B Traffic Manager Configuration Options; The Server Basics Page - HP P4535A - Web Cache Server Appliance Administrator's Manual

B Traffic Manager Configuration Options

This appendix describes the configuration options in the following Traffic Manager Configure pages:
The Server Basics page‚ on page 128
The Protocols page‚ on page 131
The Cache page‚ on page 135
The Security page‚ on page 137
The Routing page‚ on page 138
The Host Database page‚ on page 139
The Logging page‚ on page 140
The Snapshots page‚ on page 143
The Plugins page‚ on page 143
The Content Management page‚ on page 143

The Server Basics page

The following table describes the configuration options on the Server Basics page.
Option
Traffic Server on/off
Traffic Server Name
Traffic Server Port
Traffic Server User ID
Local Domain Expansion
Description
Traffic Server
Turns the
traffic_server
all caching and proxying services on a node-by-node basis. You can
turn the
traffic_server
time.
Normally, the
traffic_server
However, you must turn the Traffic Server off before performing
certain maintenance tasks.
Displays the hostname of your Traffic Server or the hostnames of all
the nodes in a cluster.
Specifies the port number by which all browsers can connect to the
proxy process that runs on the Traffic Server system. The port must
be dedicated.
NOTE: The default proxy port number is 8080.
The Traffic Server's manager process must run as root to bind to port
numbers less than 1024.
Specifies the user ID for the Traffic Server's proxy process. You
cannot edit your user ID on this page.
Turns local domain expansion on so that Traffic Server can attempt
to resolve unqualified hostnames by expanding to the local domain.
For example, if a client makes a request to an unqualified host
named , and if the Traffic Server's local domain is
host_x
the Traffic Server will expand the hostname to
process on or off, which shuts down
process on or off only one node at a
process should remain on.
host_x.y.com.
y.com,
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