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  QuickSpecs

Internet Express Version 5.9 for Tru64 UNIX

Overview
HP Internet Express for Tru64TM UNIX is a collection of popular Internet software and administration software developed by Hewlett-Packard. Internet Express is shipped with all Tru64TM UNIX AlphaServerTM systems, or it can be purchased separately.

Internet Express provides the following features and benefits:

  • A collection of open source Internet software (binaries and sources), tested and qualified on Tru64TM UNIX
  • Automatic installation and configuration of Internet software
  • All services configured to run on TruClusterTM Server, providing a true high availability environment
  • Web-based Administration utility, with online help, to manage Internet services and tune kernel attributes for Internet service performance
  • IPv6 support in some components: UW-IMAP, Pine (IMAP client), POP3, procmail, sendmail, TCP Wrapper, IRC (chat client and server), BIND Domain Name System, and Apache 2.0 EAK

Internet software packaged with Internet Express:

  • iPlanet and OpenLDAP Directory Servers and the Mozilla LDAP Software Developer’s Kit (SDK) Version 5.0 for C for developing LDAP applications
  • Internet Monitor, a Quality of Service (QoS) tool developed by Tru64TM UNIX Engineering. System administrators can use the Internet Monitor to monitor the performance of Internet servers.
  • Secure Web Server (powered by Apache)
  • BIND V9 Domain Name System
  • Tools for providing dynamic Web content (Perl, PHP, Jakarta Tomcat, and XML tools)
  • XML and Web Services Tools (Xerces, Xalan, SOAP, UDDI4J, Cocoon, FOP, Batik)
  • Web indexing and search system (ht://Dig)
  • Samba File and Print Server for Windows
  • Security (TCP Wrapper) and authentication (Interlink Networks AAA Basic RADIUS Server – binaries only), and tools to help keep your system from being attacked or exploited in a denial of service attack
  • Mail servers (sendmail, IMAP-4, POP3) and clients (Pine)
  • Mailing list management (Majordomo)
  • Mail filtering (procmail)
  • Web-based mail reader (Horde IMP)
  • News server (InterNetNews) and client (Tin)
  • Chat server (Internet Relay Chat)
  • Proxy/caching server (Squid) with log file analyzer (calamaris)
  • SOCKS proxy server (Dante)
  • Streaming Media Server (Darwin)
  • Service Location Protocol (SLP) server (OpenSLP)
  • Database Management System (PostgreSQL)
  • Web browser for character-cell terminals (Lynx)
  • FireScreen, a basic firewall
 
Administration software included with Internet Express Version 5.9:
  • Internet Express installation procedures using a terminal command-line or Web browser interface
  • Internet Express Administration utility (installed on port 8081), which allows you to perform the following tasks:
  • Register Internet Express on-line
  • Configure and control open source Internet software packaged with Internet Express, including adding and removing components
  • Configure and control the Secure Web Server
  • Configure and control the Internet Monitor
  • Add captive and system user accounts, and assign users' mail delivery
  • Configure the LDAP Module for System Authentication
  • Tune kernel attributes to improve performance of Internet services
  • Configure your system as a firewall. (A command-line script is also provided.)

Evaluation software included with Internet Express Version 5.9:

  • Instant ASP (iASP) from Halcyon Software
  • RAD-Series AAA RADIUS Server from Interlink Networks, Inc.
  • Apache 2.0.36 Early Adopters Kit
  • Tripwire for Servers
  • Communigate Pro messaging server software from Stalker, Inc.
  • Mozilla 1.0 RC2 Web Client for Tru64TM UNIX
  • Netscape 6.2.3 Web Client for Tru64TM UNIX
 
Administrative Functions
You can access the Internet Express Administration utility through a graphical Web browser. (NOTE: Certain features of the Administration utility and the installation procedure require your browser to be JavaScript enabled.) Links to the Internet Express for Tru64 UNIX Administration Guide (in HTML format) provide online help. The guide contains links to Web sites for each open source software component packaged with Internet Express and Web sites at HP that may interest Internet server administrators.

