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Re: Admin Console questions [doc issue]

From: Jan Luehe <Jan.Luehe_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:35:09 -0700

June.Parks_at_Sun.COM wrote:
> 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.

Actually, no changes in this area for Prelude.
They were deemed too risky at this point.

This was decided yesterday (on August 7).

The config changes will be addressed first thing after a
branch for Prelude as been created.

Thanks,

Jan


>
> 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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