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Preface

Components of the Covalent Enterprise Ready Server

Components of the Covalent Enterprise Ready Server

Covalent Enterprise Ready Server

Covalent Management Services

Covalent Content Services

Covalent Security Services

Covalent Logging Services

Covalent Monitoring Services

Covalent Application Services

Covalent Management Services

Covalent Management Portal

Covalent Content Services

Apache 2.0

Covalent Headers

Covalent FTP

Covalent Security Services

Covalent Authentication and Authorization

Covalent User Tracking

Encryption and Covalent SSL

Covalent Logging Services

Covalent Monitoring Services

Server Monitoring (Covalent SNMP)

Covalent Application Services

JavaServer Pages/Servlets Support

Perl Scripting Support

PHP Scripting Support

Covalent Management Services

The Covalent Management Portal

What is the Covalent Management Portal?

Administration

Integrated setup

Monitoring

Starting the Covalent Management Portal

Login to the Covalent Management Portal

Covalent Content Services

Starting and Stopping the Covalent Enterprise Ready Server

Starting the Covalent Enterprise Ready Server

Server Start-up

Starting the Covalent Enterprise Ready Server with Covalent SSL

Stopping the Covalent Enterprise Ready Server

Restarting the Covalent Enterprise Ready Server

Graceful Restart

Automating Server Start-up on UNIX Systems

Changing Windows Services

Important Files and Directories

Configuring Apache 2.0

What are Directives?

The Configuration File

Sections of the Configuration File

Global Environment Directives

What are Multi-Processing Modules (MPM)?

Changing the MPM used by the Covalent Enterprise Ready Server

Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) Support

Main Server Configuration Directives

What are Virtual Hosts?

Virtual Host Directives

What is suEXEC?

suEXEC and the Covalent Enterprise Ready Server

Disabling suEXEC

Configuring Covalent Headers

What are Covalent Headers?

How Do Covalent Headers Work?

Default Directives

Examples of Using Covalent Headers Directives

Basic Scenario

Advanced scenarios

Covalent Headers Directives

Configuring Covalent FTP

What is the File Transfer Protocol?

Covalent FTP

Document Root

Example Configuration

Securing Covalent FTP with Covalent SSL

Explicit FTP

Implicit FTP

Example Using SSL Directives

Logging FTP Transactions

Command Log

Transfer Log

Defining the FTP Logs

Enabling Write Access to Covalent FTP

Covalent FTP Directives

Covalent Security Services

Understanding Covalent Security Services Features

Features of Covalent Authentication and Authorization

What is Authentication?

What is Authorization?

Features of Covalent User Tracking

What is User Tracking?

Features of Covalent SSL

What is SSL and HTTPS?

Important Files and Commands

Covalent Authentication and Authorization Configuration

Covalent SSL Configuration

Configuring Covalent Authentication and Authorization

What is Covalent Authentication and Authorization?

Covalent Auth Modules

Core Apache Authentication/Authorization Directives

Authoritative Authorization Modules

Anonymous Authentication/Authorization Directives

File Authentication/Authorization Directives

DBM Authentication/Authorization Directives

NIS Authentication/Authorization Directives

Accessing External Resources with Switchboard

Using Switchboard

Back-end Shared Objects

Switchboard Directives

Configuring Authentication/Authorization with LDAP

Using the Require Directive

Loading the LDAP Client Libraries

LDAP Example

LDAP Authentication/Authorization Directives

Database Authorization Schemas

Schema 1 (Departments/Locations)

Schema 2 (Departments/Locations)

Schema 3 (UNIX groups/Venn diagrams)

Schema 4 (UNIX groups/Venn diagrams)

Configuring Authentication/Authorization with an ODBC Data Source

ODBC Example

ODBC Authentication/Authorization Directives

Configuring Authentication/Authorization with an Oracle Database

Defining the Oracle Environment

Using Oracle Stored Procedures

Oracle Example Using a Standard Schema

Oracle Authentication/Authorization Directives

Configuring User Tracking With Covalent User Tracking

What is Covalent User Tracking?

