System and method for an administration server

Claim 2

Method for serving administration and configuration pages to a web browser, comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of instances of servers on a single host system; and one of said servers being an administration server including a hardened configuration file which is not alterable by way of configuration or administration forms by storing administration and configuration directives in a plurality of files including a read-write configuration file member and serving to said web brower contents of said read-only configuration file member before serving contents of said read-write configuration file.

Claim 3

A server system, comprising: a first server instance; a second server instance; said first server instance and said second server instance being resident on a single host system; said first server instance including a first configuration file; and said second server instance being an administration server including a second configuration file, said second configuration file being a hardened file not alterable by way of configuration or administration forms by storing administration and configuration directives in a plurality of files including a read-write configuration file member and a read-only configuration file member and serving to said web browser contents of said read-only configuration file member before serving contents of said read-write configuration file.

Claim 4

A server system, comprising: a first server instance; a second server instance; said first server instance and said second server instance being resident on a single host system; said first server instance including a first configuration file; and said second server instance being an administration server including a second configuration file, said second configuration file being a hardened file not alterable by way of configuration or administration forms by storing administration and configuration directives in a plurality of files including a read-write configuration file member and a read-only configuration file member and serving to said web browser contents of said read-only configuration file member before serving contents of said read-write configuration file.

Claim 5

A server system, comprising: an administration server instance; a global attributes file having one member used by all server instances on a single host server system; one or more configuration files, with each server on said single host server system using a particular configuration file member; one or more instance files, with a unique instance file member for each server instance on said single host server system; contents of said instance file overriding the contents of said configuration file, and contents of said confifuration file overriding contents of said global attributes file; and a configuration file for said administration server instance on said single host server system being a hardened file not alterable by way of configuration or adminstration forms by storing administration and configuration directives in a plurality of files including a read-write configuration file member and a read-only configuration file member and serving contents of said read-only configuration file member before serving contents of said read-write configuration file.

Claim 6

A server system, comprising: an administration server instance; a global attributes file having one member used by all server instances on a single host server system; one or more configuration files, with each server on said single host server system using a particular configuration file member; one or more instance files, with a unique instance file member for each server instance on said single host server system; contents of said instance file overriding the contents of said configuration file, and contents of said confifuration file overriding contents of said global attributes file; and a configuration file for said administration server instance on said single host server system being a hardened file not alterable by way of configuration or adminstration forms by storing administration and configuration directives in a plurality of files including a read-write configuration file member and a read-only configuration file member and serving contents of said read-only configuration file member before serving contents of said read-write configuration file.

Claim 7

The server system of claim 3 , further comprising: a browser; said administration server being operable to serve pages to said browser for configuring and managing browser configurable products; said configuration file for said administration server instance restricting usage of said administration server instance to authorized individuals; and said read-only configuration file member being hardened against alteration by any of said pages.

Claim 8

The server system of claim 4 , said read-only configuration file member comprising protect, map, pass, and exec directives which cannot be overridden by directives in said read-write configuration file member.

Claim 9

The server system of claim 5 , the instance file for said administration file member comprising selected directives, including an autostart directive, which may override directives in said read-only configuration file.

Claim 10

The server system of claim 6 , said instance file further including number of server jobs, coded character set identifier, server mapping tables, access log file name, error log file name, non-secure port, and secure port directives which may override corresponding directives in said read-only configuration file member.

Claim 11

The server system of claim 7 , said global attributes file comprising autostart, minjob, maxjob, ccsid, out ccsid, and in ccsid directives.

Claim 12

A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform method steps for serving administration and configuration pages to a web browser, said method steps comprising: providing a plurality of instances of servers on a single host system; and one of said servers being an administration server including a configuration file which is not alterable by way of configuration file which is not alterable by way of configuration or administration forms by storing administration and configuration directives in a plurality of files including a read-write configuration file member and a read-only configuration file member and serving to said web browser contents of said read-only condiguration file member before serving contents of said read-write configuration file.

Claim 13

A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform method steps for serving administration and configuration pages to a web browser, said method steps comprising: providing a plurality of instances of servers on a single host system; and one of said servers being an administration server including a configuration file which is not alterable by way of configuration file which is not alterable by way of configuration or administration forms by storing administration and configuration directives in a plurality of files including a read-write configuration file member and a read-only configuration file member and serving to said web browser contents of said read-only condiguration file member before serving contents of said read-write configuration file.

