Configuring the Ridgeline Server for NATed Client Connections
Ridgeline Installation and Upgrade Guide
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Starting the Server on Linux or Solaris
To start or restart the Ridgeline daemons manually, complete the following steps:
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Enter the following commands in the order shown:
/etc/init.d/RidgelineDB31 start
/etc/init.d/RidgelineServer31 start
/etc/init.d/RidgelineFreeRadius31 start
You must have administrative rights to access init.d files.
Stopping the Server on Linux or Solaris
To stop the Ridgeline server, enter the following commands:
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Enter the following commands in the order shown:
/etc/init.d/RidgelineServer31 force-stop
(kills the server daemon)
/etc/init.d/RidgelineServer31 status
(repeat until Ridgeline server PID is stopped)
/etc/init.d/RidgelineDB31 force-stop
(kills the database daemon)
/etc/init.d/RidgelineFreeRadius31 stop
Configuring the Ridgeline Server for NATed Client
Connections
If clients will be connecting to the Ridgeline server through a connection that uses Network Address
Translation (NAT), configure the Ridgeline server as follows:
1
Stop the Ridgeline server if it is currently running. See the previous section for information about
how to do this.
2
Set the EPICENTER_SERVER_ADDRESS environment variable to the
hostname
of the Ridgeline
server.
3
Open the
runserver.sp
file, which resides in
<Ridgeline_install_dir>
/jboss/bin
, and add the
following entry:
remoting.bind_by_host=true
4
In Ridgeline, set the TCP port number that clients use to connect to the Ridgeline server to 56983. To
do this, go to Ridgeline Administration, click the Server Properties tab, select Other from the drop-
down list, and enter
56983
in the Client Port field.
5
On the client machine, make sure the hostname of the Ridgeline server resolves to the correct outside
IP address of the server.
If the server’s IP address does not resolve correctly, add an entry for the server in the client’s
hosts
file. In Windows, the
hosts
file is
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
(where
c:
is the
drive where Windows is installed). In Solaris and Linux, the
hosts
file is
/etc/hosts
.
6
Ensure that the ports used by Ridgeline are accessible through your firewall/NAT setup. Ridgeline
uses the following ports:
