Web Reverse Proxy administration
IBM Verify Identity Access Appliance
provides procedures and reference information for managing the resources of your secure Web domain,
including the Web Reverse Proxy or WebSEAL. The appliance administration interface provides these
procedures when you activate the Verify Identity Access Platform activation
level.
Supported Web Reverse Proxy functionality
The IBM Verify Identity Access appliance Web Reverse Proxy functionality is based on the technology included with the IBM Verify Identity Access WebSEAL product. The appliance supports the majority of features that are offered by WebSEAL, with the exception of the items contained in the following table:
Configuration changes commit process
The LMI uses a two-stage commit process when you make changes to the appliance.
Runtime environment
In the local management interface, go to .
Users and user registries
Reverse proxy instance management
In the local management interface, go to . A list of all instances and their current states is displayed.
Reverse proxy status
You can use the local management interface (LMI) to manage status and view statistics.
Junctions
Federation management
Use the local management interface to configure your federations with a reverse proxy server.
Authorization servers
To manage IBM Verify Identity Access authorization server instances, go to .
Clusters
Policy management with Web Portal Manager
Web Portal Manager is a graphical management console for managing domains, users, groups, permissions, policies, and other resources in your enterprise. The appliance provides an embedded version of Web Portal Manager.
Global settings
Global keys
Trace data
You can use the local management interface (LMI) to control tracing.
Logging
You can use the local management interface (LMI) to manage the reverse proxy log files.
Front-end load balancer
The appliance provides front-end load balancing function to automatically assign client requests to the appropriate reverse proxy server based on the scheduling specified algorithm.
dscadmin command
Use the dscadmin command option from the command-line interface (CLI) to administer the distributed session cache.
API Access Control
Use the local management interface to manage the API Access Control configuration