The Tivoli Storage Manager Secure Web Administrator Proxy provides a secure method for the TSM administrative Web interface to retrieve Web pages without affecting the performance of the server. A Web proxy on a separate Web server machine, not the Tivoli Storage Manager server fills requests from the administrative Web interface for images and HTML pages. A single Web server can handle requests for multiple Tivoli Storage Manager servers on different platforms as shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5. Tivoli Storage Manager and the Web Proxy
In a typical Web proxy setup, you would perform the following tasks:
Note: | You should not install the Web server and Tivoli Storage Manager server on the same machine. To do so would be to lose the performance advantage of using the Web proxy. |
The Web proxy connects to Tivoli Storage Manager as a client, secures the connection, and retrieves Web pages or submits forms. The TSM server responds with the requested HTML pages and redirects the URLs in the page to the Web proxy. When the Web proxy receives the response, it passes the information to the Web server. The Web server's Secure Socket Layer (SSL) package encrypts the information and returns it to the Web browser.