3.1
Table Of Contents
- View Manager Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction
- Installation
- View Administrator
- Virtual Desktop Deployment
- Client Management
- View Client and View Portal
- Client Connections from the Internet
- Creating SSL Server Certificates
- Using Existing SSL Certificates
- Smart Card Authentication
- RSA SecurID Authentication
- View Client Command Line Options
- Virtual Printing
- Adobe Flash Bandwidth Reduction
- Client Device Information
- Enabling HP RGS Display Protocol
- View Composer
- Overview of View Composer
- Preparing VirtualCenter for View Composer
- Preparing a Parent VM
- Deploying Linked Clone Desktops from View Manager
- Refreshing, Recomposing, and Rebalancing Linked Clone Desktops
- Using an Existing View Composer Database
- Using the SviConfig Tool for View Composer
- Offline Desktop
- Component Policies
- Unified Access
- Troubleshooting
- locked.properties
- Glossary
- Index
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Chapter 3 View Administrator
Security Servers
SecurityserversoperatewithinaDMZandrunasubsetofthefullViewConnection
Serverfunctionality.Byusingasecurityserverasanintermediaryconnectionlayer,
ViewManagerensuresthatonlyauthenticateduserscanattemptaconnectiontoyour
internalnetwork.
Securityserversoffergreaternetworksecuritytoenvironmentsthat
allowclientsto
accessthemfromtheInternet.Referto“SecurityServerInstallation”onpage 30for
moreinformationaboutthis.
TheSecurityServerstableallowsyoutoaddoneormoresecurityserverinstancesto
yourViewManagerenvironment.YoucanAdd,Edit,orRemoveinformationabout
securityserverspresent
inyourenvironmentbyusingthelinksprovided.
TheCreateConfigurationFilelinkisusedtoexpeditethecreationofconfiguration
filesthatallowthesecurityserverstocorrectlyrouteclientrequestsreceivedfromthe
Internet.Referto“ClientConnectionsfromtheInternet”onpage 88formore
informationaboutexternalconnections,
and“TogenerateaSecurityServer
config.propertiesfilefromtheConfigurationview”onpage 90formoreinformation
aboutthisfeature.
View Servers
TheViewServerstableallowsyoutoenableordisablethecurrentViewConnection
Server—indicatedbyacheckmark—andanyreplicainstancesofViewConnection
Serverknowntothethisserver.Selectaserverentryfromthetableprovidedandclick:
Enabletoallowuserstoconnecttotheirclientsusingthisserver.
Disabletorefusefutureclientconnectionstothisserver.Existingclient
connectionsarenotaffectedbythisaction.
EdittodisplaytheViewServerSettingswindowwhereyoucanmodifyvarious
communicationandauthenticationproperties.Thesepropertiesaredescribedin
Table 3‐3.
BackupNowtoinitiateanimmediateserverbackupforallViewConnection
Servers.
NOTETheViewManagerConfigurationBackuppropertiesgroupinViewServer
SettingsallowsyoutoconfiguretheautomatedbackupscheduleforView
ConnectionServerdata.SeeTable 3‐3,“ViewServerSettings,”onpage 56.