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The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Secure Web Administrator Proxy provides a secure method for the Tivoli Storage Manager administrative Web interface to retrieve Web pages without affecting the performance of the server. A Web proxy on a separate Web server machine, not the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager server, fills requests from the administrative Web interface for images and HTML pages. A single Web server can handle requests for multiple IBM Tivoli Storage Manager servers on different platforms as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and the Web Proxy
The Web proxy connects to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager as a client, secures the connection, and retrieves Web pages or submits forms. The Tivoli Storage Manager server responds with the requested HTML pages and redirects the URLs in the page to the Web proxy. When the Web proxy receives the response, it passes the information to the Web server. The Web server's Secure Socket Layer (SSL) package encrypts the information and returns it to the Web browser.