iTP WebServer Workshop for NonStop Servers Training in Ireland

A working knowledge of C or C and Java programming languages

Audience

Personnel involved with installation, management, programming, and support of the iTP WebServer and applications developed in the iTP WebServer environment

• Explain the development of commercial data processing on the Internet
• Describe the basic features of World Wide Web technology
• Configure a basic iTP WebServer file server environment
• Alter the basic configuration to enable advanced control options in the iTP WebServer
• Enhance the environment to perform secure transactions using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol
• Manage and control the operation of the iTP WebServer environment
• Describe the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) standard for interfacing with web servers, the HP Pathway CGI implementation, and the differences between the two approaches
• Describe the implementation of Java servlets and Java Server Pages (JSPs) and how they differ from generic CGI and Pathway CGI
• Code, compile, deploy, and execute Java servlets and JSPs in the iTP WebServer environment using the Apache Tomcat container

Module 1 - Web Technology on the Internet

• Origin of the Internet
• Packet switching
• ARPAnet
• Emergence of international operations
• Creation of a common protocol
• TCP/IP addresses and domains
• The World Wide Web
• Transaction classes - the new model

Module 2 - TS/MP and iTP WebServer
Components

• Major design goals for NonStop systems
• NonStop system - layered environment
• TS/MP environment
• Server class concept
• Distributed TS/MP implementation
• Pathway/TS product
• Client/server using RSC and TS/MP products
• iTP WebServer architecture
• iTP WebServer and iTP active transaction pages
• Application migration
• Migrating client/server applications

Module 3 - iTP WebServer Functions and
Products

• Basic file server
• File content - useful.html
• Browser processing of HTML documents
• Generic CGI processing
• CGI script - hello.cgi
• Pathway legacy systems
• Java servlets
• Active Transaction Pages (ATP) applications
• Resource Locator Service (RLS)
• Anonymous ticketing

Module 4 - Security Considerations

• Existing private networks
• Intercompany communication
• Applications on the Internet
• Problems for commercial use of the internet
• Message security - encryption methods
• Encryption algorithms
• Relative speed
• Certificate Authorities (CAs)
• Using the certificate
• Emerging Internet standards for WWW
• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
• Private Communication Technology (PCT) protocol
• iTP WebServer support
• Atalla WebSafe Internet security processor
• iTP WebServer/Atalla WebSafe Internet security processor integration

Module 5 - Preinstallation Planning

• Hardware and software requirements
• Checking product files
• System checks - DNR, TCP/IP, and OSS
• Safeguard subsystem considerations
• TF and SQL/MP environments
• Java development kit requirement

Module 6 - Installation

• Installing iTP WebServer software
• Out-of-box installation
• setup script
• Administration server overview
• setup script dialog
• Administration server
• iTP WebServer environment
• Standard commands
• EMS template installation
• Installing and configuring the RLS
• Lab: basic installation

Module 7 - Configuration

• iTP WebServer PATHMON configuration
• TS/MP component configuration
• Server class configurations
• Overriding server class parameters
• Accept directive
• Logging function and modes
• Log file content
• Selecting log format
• Logging domain names - reverselookup
• Finding content files
• Mapping URLs to OSS files
• Partitioning content using filemap
• Mapping URLs to Guardian file space
• Returning default HTML documents
• Region commands
• Automatic directory indexing
• Requiring a password
• User ID and password prompts
• Virtual host support
• Defining server messages
• Customized message display
• Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
• (MIME)
• iTP WebServer MIME types
• Standard MIME types for iTP WebServer
• Processing local server class and generic-CGI requests
• Processing requests for other environments
• Running with Guardian files and commands
• Server-side includes
• Lab: customized installation

Module 8 - Configuring for Security

• Basic security
• Configuring for SSL and PCT
• AcceptSecureTransport - other options
• Distinguished Names (DNs)
• Certificates
• Obtaining a certificate
• Creating a public/private key pair
• keyadmin command output
• Certificate request message
• Installing the certificate
• Certificate record
• RequireSecureTransport for secure access
• Hardware encryption with WebSafe2
• Internet security processor
• Enabling hardware encryption
• Installing and configuring the WID
• The WebSafe2 Internet security processor
• The make_key_websafe utility
• How hardware encryption works
• Lab: security

Module 9 - Additional Management Issues

• Log-file maintenance
• Improving DNS performance
• TS/MP management
• Checking status and server class status
• Displaying server configuration
• Performance - server statistics
• PATHMON status
• Controlling TS/MP logging
• Using command files for configuration
• Extended configuration from the OSS environment
• Viewing EMS log files
• Lab: pathway demonstration

Module 10 - Pathway CGI Programming

• Generic CGI processing
• CGI environment variables
• Generic CGI performance
• Default MIME type
• Pathway CGI implementation and procedures
• Automatic form decoding
• Processing input in a pathway CGI program
• HTML form
• Structured database access
• Pathway CGI coding considerations
• Maintaining context
• Configuring a pathway CGI server class
• Using MIME types
• Security design considerations

Module 11 - Java Servlets and JSP

• Introduction to Java
• iTP secure WebServer servlet architecture
• Java servlet implementation
• Java development kit directory structure
• Java compilation
• Java servlet standard API and code
• JDBC transaction drivers
• Transaction unaware driver
• ddl2java tool and using ddl2java
• JPathsend
• Installing NonStop Servlets for JavaServer Pages (NSJSP)
• setup script
• Directory and configuration overview
• Configuring the servlet server class
• Java Server Pages (JSP)
• Lab: Java servlet and JSP programming

Onsite Delivery Equipment Requirements:

• NonStop H-series server
• 30 MB of memory per student (plus swap space for one NonStop TS/MP application per student)
• Appropriate Ethernet controller

Server Software Requirements:

• NonStop server requirements:
  • -H06.16 or later version of the NonStop operating system
  • iTP secure WebServer (exportable) version 6 or greater (SJ99V6 or greater)
  • - NonStop Server for Java, SDK 1.5.2 or greater (HSJ96V5A or greater)
  • NonStop Servlets for JavaServer Pages
  • (HSJ88V6 or greater)
  • NonStop TM/MP, NonStop SQL/MP,
  • Safeguard, OSS, and NonStop TS/MP applications
• TCP/IP
• LAN access to the Internet is preferred

Client Hardware Requirements:

• PC with minimum of:
  • 256 Mhz processor
  • 64 MB of RAM
  • Hard drive with 20 MB free space

Client Softwre Requirements:

• Windows operating system
• Outside View or other 6530 and VT
• 100 emulator
• TCP/IP stack (preferably Microsoft)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer browser software
• All workstations must have TCP/IP addresses