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Security Considerations and System
Requirements for Application
Manager 3
When you install and configure Application Manager, you install the Application Manager virtual appliance
and use both the Application Manager virtual appliance interface and the Application Manager Web interface
for configuration purposes. You must manage the Web interface with care to avoid security issues.
Consider the Application Manager system requirements within the context of the following security concerns:
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The Application Manager virtual appliance interface is accessible to anyone with access to the machine
on which vSphere and the virtual appliance are hosted. Protection relies on firewalling and enforcing
authentication to the vSphere host.
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The Application Manager Web interface listens on HTTP ports 8443 for administration and port 443 for
user authentication.
Insecure mode
8080 for operation and administration and 80 for user authentication.
Secure mode
8443 for operation and administration and 443 for user authentication.
For quick trials and tests, you can use Insecure mode. For pre-production testing and production, you should
switch to Secure mode.
Application Manager Recommendations and Requirements
To synchronize your Active Directory data effectively with Application Manager, ensure that the environment
for the Application Manager virtual appliance meets the minimum requirements.
The following components are required:
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The Application Manager virtual appliance that VMware provides as an Open Virtual Appliance .ova file.
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VMware vSphere as the host of the virtual appliance. See the release notes for the currently supported
vSphere versions.
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A virtual machine client, such as vSphere Client, that provides access to Application Manager virtual
appliance interface. This client is required to deploy the .ova file to vSphere and to access the deployed
virtual appliance remotely in order to configure networking.
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The appropriate VMware licenses.
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A conversion tool, if your VMware hypervisor does not open OVA files directly. VMware offers a free
tool for Windows and Linux. See “Convert the Virtual Appliance File Format,” on page 24.
You must consider your entire Application Manager deployment. Therefore, consider how you are integrating
the Connector with Application Manager when you make decisions about hardware, resource, and network
requirements. See Installing and Configuring the Connector.
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