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Administrator’s Guide

Netscape Enterprise Server

Version 4.0

806-2823-10

September 1999

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Documentation Team: Jocelyn Becker, Rober t Fish, Ann Hillesland, Sanborn Hodges, Amanda Lee, Laila Millar, and

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Contents iii

Contents

About This Guide ...........................................................................................21

What’s In This Guide? ..........................................................................................21

How This Guide Is Organized ............................................................................21

Part I: Server Basics ........................................................................................22

Part II: Using Enterprise Administration Server .............................................22

Part III: Configuring and Monitoring .............................................................23

Part IV: Using Programs and Objects .............................................................24

Part V: Managing Content and Access ...........................................................24

Appendixes ......................................................................................................24

Conventions Used In This Guide ........................................................................25

Using the Enterprise Server Documentation ......................................................26

Further Reading ...................................................................................................28

Contacting Technical Support .............................................................................29

Part 1 Server Basics

Chapter 1 Introduction to Enterprise Server .....................................33

Netscape Enterprise Server .................................................................................33

Enterprise Server Features ..............................................................................34

Administering and Managing Enterprise Servers ...........................................35

Netscape Enterprise Server Architecture ............................................................36

Content Engines ..............................................................................................37

Server Extensions ............................................................................................37

Runtime Environments ....................................................................................38

Application Services ........................................................................................38

How Enterprise Server is Configured .................................................................39

Enterprise Server Component Options ..........................................................39

Enterprise Server Configuration Files .............................................................40

Single-Server Configuration ............................................................................41

All Platforms ...............................................................................................41

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Unix-Only Platforms .................................................................................. 44

Multiple-Server Configuration ........................................................................ 45

Enterprise Administration Server ........................................................................ 45

Server Manager .................................................................................................... 46

Accessing the Server Manager ....................................................................... 47

Using the Resource Picker ............................................................................. 48

Wildcards Used in the Resource Picker ........................................................ 49

Netscape Console ................................................................................................ 50

Sending Error Information to Netscape ............................................................. 52

Details on Data Collected by the Quality Feedback Agent ......................... 52

Using the Quality Feedback Agent ................................................................ 53

Editing master.ini ....................................................................................... 54

Editing magnus.conf .................................................................................. 54

Chapter 2 Administering Enterprise Servers ..................................... 57

Accessing Enterprise Administration Server ...................................................... 57

Unix Platforms ................................................................................................ 58

Windows NT Platforms .................................................................................. 58

Adding a Server: Running Multiple Servers ....................................................... 60

Hardware Virtual Servers ............................................................................... 60

Software Virtual Servers ................................................................................. 60

Multiple Server Instances ............................................................................... 61

Installing Multiple Instances of the Server ......................................................... 61

Removing a Server .............................................................................................. 62

Migrating a Server From a Previous Version ..................................................... 63

Part 2 Using Enterprise Administration Server

Chapter 3 Setting Administration Preferences ................................. 67

Shutting Down Enterprise Administration Server .............................................. 68

Changing Network Settings ................................................................................ 68

Changing the User Account and Password ................................................... 69

Changing the Port Number ............................................................................ 69

Changing the Superuser Settings ........................................................................ 70

Enabling Distributed Administration .................................................................. 71

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Configuring Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) ............................................................73

Activating SSL ..................................................................................................73

Setting Encryption Preferences ......................................................................73

Setting Stronger Ciphers ............................................................................74

Specifying Log File Options ................................................................................75

Viewing the Access Log File ..........................................................................76

Viewing the Error Log File .............................................................................77

Archiving Log Files .........................................................................................77

Using Cron Controls (Unix Only) .............................................................78

Configuring Directory Services ...........................................................................79

Restricting Server Access .....................................................................................79

Chapter 4 Managing Users and Groups ...............................................81

About Users and Groups ....................................................................................82

Creating Users .....................................................................................................83

Guidelines for Creating User Entries .............................................................83

How to Create a New User Entry ..................................................................84

Directory Server User Entries .........................................................................84

Managing Users ...................................................................................................86

Finding User Information ...............................................................................86

Building Custom Search Queries ..............................................................87

Search Attribute Options ...........................................................................88

Search Type Options .................................................................................89

Editing User Information ................................................................................90

Managing a User’s Password ..........................................................................91

Managing User Licenses .................................................................................92

Renaming Users ..............................................................................................92

Removing Users ..............................................................................................93

Creating Groups ..................................................................................................93

Static Groups ...................................................................................................94