The Internet Express Administration utility allows a system administrator to easily perform the following component and system management tasks using a Web browser:

 
Manage Users
  • Add or remove user accounts, individually or based on group assignment
  • Modify the attributes of existing user accounts, including mail delivery
  • Display information for all users or a specific set of users
  • Change the password for a user or automatically generate passwords for a user or group of users
  • Enable and configure User Self-Administration (Delegated Administration)
 
Manage Components
  • Configure, manage, and test security for Internet components
  • Add or remove Internet components from your system
  • Install and configure FireScreen
  • Configure the Secure Web Server
  • Configure Ht://Dig Web search and indexing system
  • Configure the Apache/XML SOAP server and Cocoon
  • Configure the iPlanet Directory Server
  • Configure the OpenLDAP Directory Server
  • Configure the Darwin Streaming Media Server
  • Configure and manage World Wide Web (WWW) and administration servers
  • Configure and manage the Internet Monitor
  • Configure and control mail servers and the IMP Web-based mail reader
  • Establish an anonymous FTP account, and configure the FTP server
  • Configure the Samba File and Print Server for Windows
  • Configure the Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions
  • Manage the Squid Proxy/Caching Server
  • Configure and manage an InterNetNews (INN) server
  • Create and delete Majordomo mailing lists on a local system, and modify list parameters
  • Configure the LDAP Module for System Authentication
  • Tune the kernel for Internet services
 
End-User Functions
Internet Express captive accounts created with the Internet Express Administration utility provide access to a menu that offers several common applications, including the ability to:
  • Use the Pine mail client
  • Access the INN newsgroups
  • Use the Lynx Web browser
  • Define or change passwords for captive accounts
  • Access the online Internet Services User’s Guide, which describes these captive account capabilities

NOTE: Publicly accessible media like the Internet present a security risk if suitable precautions are not taken to ensure and enforce security.

 
Installation
Internet Express includes an installation procedure that simplifies the steps required to install and start up the Internet Express Administration utility and other Internet services on Tru64TM UNIX systems. The installer can choose either a Web browser or command-line interface. The Internet Express installation procedure prompts the installer for site-specific information, allows the installer to tune kernel subsystem attributes to improve performance, configures the system, and installs requested subsets. All subsets are optional, although some subsets depend on others.

All the selected open source Internet and administration software components included with the product are configured and available for use when the installation is complete. You can install Internet Express using a command-line script interface or a Web browser interface. When you run the installation procedure using a Web browser, links to the Internet Express for Tru64 UNIX Installation Guide (in HTML format) provide online help.

The installation procedure will update previous versions of Internet Express, preserving configurations and user data. Update installation from Internet Express Version 5.7 or Version 5.8 to Internet Express Version 5.9 is supported.

Please read the online Internet Express for Tru64 UNIX Read This First and Release Notes documents before installing the software. You can access these documents from the index.htm file on the Internet Express for Tru64TM UNIX Installation and Documentation CD-ROM.

 
Internet Monitor
Internet Express includes the Internet Monitor, a Quality of Service (QoS) tool developed by Tru64TM UNIX Engineering. System Administrators can use the Internet Monitor to monitor the performance of Internet servers. They can use the information collected by the Internet Monitor to make changes to their system and network configurations to improve performance of a particular Internet server. Administrators and end users can use the historical information collected by the Internet Monitor to check conformance of Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

The Internet Monitor is capable of monitoring the following Internet services:

  • HTTP and HTTPS
  • FTP
  • NNTP
  • SMTP
  • POP
  • IMAP
  • LDAP
  • DNS
  • RADIUS
  • Network connections to arbitrary ports

The Internet Monitor provides the following features:

  • Allows administrators to monitor the performance of Internet services running anywhere on the network
  • Data collection agents placed anywhere on the network poll Internet services and report performance data to the data collection server
  • Graphically monitors the performance of Internet services from the same perspective as an actual user of those services
  • Can generate alerts or cause other automated actions to be performed when administrator-defined performance thresholds are crossed
  • Collects and archives performance data and generates historical performance reports and graphs
  • May be used as the basis for ensuring conformance to Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
  • Provides a Web-based administration utility for configuring the Internet Monitor.
 
Directory Servers
The OpenLDAP Directory Server and the iPlanet Directory Server Version 4.15 are packaged with Internet Express. The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an Internet standard directory service protocol that runs over TCP/IP. It can be used to provide a standalone directory service or to provide lightweight access to an X.500 directory.

The iPlanet Directory Server provided with Internet Express is licensed for use with the Tru64TM UNIX operating system. The iPlanet Directory Server may be used as a general-purpose corporate directory or as the primary directory for products other than those distributed with Internet Express or the Tru64TM UNIX operating system. The only limitation is that it may only be used for up to 200,000 entries in the Directory Server.

 
LDAP Module for System Authentication
The LDAP Module for System Authentication allows user identification and authentication information stored in an LDAP server to be used for all applications, including the following:
  • Login authentication (rlogin, ftp, and telnet)
  • POP and IMAP authentication
  • Transparent LDAP database access for the getpw*() and getgr*() routines in the libc library

The iPlanet Directory Server or OpenLDAP Directory Server provided with Internet Express is automatically configured for use with the LDAP Module for System Authentication. The LDAP Module for System Authentication subset includes tools designed to query the LDAP server for user and group information based on a standard POSIX schema. You can choose the LDAP Module for System Authentication as an option during installation.

