This section focuses on setting up and administering intermediary services, such as Web servers, proxy servers, and Datapower applicances.
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The product works with a Web server to route requests for dynamic content, such as servlets, from Web applications. The Web servers are necessary for directing traffic from browsers to the applications that run in an application server. The Web server plug-in uses the XML configuration file to determine whether a request is for an application server.
The DataPower® appliance manager automatically starts if you issue a request to the DataPower appliance manager and it is not already started. You can initiate a request using the wsadmin tool, or by selecting any of the administrative console pages that enable you to view or change settings for DataPower appliances, firmware, or managed sets, or the administrative console page that is used to monitor DataPower appliance manager tasks. The appliance manager also automatically starts when the deployment manager starts if there are any DataPower appliances configured in the appliance manager.
A proxy server is a specific type of application server that routes HTTP requests to content servers that perform the work. Proxy servers can be classified according to the role that it plays in a system. This specific proxy server is classified as a reverse proxy server because the main function is to act as the first point of contact, not including the firewall, for client requests into enterprise server.