- Setting JDBC/ODBC tracing
- Using the Watcher
- Problems starting the SilverStream Server
- Business object generating errors
- Database not synchronized
- Using SilverMonitor
- Using the SilverMasterInit program
- Command-line options
- Using SilverMasterInit to recreate or refresh SilverMaster
- Regaining access to SilverMaster
- Handling a stack overflow
- Miscellaneous issues
- Browser issues
- Server appears to be hung
- Socket exceptions
- Calling Technical Support
Appendix A: The httpd.props File
- Server properties
Appendix B: The SilverStream SNMP Agent
- SNMP implementation overview
- How the SilverStream components work
- Process flow and terminology
- Setting up SNMP for the SilverStream Server
- Installing SNMP as a service
- Installing SilverStream on the server
- Enabling the scheduled business object
- Testing the program
- SilverStream ID and OIDs
Appendix C: SilverStream System Tables and URLs
- SilverStream internal system tables
- SilverStream database URLs
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