Configuring Virtual Host Settings - Dell SMA 200 Administration Manual

Configuring Virtual Host Settings

Creating a virtual host allows users to log in using a different hostname than your default URL. For example,
sales members can access https://sales.company.com instead of the default domain,
https://vpn.company.com that you use for administration. The Portal URL (for example,
https://vpn.company.com/portal/sales) still exists even if you define a virtual host name. Virtual host names
enable administrators to give separate and distinct login URLs to different groups of users.
To create a Virtual Host Domain Name:
1 Navigate to Portals > Portals.
2 Click Add Portal or Configure next to the portal you want to configure. The Add Portal or Edit Portal
screen displays.
3 Click the Virtual Host tab.
4 Enter a host name in the Virtual Host Domain Name field, for example, sales.company.com. This field
is optional.
Only alphanumeric characters, hyphen (-) and underscore (_) are accepted in the Virtual Host Domain
Name field.
5 Select a specific Virtual Host Interface for this portal if using IP based virtual hosting.
If your virtual host implementation uses name based virtual hosts — where more than one hostname
resides behind a single IP address — choose All Interfaces from the Virtual Host interface.
6 If you selected a specific Virtual Host Interface for this portal, enter the desired Virtual Host IP
Address in the field provided. This is the IP address users use in order to access the Virtual Office portal.
NOTE: Be sure to add an entry in your external DNS server to resolve the virtual hostname
and domain name to the external IP address of your SMA/SRA appliance.
7 If you selected a specific Virtual Host Interface for this portal, you can specify an IPv6 address in the
Virtual Host IPv6 Address field. You can use this address to access the virtual host. Enter the IPv6
address using decimal or hexadecimal numbers in the form:
2001::A987:2:3:4321
8 If you plan to use a unique security certificate for this sub-domain, select the corresponding port
interface address from the Virtual Host Certificate list.
Unless you have a certificate for each virtual host domain name, or if you have purchased a *.domain SSL
certificate, your users might see a Certificate host name mismatch warning when they log in to the
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