This is not the place to send your requests for future enhancements, though
you are welcome to talk about them.


>>I hope that netview 6.0 will come with at least Apache 1.3.6 and all
module
>>mechanism enabled so we could compile some misc modules for it
>>(namely: mod_perl and mod_php3)


I know of no plans to enahnce the web client for the next release.  So if
you want that to happen then, as always, you should put your suggestions in
a note and send it to netview AT tivoli DOT com for consideration.  If you 
don't,
then the product planners may never do what you want.

James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support



REIBENSCHUH Alfred <alfred.reibenschuh AT IT-AUSTRIA DOT COM> on 04/30/99 
05:46:14
AM

Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on
      NetView <NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU>

To:   NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU
cc:    (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
Subject:  Re: Using the Apache server of Netview





"frederic_mottiat AT BE.IBM DOT COM" wrote :

>[...]
>No we would like to restrict the access to the NWays web pages, but not to
>the Netview ones. As such, security has not been turned on in Netview.
>We wanted to use the Apache's basic security options, but get no results
>with it.
>Usually, if this was a real and complete Apache server (which I suppose it
>is), you would just create a .htaccess file in the directory you want to
>limit the access to, and put in this file something like :
>
>AuthName "Restricted Access"
>AuthType Basic
>AuthUserFile /usr/OV/web/httpd/conf/nways.user
>require valid-user
>
>We have created the nways.user file using the htpasswd binary found in
>/usr/OV/web/httpd, but when I point my browser to the directory in which
my
>HTML files are, I got no user/passwd prompt.
>I'm sure this .htaccess file is read, because if I add the statement :
>"deny for all" in it, then I cannot get access to this directory anymore.
>
>Has anyone already tried to use this Apache server that way ? With success
?
>If yes, please tell me how... I feel I'm missing something...

We have currently a apache 1.3.6 installed parallel to the
netview-webserver
and integrated some of the configuration directives of the
netview-webserver
to equally serve both netview and other pages with our own security
(none or apache).


"James_Shanks AT TIVOLI DOT COM" wrote:

>I don't know the whole answer, but one of the developers told me that  we
>put hooks into the user/password validation to force the Apache server to
>use NetView userids and passwords.  So I wouldn't be surprised if the
line:
>     AuthUserFile /usr/OV/web/httpd/conf/nways.user
>has no effect.
>
>One way to do this may be to serve the the Nways pages off another web
>server (using different ports for the NetView and Nways web servers)

I hope that netview 6.0 will come with at least Apache 1.3.6 and all module
mechanism enabled so we could compile some misc modules for it
(namely: mod_perl and mod_php3)

Hopefully,


mfg. Alfred Reibenschuh
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