Guidelines for Creating Static Groups ......................................................94

To Create a Static Group ...........................................................................95

Dynamic Groups .............................................................................................95

How Enterprise Server 4.0 Implements Dynamic Groups .......................96

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Groups Can Be Static and Dynamic ......................................................... 97

Dynamic Group Impact on Server Performance ...................................... 97

Guidelines for Creating Dynamic Groups ................................................ 97

To Create a Dynamic Group ..................................................................... 99

Managing Groups ................................................................................................ 99

Finding Group Entries .................................................................................. 100

The “Find all groups whose” Field ......................................................... 101

Editing Group Attributes .............................................................................. 101

Adding Group Members .............................................................................. 102

Adding Groups to the Group Members List ............................................... 103

Removing Entries from the Group Members List ....................................... 104

Managing Owners ........................................................................................ 104

Managing See Alsos ...................................................................................... 105

Removing Groups ......................................................................................... 105

Renaming Groups ......................................................................................... 106

Creating Organizational Units .......................................................................... 106

Managing Organizational Units ........................................................................ 107

Finding Organizational Units ....................................................................... 107

The “Find all units whose” Field ............................................................. 108

Editing Organizational Unit Attributes ........................................................ 109

Renaming Organizational Units ................................................................... 109

Deleting Organizational Units ...................................................................... 110

Managing a Preferred Language List ................................................................ 110

Chapter 5 Working with Server Security .......................................... 113

About Enterprise Server Security ...................................................................... 114

Encryption ..................................................................................................... 114

FIPS-140 Compliance ............................................................................... 115

Certificates ..................................................................................................... 115

Client and Server Authentication ............................................................ 116

How Enterprise Server Uses Certificates to Authenticate Users ............ 116

128-Bit Step-Up Certificates ..................................................................... 117

Configuring Enterprise Server for SSL ......................................................... 117

Creating a New Server Instance ....................................................................... 118

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Creating a Certificate Trust Database ............................................................... 119

Requesting a Certificate .................................................................................... 120

Required CA Information ............................................................................. 122

Installing and Managing Certificates ................................................................123

Managing Certificates ................................................................................... 126

Using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) ..................................................................... 127

Activating SSL ................................................................................................ 128

Specifying Ciphers ........................................................................................ 128

Setting Security (SSL) Preferences ................................................................ 129

Adding a PKCS #11Module .......................................................................... 129

Guidelines for Installing a PKCS#11 Module .......................................... 130

To Import a PKCS#11 Module ................................................................. 131

Using SSL Configuration File Directives ...................................................... 131

Security ..................................................................................................... 131

SSL2 ........................................................................................................... 132

SSL3 ........................................................................................................... 132

Ciphers ...................................................................................................... 132

SSL3Ciphers .............................................................................................. 133

SSL3SessionTimeout ................................................................................. 133

SSLCacheEntries ....................................................................................... 133

SSLClientAuth ........................................................................................... 133

SSLSessionTimeout ................................................................................... 133

Using Client Certificates .................................................................................... 134

Mapping Client Certificates to LDAP ...........................................................134

Using the certmap.conf File ......................................................................... 136

Creating Custom Properties ..................................................................... 139

Example Mappings .................................................................................. 139

Changing the Trust Database/Key Pair File Password .................................... 141

Migrating Enterprise Server 3.X Certificates ..................................................... 142

Additional Server Security Considerations ....................................................... 143

Limit Physical Access .................................................................................... 143

Limit Administration Access ......................................................................... 144

Choose Good Passwords ............................................................................. 144

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Guidelines for Creating Hard-to-Crack Passwords ................................. 144

Secure Your Key-Pair File ............................................................................ 145

Limit Other Applications on the Server ....................................................... 145

Prevent Clients from Caching SSL Files ....................................................... 146

Limit Ports ..................................................................................................... 146

Know Your Server’s Limits ........................................................................... 146

Consider Additional Measures for Unprotected Servers ............................. 147

Chapter 6 Managing Server Clusters ................................................... 149

About Clusters ................................................................................................... 149

Preliminary Guidelines for Using Server Clusters ........................................... 150

Setting up a Cluster ........................................................................................... 152

Adding a Server to the Server List .................................................................... 153

Modifying Cluster Information ......................................................................... 154

Removing Servers from a Cluster ..................................................................... 155

Managing Server Clusters ................................................................................. 155

Part 3 Configuring and Monitoring

Chapter 7 Configuring Server Preferences ....................................... 159