Claim 14

An article of manufacture comprising: a computer usable medium having computer readable program code means embodied therein for serving administration and configuration pages to a web browser, the computer readable program means in said article of manufacture comprising: computer readable program code means for causing a computer toeffect providing a plurality of instances of servers on a single host system, one of said servers being an administration server; and computer readable program code for causing a computer to effect providing for said administration server a configuration file which is not alterable by way of configuration or administration forms by storing administration and configuration directives in a plurality of files including a read-write configuration file member and a read-only configuratio file member and serving to said web browser contents of said read-only configuration file member befor serving contents of said read-write configuration file.

Claim 15

An article of manufacture comprising: a computer usable medium having computer readable program code means embodied therein for serving administration and configuration pages to a web browser, the computer readable program means in said article of manufacture comprising: computer readable program code means for causing a computer toeffect providing a plurality of instances of servers on a single host system, one of said servers being an administration server; and computer readable program code for causing a computer to effect providing for said administration server a configuration file which is not alterable by way of configuration or administration forms by storing administration and configuration directives in a plurality of files including a read-write configuration file member and a read-only configuratio file member and serving to said web browser contents of said read-only configuration file member befor serving contents of said read-write configuration file.

Claim 16

Method for serving administration and configuration pages to a web browser, comprising the steps of: storing administration and configuration directives in a plurality of files, said files including a global attributes file, a read-write configuration file member, a read-only configuration file member, and an instance file; serving to said web browser the contents of said read-only configuration file member before serving the contents of said read-write configuration file member; and using a first encountered directive for controlling a selected web activity; whereby a directive for a particular web activity stored in said read-write configuration file member cannot override a corresponding directive stored in said read-only configuration file member.

Claim 17

Method for serving administration and configuration pages to a web browser, comprising the steps of: storing administration and configuration directives in a plurality of files, said files including a global attributes file, a read-write configuration file member, a read-only configuration file member, and an instance file; serving to said web browser the contents of said read-only configuration file member before serving the contents of said read-write configuration file member; and using a first encountered directive for controlling a selected web activity; whereby a directive for a particular web activity stored in said read-write configuration file member cannot override a corresponding directive stored in said read-only configuration file member.

Claim 18

A server system, comprising: an administration server instance; a global attributes file having one member used by all server instances on said server system; one or more configuration files, with each server on said server system using a particular configuration file member; one or more instance files, with unique instance file member for each server instance on said server system; the contents of said instance file overriding the contents of said configuration file, and the contents of said configuratio file overriding the contents of said global attributes file; the configuration file for said administration server instance including a read-only member and a read-write member; a browser; said administration server being operable to serve pages to said browser for configuring and managing browser configurable products; said configuration file for said administration server instance restricting usage of said administration server instance to authorized individuals; said read-only configuration file member being hardened against alteration by any of said pages; and said read-only configuration file member comprising protect, map, pass, and exec directives which cannot be overridden by directives in said read-write congfiguration file member.

Claim 19

A server system, comprising: an administration server instance; a global attributes file having one member used by all server instances on said server system; one or more configuration files, with each server on said server system using a particular configuration file member; one or more instance files, with unique instance file member for each server instance on said server system; the contents of said instance file overriding the contents of said configuration file, and the contents of said configuratio file overriding the contents of said global attributes file; the configuration file for said administration server instance including a read-only member and a read-write member; a browser; said administration server being operable to serve pages to said browser for configuring and managing browser configurable products; said configuration file for said administration server instance restricting usage of said administration server instance to authorized individuals; said read-only configuration file member being hardened against alteration by any of said pages; and said read-only configuration file member comprising protect, map, pass, and exec directives which cannot be overridden by directives in said read-write congfiguration file member.

Claim 20

The server system of claim 12 , the instance file for said administration file member comprising selected directives, including an autostart directive, which may override directives in said read-only configuration file.

Claim 21

The server system of claim 13 , said instance file further including number of server jobs, coded character set idenitfier, server mapping tables, access log file name, error log file name, non-secure port, and secure port directives which may override corresponding directives in said read-only configuration file member.

Claim 22

The server system of claim 14 , said global attributes file comprising autostart, minjob, maxjob, ccsid, out ccsid, and in ccsid dirctives.