Secure Proxy Engine Configuration - Basic

The Secure Proxy engine resides in the DMZ and runs the proxy adapters that handle client communication requests to servers in your trusted zone. Use this screen to specify basic information to configure an engine. You must obtain the engine host name and port from installation. Refer to the field definitions in the following table:

Field Name

Description

Engine Name

Engine Name identifies the name to assign the engine. It can be up to 150 characters with no spaces. Special characters allowed are the period (.), dash (-), and underscore (_).

Description

Description assigns a description to help identify the engine. Description can be up to 255 characters.

Engine Host

Engine Host is the host or IP address where the engine is running. Valid values are 1 to 255 alphanumeric characters. Special characters allowed are underscore (_), dash (-), colon (:), and period (.).

Engine Listen Port

Engine listen port is the port on which the engine listens for configuration information from Configuration Manager (CM). Valid values are 1–65535.

By default, the port number is 63366.

Local bind address Local bind address is the local IP address or hostname to bind to when making the connection to the engine host and port. This provides a way to have the Configuration Manager bind to an alternate NIC when connecting out to the engine. Valid values are 1 to 255 alphanumeric characters. Special characters allowed are underscore (_), dash (-), colon (:), and period (.). Optional.