After you have created a Web Server role, you can configure user session time, usage statistics, the URL, port settings, and the SSL
certificate for the Security
Center
Web
Client.
What you should know
- By default, a Web Server is deployed to the main Security
Center server. If you have multiple Web Server
roles, assign each role to a different expansion server.
- The URL of each Web Client must be unique.
- You can set up load balancing by adding multiple servers in the
Resources page. Security
Center automatically uses the server with the
least number of connections.
- If end-users will monitor video in Web
Client using Mozilla Firefox or Microsoft Edge
browsers, make sure that one of the following conditions is met:
- A valid SSL certificate is installed on the server hosting the Web Server
role.
NOTE: If a third-party certificate was already installed on the server through
Windows, you can apply the certificate to Security
Center from Server
Admin: select your server from the
list, under the Secure communication section, click
Select certificate, select the certificate you want, and
then click .
- If using the default self-signed SSL certificate, make sure that the REST ports on
the Media Gateway role and the Web Server port settings match; the defaults are port
80 for HTTP and port 443 for HTTPS.
To modify a Web Server role:
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From the Config
Tool home page, open the
System task, and click the Roles view.
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Click the Web Server that you want to change.
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(Optional) From the Identity page:
- Change the name of the role as it appears in Config
Tool.
- Assign the role to a different partition to restrict its use to certain user groups.
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Click the Properties tab.
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Configure the behavior of a user session, by doing one of the following:
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Set Unlimited session time to
ON so that users remain logged on to Web
Client as long as they keep their browser
window open.
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Set Unlimited session time to
OFF so that users are automatically signed out of Web
Client after 12 hours of
inactivity.
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If the default port settings conflict with other roles or applications on your system, set Use the default web ports of the server to OFF, and change the ports.
By default, the HTTP port is 80 and the Secure HTTP port is 443.
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To change the URL used to access this Web Client, change the Web address.
To see the URL, look under the Communication settings.
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Click Apply.
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Verify that the URL opens Security
Center
Web
Client, by clicking the URL under
Communication settings on the Properties
page.
If you are using the default self-signed certificate and it is not installed on your
computer, your browser displays an error message. Proceed to the log on page by doing the following:
The Security
Center
Web
Client log on page appears.
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If you have multiple Web Server roles, move this role to its own expansion
server.
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To add failover and load balancing for this Web Server role, add a standby server.
