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This documentation is intended to help administrators determine how to deploy security and administration options in a WebFOCUS environment.
This manual includes the following chapters:
Chapter/Appendix | Contents | |
1 | Presents a general overview of WebFOCUS components and how they can be deployed to create a WebFOCUS environment. | |
2 | Presents a general overview of WebFOCUS processing. | |
3 | Describes the WebFOCUS Administration Console, which enables you to remotely manage your WebFOCUS environment. | |
4 | Provides information about core processing for the WebFOCUS Client. | |
5 | Describes WebFOCUS Reporting Server core processing including information about Reporting Server security and configuring Reporting Servers in a WebFOCUS environment. | |
6 | Provides information about Managed Reporting processing and security. | |
7 | Configuring Managed Reporting for Trusted or External Authentication | Describes how to configure WebFOCUS authentication by an external directory or the Web server. |
8 | Describes how to configure WebFOCUS authorization by an external directory. | |
9 | Describes how to configure WebFOCUS for use with SSL, how to implement AES, DES, and Triple DES encryption, how to encrypt WebFOCUS files, and other encryption features. | |
10 | Describes the WebFOCUS script language and methods for copying variables to and from the WebFOCUS variable table. | |
11 | Describes how to configure the driver distributed with WebFOCUS to use various third party products as your authorization and/or authentication repository. | |
12 | Describes WebFOCUS features for controlling access to data and metadata. | |
13 | Describes how to configure WebFOCUS for national languages, how to enable the Dynamic Language Switch, and how to edit the message files that contain WebFOCUS Client messages for each national language that WebFOCUS supports. | |
14 | Describes recommended file permissions and other features for preventing changes to your installed options. | |
A | Describes how to create a plug-in that implements the WebFOCUS exit to customize WebFOCUS client processing for every request. | |
B | Describes how to extend the WebFOCUS Managed Reporting Realm Driver to access a custom repository for authentication and/or authorization. | |
C | Describes the Pre-Verify User ID Exit (PVUIDXT) that may be used for custom authentication by the WebFOCUS Reporting Server. | |
D | Describes the WebFOCUS DBA Exit that enables Master Files to use replaceable parameters. | |
E | Describes how to access a custom security system from Developer Studio. |
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THIS TYPEFACE or this typeface |
Denotes syntax that you must enter exactly as shown. |
this typeface |
Represents a placeholder (or variable) in syntax for a value that you or the system must supply. |
underscore |
Indicates a default setting. |
this typeface |
Represents a placeholder (or variable), a cross-reference, or an important term. It may also indicate a button, menu item, or dialog box option you can click or select. |
this typeface |
Highlights a file name or command. |
Key + Key |
Indicates keys that you must press simultaneously. |
{ } |
Indicates two or three choices; type one of them, not the braces. |
[ ] |
Indicates a group of optional parameters. None is required, but you may select one of them. Type only the parameter in the brackets, not the brackets. |
| |
Separates mutually exclusive choices in syntax. Type one of them, not the symbol. |
... |
Indicates that you can enter a parameter multiple times. Type only the parameter, not the ellipsis points (...). |
. . . |
Indicates that there are (or could be) intervening or additional commands. |
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