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The port used by the clients, configuration servlet, and the Service Manager can
be customized. For instructions on how to customize the port, see configuring
the configuration servlet and changing the Service Manager port in the online
help.
The Host On-Demand clients use the default port of 8999 to communicate with
the Service Manager for configuration information. If any of your clients are
outside the firewall, the firewall administrator must open this port internally
and externally. Optionally, you can customize the clients to access the
configuration servlet through a firewall over either HTTP or HTTPS. The
configuration servlet then communicates with the Service Manager on port 8999.
If both the configuration servlet and the Service Manager are inside the firewall,
port 8999 does not need to be opened for Host On-Demand.
v Publish the hodconfig servlet with an alias of /servlet/hodconfig. Refer to your
Web server or servlet engine documentation for information on about how to
make the configuration servlet known to the Web server. In general, you are
associating the fully qualified name of the servlet with an alias, such as
/servlet/hodconfig/hod.
v Stop and restart the Web server and the servlet engine, or refer to your Web
server or servlet engine documentation for information about saving the
changes.
Once the configuration servlet is installed, you must configure your clients to use
the configuration servlet instead of directly accessing the Service Manager. You can
use the Deployment Wizard to build customized HTML client pages. The wizard
sets the applet parameters in the HTML based on your input, so you don’t have to
learn the syntax and valid parameter values. We recommend that you use the
Deployment Wizard to set the ConfigServerURL parameter in the client HTML to
the name you assigned to the servlet through the servlet engine in the publish step
above. For example, if you set the name of the servlet to be /servlet/hodconfig,
set the Configuration Server URL to /servlet/hodconfig/hod.
The servlet alias and the value for the ConfigServerURL parameter are different.
If you find you need to manually modify the HTML, use the <param tag> inside
the <applet> tag to set the ConfigServerURL. For example, to set the
ConfigServerURL to /servlet/hodconfig/hod set <param name=ConfigServerURL
value=/servlet/hodconfig/hod> in the <applet> tag in the HTML client.
For more information regarding configuration servlet parameters, configuration
and examples, see Configuring the configuration servlet in the online help.
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