Configuring Proxy Service Support For The Monitor Web Console; Monitoring Messenger Agents - Novell GROUPWISE 8 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

63.10 Configuring Proxy Service Support for the
Monitor Web Console
The Monitor Web console
Monitor Web console from outside your firewall, by default you cannot access the agent Web
consoles from outside your firewall. To enable the Monitor Web console to display the agent Web
consoles from outside your firewall, you need to enable the Monitor Agent to support proxy service.
1 In a text editor, open the Monitor Application configuration file (
The default location of this file varies by platform.
Linux:
Windows:
2 Locate the following line:
Provider.GWMP.Agent.Http.level=basic
3 Change it to:
Provider.GWMP.Agent.Http.level=full
The basic setting restricts use of the Monitor Web console to within a firewall, while the full
setting allows use of the Web console both inside and outside a firewall. A third setting, none,
disables use of the Web console.
4 Save and exit the Monitor Application configuration file.
5 Start the Monitor Agent with the
For information about startup switches, see
Switches," on page
Without proxy service support enabled, the Monitor Web console, after it gets a GroupWise agent's
address from the Monitor Agent, communicates directly with the GroupWise agent. This process,
however, does not work when communicating through a firewall.
With proxy service support enabled, all communication is routed through the Monitor Agent and
Monitor Application (on the Web server). As long as the Web server can be accessed through the
firewall, the Monitor Web console can receive information about all GroupWise agents that the
Monitor Agent knows about.

63.11 Monitoring Messenger Agents

Monitor can be used to monitor Messenger agents as well as GroupWise agents. In fact, Monitor can
be used independently to monitor Messenger Agents. If you start Monitor with no access to
GroupWise system, you are prompted for the information Monitor needs in order to start monitoring
Messenger agents.
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provides links to the agent Web consoles. Although you can access the
/opt/novell/groupwise/gwmonitor
c:\Novell\GroupWise\gwmonitor
/proxy
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gwmonitor.cfg
on the Web server
startup switch.
Chapter 67, "Using Monitor Agent Startup
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