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About Apache HTTP Server Authorization and Access Control
3PAR System Reporter User’s Guide
System Reporter 2.8
3.11 About Apache HTTP Server Authorization and Access Control
You can configure Apache HTTP Server to require a username and password before allowing a
user to:
■
read the 3PAR System Reporter database or view the database sampling policies.
■
make changes to database sampling policies.
One username and password pair can be used for both, or a different username/password pair
can be used for each of these functions. Using two username/password pairs will allow you to
configure System Reporter such that a user is able to read the database and view sampling
policies, but is not allowed to modify System Reporter database policy settings.
Apache HTTP Server authorization and access control information is stored in the main
configuration file,
httpd.conf
. You can add one or two
Directory
directives to the
httpd.conf
file to control user access to the System Reporter database as described above.
Refer to the contents of the
httpd.conf
file as well as your Apache documentation for more
information regarding the directives contained in this file and how to add
Directory
directives.
When adding
Directory
directives to the
httpd.conf
file, a username and password pair
applied to the
cgi-bin/3par-rpts
directory will control reading of the database and the
display of policy settings. A username and password pair applied to the
cgi-bin/3par-
policy
directory will control modifications to the policy settings.
Within the
Directory
directive, the
AuthName
property corresponds to a field that appears
in the connection dialog box that the user sees when trying to access restricted functionality
CAUTION: Depending on your Web browser, simply clicking the Excel Client
link may cause the Excel client to open in your browser window, which will not
give you access to the full Excel client functionality. Be sure to save the file on
your local machine and then refer to
Accessing the Optional Excel Client
page 4.6 for further instructions.
NOTE: Viewing and editing the 3PAR System Reporter database sampling policies
can only be done via Web browser, as described in