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Re: Admin Console questions [doc issue]

From: <June.Parks_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:29:56 -0700

Dixie Pine wrote:
> Anissa Lam wrote:
>> Hi Olga,
>>
>> Thanks for looking closely at the online help. Regarding the usage
>> of each field, i hope the Admin Guide can answer your question.
> Just so everyone understands how the documentation is
> architected---The Admin Guide documents the using command line
> utilities; the Admin Console online help documents using the GUI. So
> fields in the Admin Console would need to be described in the online
> help, which Olga is working on.
>> I looked at the Admin Guild for v3 TP2 release,
>> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-4495/ablsw?a=view there is very
>> minimal information regarding HTTP Service. This probably needs
>> improvement.
> Certainly does. The TP2 ovcrview material was pulled from the 9.1
> Admin Guide (there wasn't much), and I wrote new material for
> performing basic tasks using the asadmin commands. I will certainly
> welcome more material for the HTTP Service, but for the Admin guide,
> it must be about the CLI, not the GUI.
For v3 Prelude, HTTP Service is changing. See the Prelude specs.

June
>> I am cc'ing the docs alias so they are aware of that. I'll prefer
>> that the web container team to answer your specific question
>> regarding each field. cc'ing Jan on this.
>>
>> As for #3 below, Security can be turned on or off for the listener
>> regardless of the profile. We will need to fix that in the On-Line
>> Help. Maybe you can file an issue so Paul can take care of that.
>>
>> thanks
>> Anissa.
>>
>> Olga Vasserman wrote:
>>> Hi everyone-
>>>
>>> I apologize for not calling into the meeting earlier today, I
>>> haven't been feeling well the last couple of days. I have some
>>> questions about the UI from the help angle, and would appreciate it
>>> if someone could go through these and comment.
>>>
>>> 1) Configuration node -> HTTP Service node -> HTTP Protocol tab
>>> I don't understand the difference between Forced Type and Default
>>> Type, and the help isn't being much help, so I would like to fix
>>> that. Can someone explain the two options to me? Also, what is the
>>> significance of the content-type, encoding, language, and charset
>>> values in step 8 if not all of them are used in default type value?
>>> Are these replaceable values, or just descriptive?
>>>
>>> 2) Configuration node -> HTTP Service node -> HTTP File Cache tab
>>> - Globally Enabled: what happens this box is deselected? Is caching
>>> disabled globally? Can it be enabled less than globally from a
>>> different page, or does deselecting the box mean no file caching at
>>> all?
>>>
>>> 3) Configuration node -> HTTP Service node -> HTTP Listeners node ->
>>> New
>>> - The help says regarding the Security Enabled checkbox: "In the
>>> Cluster and Enterprise profiles, check the Security checkbox if you
>>> want to create a listener that is secure." It was my understanding
>>> that profiles were not available under Prelude, or maybe it's just
>>> clusters? Is this option relevant for Prelude, and if so does the
>>> description above need to be altered in any way to reflect what's
>>> available in Prelude accurately?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Olga.
>>> --
>>> Olga Vasserman
>>> TechPubs Student Intern
>>> x15928
>>>
>>>
>>>
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