Starting and Stopping the Server ...................................................................... 160

Setting the Termination Timeout ................................................................. 160

Restarting the Server (Unix) ......................................................................... 161

Restarting With Inittab (Unix) ................................................................. 162

Restarting With the System RC Scripts (Unix) ........................................ 162

Restarting the Server Manually (Unix) .................................................... 162

Stopping the Server Manually (Unix) ..................................................... 163

Restarting the Server (Windows NT) ........................................................... 163

Using the Automatic Restart Utility (Windows NT) ............................... 165

Viewing Server Settings .................................................................................... 166

Configuring Network Settings .......................................................................... 167

Changing the Server’s Location (Unix) ........................................................ 167

Changing the Server’s User Account (Unix) ............................................... 167

Changing the Server’s User Account (Windows NT) ................................. 168

Changing the Server Name .......................................................................... 169

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Changing the Server Port Number ............................................................... 169

Changing the Server Binding Address ......................................................... 170

Changing the Server’s MTA Host ................................................................. 170

Customizing Error Responses ........................................................................... 170

Working with Dynamic Configuration Files .................................................... 171

Using .htaccess Files ..................................................................................... 171

Activating .htaccess checking .................................................................. 171

Using .nsconfig Files ................................................................................ 175

Restricting Symbolic Links (Unix) .................................................................... 179

Using the Watchdog (uxwdog) Process (Unix) ............................................... 179

Chapter 8 Understanding Log Files ..................................................... 183

About Log Files ................................................................................................. 184

Viewing an Access Log File .............................................................................. 184

Viewing the Error Log File ................................................................................ 185

Monitoring the Server Using HTTP .................................................................. 186

Archiving Log Files ............................................................................................ 187

Internal-daemon Log Rotation ..................................................................... 188

Cron-based Log Rotation .............................................................................. 188

Setting Log Preferences .....................................................................................189

Easy Cookie Logging .................................................................................... 190

Relaxed Logging ........................................................................................... 190

Flushing the Log Buffer .................................................................................... 191

Running the Log Analyzer ................................................................................191

Using Performance Monitor (Windows NT) .................................................... 193

Viewing Events (Windows NT) ........................................................................ 195

Chapter 9 Using SNMP to Monitor Servers ....................................... 197

SNMP Basics ...................................................................................................... 198

SNMP Subagent ............................................................................................. 198

SNMP Master Agent ...................................................................................... 198

How SNMP Works ........................................................................................ 199

Netscape MIBs .............................................................................................. 200

The Enterprise Server MIB ...................................................................... 201

Types of SNMP Messages ............................................................................. 201

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The Enterprise Server MIB ................................................................................ 202

Setting Up SNMP on a Netscape Server ........................................................... 205

Using a Proxy SNMP Agent (Unix) .................................................................. 207

Installing the Proxy SNMP Agent ................................................................. 208

Starting the Proxy SNMP Agent ................................................................... 208

Restarting the Native SNMP Daemon .......................................................... 209

Reconfiguring the SNMP Native Agent ............................................................ 209

Installing the SNMP Master Agent .................................................................... 209

Enabling and Starting the SNMP Master Agent ................................................ 211

Manually Configuring the SNMP Master Agent ........................................... 211

Editing the Master Agent CONFIG File ....................................................... 212

Defining sysContact and sysLocation Variables .......................................... 212

Configuring the SNMP Master Agent ........................................................... 213

Starting the SNMP Master Agent .................................................................. 214

Manually Starting the SNMP Master Agent ............................................. 214

Starting the SNMP Master Agent Using Enterprise Admin Server ......... 215

Configuring the SNMP Master Agent ............................................................... 215

Configuring the Community String .............................................................. 215

Configuring Trap Destinations ..................................................................... 216

Enabling the Subagent ...................................................................................... 216

Chapter 10 Configuring the Server for Performance ................... 219

About Server Performance ................................................................................ 220

Performance Issues ........................................................................................... 220

Unix Platform-Specific Issues ........................................................................... 221

Performance Buckets ........................................................................................ 222

Configuration ................................................................................................ 223

Performance Report ...................................................................................... 223

Miscellaneous magnus.conf Directives ............................................................ 225

Multi-process Mode ...................................................................................... 225

Accept Thread Information .......................................................................... 227

CGIStub Processes (Unix) ............................................................................ 227

Buffer Size ..................................................................................................... 228

Native Thread Pool Size ............................................................................... 229

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