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MACROMEDIA BREEZE 5 - INSTALLING AND CONFIGURING EDGE SERVER Manual

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  • Page 1 Installing and Configuring Breeze Edge Server...
  • Page 2 Other product names, logos, designs, titles, words, or phrases mentioned within this publication may be trademarks, service marks, or trade names of Macromedia, Inc. or other entities and may be registered in certain jurisdictions including internationally.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents Introduction to edge servers ........6 Connecting to Breeze through edge servers .
  • Page 4 Contents...
  • Page 5 Macromedia Breeze Edge Server For a successful installation and configuration of Macromedia Breeze Edge Server, read the information provided in this document. It contains the following sections: “Introduction to edge servers” on page 6 “Connecting to Breeze through edge servers” on page 8 “System requirements”...

  • Page 6: Introduction To Edge Servers

    Breeze through their edge server. Edge servers authenticate these users and authorize their requests for web services such as Macromedia Breeze Meeting rather than forwarding every request to the Breeze server and consuming its resources for these tasks. If the data requested is found in the edge server’s cache, it returns the Breeze Meeting data to the requesting client...
  • Page 7 An edge server is configured to intercept the requests for Breeze services from a particular zone, to collect or aggregate these requests, and transmit them to the origin Breeze server. The Breeze server returns the results to the edge server, which forwards the data to the user’s client computer.

  • Page 8: Connecting To Breeze Through Edge Servers

    2 GB RAM minimum Hard Drive 80 GB 10K RPM recommended 40 GB 7200 RPM minimum Network Adaptor TCP/IP Adaptor supporting 1 GB over CAT5 Ethernet Display SGVA supporting 800x600 or higher resolution Drive CD-ROM or DVD-ROM Macromedia Breeze Edge Server...

  • Page 9: Installing Breeze Edge Server

    Installing Breeze Edge Server Use the procedures described in this section to install the Breeze Edge Server. Macromedia recommends that you close all other applications before starting to install. To install and configure Breeze Edge Server: Insert the installation CD into the CD-ROM drive. If the Macromedia Breeze Edge Server Setup wizard does not start automatically, double-click the setup.exe file in the installation...
  • Page 10 Click Next to continue. The License Agreement window appears. Read the agreement, select I Accept the Agreement, and click Next to continue. The Select Destination Location window appears. Macromedia Breeze Edge Server...
  • Page 11 Click Next to accept the default installation location, or click Browse to select a different location, and then click Next. If the wizard detects a previous installation of a Breeze Edge Server, you will see the following screen. Click Next to continue. The Select Start Menu Folder window appears.
  • Page 12 The Ready to Install window alerts you that the Breeze installation is about to begin. Review the choices for the destination folder where Breeze will be installed and for adding Macromedia Breeze Edge Server to the Start Menu folder. Macromedia Breeze Edge Server...
  • Page 13 Server files on the installation CD and install them. This process takes less than two minutes. Click Cancel at any time if you want to abort or cancel the installation. When the installation is complete, the Completing the Macromedia Breeze Edge Server Setup Wizard window appears. Click Finish to exit the Edge Server installation.

  • Page 14: The Breeze Edge Server License File

    The Breeze Edge Server license file When your order for Breeze Edge Server is processed, Macromedia Order Services dispatches an e-mail with the Breeze Edge Server license file (license.lic) attached. To install the Breeze Edge Server license file, do the following:...

  • Page 15: Mapping The Dns Entry For Breeze Edge Server

    Mapping the DNS entry for Breeze Edge Server Mapping the DNS entry for an edge server is comparable to mapping the BREEZE_HOST variable for Breeze Server on the Breeze Application Management Console. For example, if the value for BREEZE_HOST (the host name to use in a URL for accessing the Breeze origin server) is breeze.mycompany.com, the DNS entry for an edge server maps breeze.mycompany.com to the IP address of the nearest edge server.

  • Page 16: Configuring Fcs For Ssl

    Alternative SSL implementations FCS also supports the following implementations for SSL-secured transmissions: SSL through an external hardware accelerator SSL through an internal PCI card The PCI-card based implementation has not been tested at this writing. Macromedia Breeze Edge Server...

  • Page 17: Http Tunneling

    HTTP tunneling For SSL to work properly, HTTP tunneling must be enabled. Clients use HTTP tunneling to connect to the server via SSL. HTTP tunneling is enabled by default. No user action is required. Adding the required SSL tags in the Adaptor.xml file All SSL tags in the Server.xml file are included by default.
  • Page 18 Adaptor directory. If the key file is encrypted, the pass phrase must be specified in the tag. SSLPassPhrase attribute specifies the type type of encoding used for the certificate key file. This can be either ASN1 Macromedia Breeze Edge Server...
  • Page 19 FCS File XML Tag Default Description Adaptor.xml Specifies the ciphers to use. SSLCipherSuite This is a list of colon-delimited components. A component can be a key exchange algorithm, authentication method, encryption method, digest type, or one of a selected number of aliases for common groupings.
  • Page 20 CA's, you can trust that the person is who he says he is because you trust the issuer of the certificate. Each certificate in the directory must be named by the subject name's hash, and an extension of ".0". Macromedia Breeze Edge Server...
  • Page 21 FCS File XML Tag Default Description Server.xml This tag specifies the name of a SSLCACertificatePath directory containing one or more (CA) certificates. Windows only: Because MS Windows installs certificates in the registry, there is no file system directory that contains all the certificates of trusted root certificates.
  • Page 22 4758cca. Each item identifies a type of cryptographic hardware accelerator. A cryptographic accelerator is a piece of hardware that offloads the CPU-intensive cryptographic operations, thereby reducing the demand on resources and making the server more scalable. Macromedia Breeze Edge Server...
  • Page 23 FCS File XML Tag Default Description Server.xml [none] Specifies the name of a SSLCACertificatePath directory containing CA certificates. Each file in the directory must contain only a single CA certificate, and the files must be named by the subject name's hash and an extension of ".0".

  • Page 24: Stopping And Starting Breeze Edge Server

    You can verify that the installation was successful by stopping and starting Breeze Edge Server and the FCS services that support it. To start Breeze Edge Server: Select Start > Programs > Macromedia Breeze Edge Server > Start Breeze Edge Server. To verify that Edge Server is operating: Go to the Control Panel.

  • Page 25: Deploying An Edge Server Cluster

    To stop Breeze Edge Server: Select Start > Programs > Macromedia > Macromedia Breeze 5 > Stop Breeze Server. To verify that Edge Server is not operating: Go to the Control Panel. Select the Services Panel. Locate the following services: Flash Communication Administration Server and Flash Communication Server.

  • Page 26: Scheduling Maintenance

    Consult the vendor documentation for instructions on how to configure the load balancer. Scheduling maintenance Macromedia recommends that you create a weekly scheduled task to clear the edge server cache. To create this scheduled task: Create a cache.bat file to delete the cache directory. The entry in this file should have the following syntax: del /Q /S <cache directory>\*.*...

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