5.3
Table Of Contents
- vFabric Web Server Installation and Configuration
- Table of Contents
- 1. About vFabric Web Server Installation and Configuration
- 2. Overview of vFabric Web Server
- 3. Installing vFabric Web Server
- Installation Note for vFabric Suite Customers
- Available Distribution Packages
- RHEL: Install vFabric Web Server from an RPM
- Unix: Install vFabric Web Server from a Self-Extracting ZIP
- Windows: Install vFabric Web Server from a ZIP File
- Activate a vFabric Web Server Local License
- Description of the vFabric Web Server Installation
- 4. Upgrading vFabric Web Server
- 5. Migrating Enterprise Ready Server to vFabric Web Server
- 6. Creating and Using vFabric Web Server Instances
- 7. Configuring vFabric Web Server Instances
- Using Sample Configuration Files to Enable Features and Modify Configuration
- Configure Load Balancing Between Two or More tc Runtime Instances
- Configure SSL Between vFabric Web Server and vFabric tc Server
- Configure tc Runtime Instances to Use SSL
- Configure the vFabric Web Server Instance to Use SSL
- Restrict Communication With tc Runtime Instances to Known Clients
- Update the Web Server Configuration for HTTPS Connections to tc Runtime Instances
- Configure vFabric Web Server to Authenticate Itself Using a Specific Client Certificate
- Configure BMX for Monitoring vFabric Web Server Instances
- Metrics
- 8. Security Information
- 9. Managing Planned and Unplanned Outages
- 10. Additional Documentation
44 vFabric Web Server
44
Configuring vFabric Web Server
Instances
SetHandler bmx-handler
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1 myhost.com
</Location>
3. To restrict BMX access to a particular virtual host, put the <Location /bmx> directive inside the appropriate
<VirtualHost> directive. For example:
<VirtualHost 10.1.2.3:80>
DocumentRoot "/opt/vmware/vfabric-web-server/myserver/myhost.com/htdocs"
ServerName status.myhost.com
...
<Location /bmx>
SetHandler bmx-handler
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1 myhost.com
</Location>
</VirtualHost>
What to do next
• Restart the vFabric Web Server instance for the configuration changes to take effect. For example, on Unix:
prompt# cd /opt/vmware/vfabric-web-server/myserver
prompt# bin/httpdctl restart
Metrics
This section lists the metrics reported by the Hyperic plugin for vFabric Web Server.
vFabric Web Server Server Metrics
This section lists the metric available for a server.
Table 7.1. Metric Definitions
Metric Alias Units Category Default
On
Default Interval
Availability Availability percentage Availability true5 min
Server Uptime ServerUptimeSeconds none Availability false5 min
Busy Workers BusyWorkers none Utilization true5 min
Idle Workers IdleWorkers none Utilization true5 min
Bytes Served Per Second KilobytesPerSec KB Throughput false5 min
Bytes Served Per Request KilobytesPerReq KB Throughput false5 min
Requests Served Per
Second
ReqPerSec none Throughput true5 min
Requests Served TotalAccesses none Throughput false10 min
Requests Served per
Minute
TotalAccesses1m none Throughput true10 min
Bytes Served TotalTrafficKilobyes KB Throughput false10 min
Bytes Served per Minute TotalTrafficKilobyes1m KB Throughput true10 min