Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Quick Start


Appendix F. Setting Up the Secure Web Administrator Proxy

The Tivoli Storage Manager Secure Web Administrator Proxy provides a secure method for the TSM administrative Web interface to retrieve Web pages without affecting the performance of the server. A Web proxy on a separate Web server machine, not the Tivoli Storage Manager server fills requests from the administrative Web interface for images and HTML pages. A single Web server can handle requests for multiple Tivoli Storage Manager servers on different platforms as shown in Figure 22.

Figure 22. Tivoli Storage Manager and the Web Proxy

Secure Web Administrator Proxy

In a typical Web proxy setup, you would perform the following tasks:

  1. Install a Web server. The Web server can be on the following platforms: AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, or Windows NT. The Web server can provide services to Tivoli Storage Manager servers on AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, Windows NT, and MVS and OS/390.
    Note:You should not install the Web server and Tivoli Storage Manager server on the same machine. To do so would be to lose the performance advantage of using the Web proxy.
  2. Install the Web proxy and help files (GIF images and HTML files).
  3. Specify a URL that includes the CGI directory for your Web server to access the Web administrative interface.

The Web proxy connects to Tivoli Storage Manager as a client, secures the connection, and retrieves Web pages or submits forms. The TSM server responds with the requested HTML pages and redirects the URLs in the page to the Web proxy. When the Web proxy receives the response, it passes the information to the Web server. The Web server's Secure Socket Layer (SSL) package encrypts the information and returns it to the Web browser.


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