A few Web-based System Manager files might need modification by the user or administrator. In general, the state of a session is saved for each user in the preference file (see Preference Files). The only files that might be modified to change some global behavior of Web-based System Manager are as follows:
This file contains settings that control global behavior of the Web-based
System Manager application. The following table identifies the file
contents:
| Variable Name | Description | Possible Values |
|---|---|---|
| forcessl | If set to true, indicates that the machine on which the
websm.cfg file exists can only be managed if the client
attempting to manage it can do so by establishing an SSL connection to the
managing machine. See Chapter 5, Web-based System Manager Security.
Note: Web-based System Manager on systems prior to AIX 5.1 used a different interpretation for the forcessl flag. At that time, the interpretation was that SSL communication would be required if the forcessl flag was set to true and SSL was configured on the server. In AIX 5.1, if the forcessl flag is set to true and the server does not have SSL configured, then the server cannot be managed by a remote client. | true or false |
| remote_timeout | The amount of time (in milliseconds) that a client will wait for a connection to a managed machine. If the connection cannot be made in this amount of time, the client abandons the server. If the client did not abandon the server, then it would continue to wait indefinitely if an attempt was made to manage a non-existent machine. | Integer values
An appropriate value can depend on network performance. The default value is 30000 (30 seconds). If network performance is slow (it is often the case that a remote machine cannot be accessed even though it is known that the remote machine exists and is available) this value should be increased. |
The only option that Web-based System Manager currently uses in this file is the forcessl flag. This flag is used when a client connects to a managed machine. If the value of the forcessl flag is true, then the server will only connect to a client through secure connections (SSL sockets). If this flag is set to false, the server will attempt to communicate to a client through secure socket connections if SSL is configured on both the client and the server. But if there is a problem connecting through SSL sockets, the server will allow the client to connect through non-secure sockets (see Chapter 5, Web-based System Manager Security).