What is a Clickstream?

What are Cookies?

Logging Cookie Session IDs

What is Location Tracking?

Covalent User Tracking Example

Covalent User Tracking Directives

Introduction to SSL

What is SSL?

Encryption

Covalent SSL and Encryption

Tamper Detection

Authentication

Digital Certificate

Certificate Authorities (CAs)

Server Certificates, and Certificate Authorities

SSL and Virtual Hosts

Configuring and Managing Covalent SSL

Covalent SSL Directives

Server Certificates and Private Keys

The Covalent SSL Certificate and Key Management Tool

Overview of Options

Starting the Covalent SSL Certificate and Key Management Tool

Selecting the Server Installation

Generating and Testing a Private Key and Server Certificate

Obtaining a Signed Server Certificate From a Certificate Authority (CA)

Generating and Submitting a Certificate Signing Request

Installing and Testing a CA-signed Server Certificate

Renewing a CA-signed Server Certificate

Self-Signing a Server Certificate

Additional Private Key Management Tools

Eliminating the Pass Phrase at Server Start-up

Changing Your Pass Phrase

Additional Instructions for Intermediate and Chain Certificates

Using a VeriSign 128-bit Secure Site (Global) ID

Using an Entrust, Inc Server Certificate

Preserving Your Private Key and Authenticated Server Certificates

Enabling SSL for Virtual Hosts

Virtual Hosts Using the SSL Protocol

Covalent SSL Configuration Directives

General Directives

SSL Caching Directives

Site Authentication Directives

Client Authentication Directives

Encryption Directives

Access Control Directives

Environment Variables

Custom Log Formats

Covalent Logging Services

Understanding Covalent Logging Service Features

What is the Covalent Logging Service?

Defining a Logging Agent

Defining a Logging Receptor

Important Files and Directories

Configuring a Logging Agent

Enabling the Covalent Logging Service

Modifying the Covalent Logging Agent Configuration File

Start the Covalent Logging Agent

Configuring the Logging Receptor

Logging Receptor Features

Modifying the Receptor Configuration File

The Structure of the Processing Rules

Using the Configuration Utility

Creating Agent Passwords

Adding an Agent to the Processing Rules

Starting the Logging Receptor

Covalent Logging Service Directives

Covalent Monitoring Services

Configuring Covalent SNMP

Covalent SNMP Module

SNMP-based Management

SNMP Versions

AgentX

Included Enterprise-specific MIB Modules

Covalent SNMP Directives

Covalent SNMP Agent Configuration File

Important Files and Directories

Starting Covalent SNMP

Covalent SNMP Master Agent

Start the Covalent SNMP Master Agent

Start the Covalent Enterprise Ready Server

Testing Covalent SNMP

Covalent SNMP Commands

snmpd

snmpwalk

snmpget

snmpgetnext

snmpbulkget

snmpbulkwalk

snmptrapd

variables

common arguments

Covalent Application Services

Configuring Tomcat 4.0

What is Tomcat?

Tomcat Modes

What is the JK Module?

Connecting to Tomcat with the JK Module

Assigning URLs to Tomcat

Protecting the WEB-INF Directory

Example Configuration File

Configuring Tomcat

Tomcat Directory Structure

Tomcat Configuration Files

Global Configuration File

Web Applications Structure File

Defining Workers

Perl Scripting Support

What is Perl?

What is Mod Perl?

Mod Perl Configuration

Important References for Perl Programmers

PHP Scripting Support

What is PHP?

PHP Features

PHP Configuration

Covalent Support

Sources of On-line Information

Covalent Technologies, Inc

Covalent Enterprise Ready Server

Covalent SSL

Covalent FTP

Covalent FAQ and Knowledge Base

Apache

DAV Module

Mod_perl Module

PHP Module

JavaServer Pages And Servlets

Jakarta Tomcat Project Resource

JavaServer Pages and Servlets Project Resource

Sun Solaris Patch Information

Certificate Authorities

Encryption and Security

Troubleshooting



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