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SafeLinx Administrator
The SafeLinx Administrator is a Java application that lets administrators configure, monitor, and maintain the resources of one or more SafeLinx Servers.
Customizing network configuration
SafeLinx lets you customize your network configuration.
Configuring HTTP codec
You can add an HTTP codec and configure its properties.

SafeLinx Administrator
The SafeLinx Administrator is a Java application that lets administrators configure, monitor, and maintain the resources of one or more SafeLinx Servers.
- Controlling resources and organizational units
  SafeLinx gives you control over all resources and organizational units.
- Customizing network configuration
  SafeLinx lets you customize your network configuration.
  - Setting up a broadcast group
    You can define a group of users to which to broadcast a message.
  - Sending broadcast messages
    You can send a text message to all active users on a SafeLinx Server through broadcast messages.
  - Adding a network connection
    A mobile network connection (MNC) is the interface to a network provider.
  - Configuring intelligent connections
    You can configure the SafeLinx Server and SafeLinx Clients on Linux, Windows, or Windows CE to determine which protocol with which to connect to an Internet Protocol (IP) transport.
  - Configuring TCP-Lite
    A TCP-Lite transport is applied to a transport profile, which is a set of configuration properties that are applied to a connection profile. They are then applied to an MNC to control the performance options between an MNC and the SafeLinx Clients that connect to it.
  - Configuring HTTP codec
    You can add an HTTP codec and configure its properties.
  - Looking up users in another directory service
    You can store user account data in the same directory server (DSS) as all other SafeLinx Server resources, or you can choose to look up or manage user account data in a separate enterprise directory service. If you choose to look up data in an enterprise directory service, you must first create a directory server resource for each enterprise directory service you want to use.
  - Setting up IP addressing
    When you define a mobile network interface (MNI) and choose for IP traffic to be routed statically rather than using a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server, you set up a subnetwork.
  - Setting up network address translation
    To set up the SafeLinx Server to act as an agent between a public network and a private network and perform network address translation, add a network address translator (NAT).
  - Filtering incoming and outgoing data
    You can create filters to be associated with a mobile network interface (MNI) to control data access to and from all IP-attached clients.
  - Redirecting packets to and from SafeLinx Server
    Packet mapping is a way to redirect data through a mobile network interface (MNI).
  - Routing traffic to a subnetwork
    A routing alias is a SafeLinx Client acting as a multihomed destination gateway to route data between the SafeLinx Server and a subnetwork that you specify.
- Configuring for security
  SafeLinx includes options for configuring security.
- Managing administrators
  SafeLinx provides the tools to manage administrators.
- Managing users
  SafeLinx provides the tools to manage users.
- Troubleshooting problems
  SafeLinx helps you troubleshoot problems.
- What is...
  SafeLinx Administrator Help identifies and clarifies necessary topics.

Configuring HTTP codec

You can add an HTTP codec and configure its properties.

About this task

The headers that are removed or encoded by an HTTP codec are configured on the HTTP tab of an HTTP codec. To view the configuration properties, in the Resources pane, double-click the TCP-Lite service. Then, double-click the HTTP codec from the combined list of TCP-Lite and HTTP codec services. Complete the following procedure to add an HTTP codec.

Procedure

From the Resources pane, right-click the OU in which you want to add an HTTP codec, and then click Add Resource > TCP-Lite > HTTP codec.
Review the default values and determine:

The TCP-Lite transport property values to be used
If the Host token is processed in request headers. Choose from these options in which the HTTP codec:
- Removes the header if it exactly matches what is specified and encodes headers that do not match
- Removes the header if it exactly matches what is specified and returns an HTTP status code 403 to the requester for headers that do not match
- Removes the Host token in all requests headers sent from the SafeLinx Client, then replaces it with a different Host token at the SafeLinx Server to pass the request on
If the uniform resource identifier (URI) is processed in request headers. Choose from these options in which the HTTP codec:
- Removes the URI if it exactly matches what is specified and passes URIs that do not match
- Removes only the portion of the URI that matches the value of the URI field specified. When the request header is received at the SafeLinx Server, the HTTP codec adds the prefix value onto the beginning of the URI field before it passes the request on.
Which HTTP header tokens, which are encoded and transmitted. Tokens that are not selected are removed from the header.
Whether undefined tokens are transmitted or not.

Assign the codec to a connection profile. In the Resources pane, double-click the connection profile. From the list of profiles, click the profile that you want to update, and click Properties. On the TCP-Lite tab, from the TCP-Lite service list, select the service that you want to assign.
After you assign the codec to connection profile, assign the profile to an MNC. From the Resources pane, right-click the MNC, and then click Properties. Click the Network tab, then select a connection profile from the list.

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