 
Web Server
Internet Express includes the Secure Web Server powered by Apache software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/). The Secure Web Server lets users create and manage a Web site on the Internet or Intranet.

The Secure Web Server includes SSL (Secure Socket Layer) capability that allows secure encrypted connections to Web browsers.

The Secure Web Server also includes:

  • PHP Hypertext Preprocessor module, a server-side, cross-platform HTML embedded scripting language that allows you to design dynamic Web pages
  • Jakarta Tomcat servlet module that allows the Web server to execute Java servlets in response to browser requests
  • Fast CGI, an open extension to CGI that provides high performance without the limitations of server-specific APIs
  • auth_ldap LDAP authentication module
  • Optional Microsoft FrontPage2000 Server Extensions
  • Analog, a tool for analyzing log files

A Web-based administration utility developed by Tru64TM UNIX Engineering for managing the Secure Web Server is also included.

 
Network Security
TCP Wrapper provides enhanced Internet security by letting the system administrator control access to certain Internet services, including telnet, FTP, remote shell, rlogin, remote execute, fingerd, talk, POP-2, POP-3, IMAP, or any other service started by the inetd daemon.

The Interlink Networks AAA Basic RADIUS Server supports standard Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) authorization. This server extends standard RADIUS authentication to a distributed authentication and authorization scheme. This server also functions as a proxy server that relays authentication and authorization requests to other RADIUS servers and receives and relays the responses.

Tools to configure network ingress and egress filtering are included, as well as tools to help prevent your system from being attacked or exploited in certain denial of service (DoS) attacks.

The Security and Network Analyzer Tool (SATAN) is also provided in the source-tar/ directory.

 
News Service
The InterNetNews Server (INN) and TIN news reader provide tools to manage newsfeed services, including connections to external newsfeeds, newsfeed configurations, and control of client access to newsgroups.
 
Proxy Servers
The Squid Proxy/Caching Server allows the user’s system to intelligently cache Web pages in a central location for quick and easy retrieval. The calamaris log file analyzer for Squid is also included.

Secure Computing's SmartFilter plug-in for Squid Proxy Server is included. SmartFilter is specialized URL (Universal Resource Locator) filtering software that administrators can configure inside their network to control access to external Internet resources.   SmartFilter allows administrators to restrict access to World Wide Web pages, newsgroups, and FTP sites. For more information about SmartFilter and how to obtain a subscription for the SmartFilter Control List, see www.smartfilter.com.

The Dante SOCKS Proxy Server is included.

 
Mail Servers
UW-IMAP, Qualcomm popper (POP2 and POP3), Cyrus IMAP, and sendmail servers offer secure, standards-based e-mail capability.
Majordomo automates the creation and maintenance of mailing lists.
Procmail allows users or administrators to create customized mail filters.
 
Mail Clients
The Horde IMP (Internet Mail Program) Web-based IMAP mail client allows users to access their IMAP mail folders using any graphical Web browser. The Internet Express Administration utility can be used to configure IMP.
The Pine mail client is also provided.
 
Chat Server and Client
The Internet Relay Chat Server allows users to communicate with each other, in real time, across a network of Internet servers.
  
FTP Server
Washington University File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Server (wu-ftp) is provided with Internet Express.
 
File and Print Server
The Samba File and Print Server for Windows is an open source software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS (for example, Microsoft Windows) clients.
 
Database Management System
PostgreSQL Relational Database Management System is included.
 
Streaming Media
The Darwin Streaming Server is included.
 
Web Services Tools
The following tools for providing Web Services and dynamic Web content are provided with Internet Express:
  • Ht://Dig Web indexing and search system
  • Perl
  • PHP
  • Tomcat Java Servlet engine from the Apache Jakarta Project
  • XML and Web Services Tools
  • SOAP Server
  • UDDI4J (UDDI Client Libraries in Java)
  • Xerces XML parsers for C++ and Java
  • Xalan Stylesheet processors for C++ and Java
  • Cocoon Web Publishing Framework
  • FOP Print Formatter
  • Batik scalable vector graphics
 
Service Location Protocol
The Service Location Protocol (SLP) provides client/server applications with the means to discover and select system services on the network. Internet Express provides the OpenSLP server and Application Program Interfaces (APIs) based on the SLP Version 2 standard.
 
BIND Domain Name System
The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) Version 9.2.0 from the Internet Software Consortium implements a domain name server for Tru64 UNIX.
 
Source Code Information
Source code is included for all the Internet Express open source software on the binary kit except for OpenSSL and Apache mod_ssl sources, which are not included due to export restrictions.
 
