1 Using the Administration Utility

The Administration utility for Internet Express helps you manage Internet services and the AlphaServer system through a Web browser. Because you use a browser to perform these tasks, you are not expected to be familiar with Tru64 UNIX.

The Administration utility is a set of CGI programs that use a configured instance of the Secure Web Server (powered by Apache) on port 8081. You access the Administration utility by entering the following URL in a Web browser running on a local system:

http://host.domain.name:8081/

The Administration utility server is password-protected. You must provide a user name (admin by default) and a password (which is set during installation).

Using the Administration utility, you can perform the following types of tasks:

•Manage user accounts — You can create various types of user accounts to provide access to Internet services. By default, an administrator can manage user accounts only from the local system (that is, the system on which Internet Express software is installed). However, you can use Web Server Administration functions to allow access from remote systems. See Chapter 3 for more information.

•Administer Internet services — You configure Internet services (such as anonymous FTP, the Squid proxy/caching server, and InterNetNews) to operate within your environment, view log files to determine how users are making use of the Internet services you provide, and link to the sysman utility to shut down and reboot the system, manage local printers, and perform other system management

•Access online documentation — The Documentation Bookshelf allows you to:

◦Access the complete set of Internet Express documentation in HTML, and PDF formats. The documentation includes links to third-party Web sites for the Internet components that ship with the product, as well as links to HP Web sites offering information of interest to AlphaServer administrators.

◦Search the reference pages included with the Internet Express software. This document also provides links to these reference pages.

◦Search the Tru64 UNIX Web site. Of particular interest to AlphaServer administrators is the Technical Information page (http://h30097.www3.hp.com/technical.html).

•Display the copyrights of the third-party Internet components shipped with Internet Express.

See Section : Using the Administration Utility Main Menu for more information on using the Administration utility Main Menu and how to register your installation.

For information on the various administration servers available through the Administration utility and how to access these servers, see Section : Accessing Administration Servers.

For information on the iass login account, see Section : Accessing the Internet Express Login Account.

For information on accessing and managing the Internet Monitor, see Section : Accessing and Managing the Internet Monitor.

For information on managing Internet Express in a TruCluster environment, see Section : Managing Internet Express in a TruCluster Environment.

For information on installing and removing components, see Section : Installing and Removing Components.

For information on Web-based system administration and kernel tuning, see Section : Accessing Web-Based System Management Tools.

18 Using the Administration Utility