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Web-based System Manager Administration Guide
Configuring for the SMGate Daemon
The SMGate daemon installed with Web-based System Manager Security
allows you to run in secure applet mode without having to configure security
on each managed system. SMGate serves as an SSL gateway
between the client browser and the local web server.
To use the SMGate daemon, install the certificate
issued by the Certificate Authority (CA) onto each client browser, as follows:
- Using the Web-based System Manager internal certificate authority, get the CA certificate
using the following procedure:
- Log in to the CA machine as root user.
- Start Web-based System Manager.
- Open the Management Environment and select your local host.
- Select Export Certificate Authority's Certificate
from the task list.
- In the Export Certificate Authority's Certificate
dialog, type the full path name where the certificate is to be written.
- Click OK.
Alternatively, from the command line, type:
/usr/websm/bin/smexpcacert
Note
If you are not using
the Web-based System Manager internal certificate authority, then use your certificate
authority's procedures for obtaining a copy of its certificate.
- Copy the certificate to an HTTP Server directory so that you can
access it from the client browser. The MIME type sent by the HTTP Server
must be application/x-x509-ca-cert.
- In each of your client browsers, point the browser to the CA certificate
file and follow your browser's procedure to accept it as a signer certificate.
Your browsers are now set up to connect to your servers through theSMGate daemon. For information about enabling the SMGate daemon, see Enabling the SMGate Daemon. For information about running
through SMGate, see Applet Mode.
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