Hardware Requirements
Internet Express can run on any valid Tru64TM UNIX AlphaServerTM system having the minimum system configuration as described in the Tru64TM UNIX Operating System QuickSpecs. The actual amount of work supported at one time, with good performance, depends on the types of processing performed as well as the physical memory and secondary storage available.
 
Platforms and Processors Not Supported
Internet Express does not support OpenVMSTM, Windows NT, or any other hardware configurations outside of the Tru64TM UNIX hardware configurations.
 
Other Hardware Required
You need a network card to access the Internet.
 
Video Display Support
Internet Express supports a wide variety of display devices, including character cell terminals and X Window System display devices, Microsoft Windows client desktops, and Macintosh client desktops.
 
Memory Requirements
Internet Express requires a minimum of 128 MB of memory. Additional memory may also be required based on system loading.
 
Disk Space Requirements
Maximum required /usr file system disk space is approximately 500 MB for a full installation of all components (includes 121 MB for iPlanet Directory Server Version 4.15)
NOTE: This count refers to the disk space required on the system disk. The sizes are approximate; actual sizes may vary depending on the user's system environment, configuration, and software options. Additional disk space on other file systems will be required to create or expand component databases or create user files as components are used. A typical installation will include only selected components.
 
Software Requirements
Internet Express requires Tru64TM UNIX Version 5.0A or higher.
Java Development Kit (JDK) V1.2.2 or higher is required for the Internet Monitor, SOAP, and UDDI4J.
Some Internet Express components may require the use of other Internet Express components.
For more information, see the Installation Guide, available on line in HTML, PDF, and PostScript formats.
 
Network Support
Internet Express supports a variety of network protocols, topologies, and hardware interconnects, including TCP/IP as specified by the Tru64TM UNIX QuickSpecs.

For additional information about supported features, hardware models and revision levels, and required or optional software, see the Software Product Description or QuickSpecs for the product in question.

 
Software Licensing
Only the Internet Express Administration utility, FireScreen, LDAP Module for System Authentication, and the Internet Monitor are furnished under a license from Compaq Computer Corporation, a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Company. Tru64TM UNIX is licensed by Compaq Computer Corporation.

The iPlanet Directory Server provided with Internet Express is licensed for use with the Tru64TM UNIX operating system. The iPlanet Directory Server may be used as a general-purpose corporate directory or as the primary directory for products other than those distributed with Internet Express or the Tru64TM UNIX operating system. The only limitation is that it may only be used for up to 200,000 entries in the Directory Server.

All open source software included with Internet Express is licensed by the developers of the individual products. For more information on the licenses for these open source third-party products, please see the Software Description and Licensing Terms document included on the Internet Express Installation and Documentation CD-ROM.

For more information about Compaq licensing terms and policies, contact your local HP office or distributor.

NOTE: Open source software included in Internet Express is available for use under the terms and conditions of the original authors. Open source software is provided "as is." Compaq, HP, and each of their subsidiaries disclaim all warranties with regard to open source software, including all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness.

In no event shall Compaq, HP, or any of their subsidiaries be liable for any special, direct, indirect, or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data, or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence, or other tortious action, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of public software.

 
Growth Considerations
The minimum hardware and software requirements for any future version of this product may be different from the requirements for the current version.
 
Distribution Media and Documentation
Distribution media and documentation for Internet Express is distributed on two CD-ROMs. You can print the electronic documentation accompanying the software as reasonably necessary to exercise your license to use the software.
 
Ordering Information
Internet Express is included with all AlphaServerTM systems that ship with the Tru64TM UNIX operating system. Internet Express may also be purchased separately by ordering the following:

Software License/Media/Documentation: QB-3NCAA-SA
QB-3NCAA-SA contains the Internet Express License and Internet Express CD-ROMs, which contain the Internet Express software, sources, online documentation, and evaluation software.

 
Software Product Services
The following services are available for Internet Express for Tru64TM UNIX:

QT-3NCAA-XA – Packages Services (Includes new versions of the licensed software and an updated software license agreement for the new versions)
QT-3NCAA-TA – New Version License Subscription Service (Includes only an updated software license agreement for the new versions; however, this service does not include media and documentation)
For more information on these services and how to obtain them, customers within the United States should call 1-800-COMPAQ. All others should contact their local Hewlett-Packard Sales Representative.

 
Software Warranty
Warranty for Compaq developed software is provided by Compaq Computer Corporation with the purchase of a license for the product as defined in the applicable Compaq Standard Terms and Conditions.

Open source software is provided "as is." Compaq, HP, and each of their subsidiaries disclaim all warranties with regard to open source software, including all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness.

In no event shall Compaq, HP, or any of their subsidiaries be liable for any special, direct, indirect, or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data, or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence, or other tortious action, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of open source software.

This information is valid at time of release. Please contact your local HP office or distributor for the most up-to-date information.

 
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