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Appendix B
Traffic Manager Configuration Options
The Security page
The following table describes the configuration options on the Security page.
Option
Description
Control Access to the Traffic Server Manager
Authentication (basic) on/off
Sets basic authentication on or off. When on, Traffic Server checks the
administrator ID and password or user name and password (if
administrator accounts have been configured) whenever a user logs on to
Traffic Manager.
Administrator’s ID
Specifies the administrator login ID. (The ID is not checked if you turn
basic authentication off.) The administrator has access to both Configure
and Monitor modes in Traffic Manager.
The administrator ID cannot contain a colon (:).
Change Administrator’s
Password
Click this link to change the administrator password. (The password is
not checked if you turn basic authentication off).
The installer automatically encrypts the passwords and stores the
encryptions in the
records.config
file so that no one can read them.
Each time you change passwords in Traffic Manager, Traffic Serve
encrypts the passwords and stores the encryptions in the
records.config
file.
NOTE:
If you forget the administrator password and cannot access Traffic
Manager Configure pages, set the administrator password variable
(
proxy.config.admin.admin_password
) to NULL in the
records.config
file, and then enter a new password in this field.
Setting the password variable to NULL in the configuration file means
that a password is not needed to access Traffic Manager. You cannot set
passwords in the
records.config
file because the password variables
can only contain password encryptions or NULL.
Additional Users
Click this link to create a list of administrator accounts that defines who
has access to Traffic Manager and which activities they can perform. You
can disable Traffic Manager access for specific users, allow specific users
to view statistics only, view statistics and view configuration options, or
view statistics and change configuration options.
Refer to
Creating a list of administrator accounts‚ on page 85
for
information about creating administrator accounts.
SSL On / Off
This button displays only if you have obtained and installed an SSL
certificate to use for Traffic Manager connections. Click On to enable the
SSL option to provide protection for remote administrative monitoring
and configuration.
Firewall Configuration
SOCKS on/off
If you have no firewall or if the Traffic Server is outside your firewall, set
SOCKS off (the default value).
If your Traffic Server is inside the firewall, set SOCKS on.
SOCKS server IP address
Specifies the IP address of your SOCKS server.
SOCKS server port
Specifies a port by which the Traffic Server can connect to your SOCKS
server. The port must be dedicated.
NOTE:
The traffic_manager process must run as root to connect to port
numbers less than 1024.
