Common Secure Interoperability transport inbound settings: WebSphere Application Server

Use this page to specify which listener ports to open and which Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) settings to use. These specifications determine which transport a client or upstream server uses to communicate with this server for incoming requests.

To view this administrative console page, click Security > Authentication Protocol > CSI Inbound Transport.

Configuration tab

Transport

Specifies whether client processes connect to the server using one of its connected transports.

You can choose to use either Secure Socket Layer (SSL), TCP/IP or both as the inbound transport that a server supports. If you specify TCP/IP, the server only supports TCP/IP and cannot accept SSL connections. If you specify SSL Supported, this server can support either TCP/IP or SSL connections. If you specify SSL-Required, then any server communicating with this one must use SSL.

If you specify SSL-Supported or SSL-Required, decide which set of SSL configuration settings you want to use for the inbound configuration. This decision determines which key file and trust file are used for inbound connections to this server.

By default, SSL ports for Common Secure Interoperability Version 2 (CSIv2) and Security Authentication Service (SAS) are dynamically generated. In cases where you need to fix the SSL ports on application servers, click Servers > Application Servers > server_name > End Points. Configure the following ports to be fixed. A zero port number indicates that a dynamic assignment is made at run time.

CSIV2_SSL_MUTUALAUTH_LISTENER_ADDRESS 
CSIV2_SSL_SERVERAUTH_LISTENER_ADDRESS 
SAS_SSL_SERVERAUTH_LISTENER_ADDRESS

TCP/IP: Only a TCP/IP listener port is opened and all requests inbound do not have SSL protection.

SSL-Supported: Both a TCP/IP and SSL listener port are opened and most requests come inbound by way of SSL.

SSL-Required: Only an SSL listener port is opened, and all requests come through SSL connections. If you choose SSL-Required, also choose CSI as the active authentication protocol. If you choose CSI and SAS, SAS requires an open TCP/IP socket for some special requests.

Default:	SSL-Supported
Range:	TCP/IP, SSL Required, SSL-Supported

SSL settings

Specifies a list of predefined SSL settings to choose from for inbound connections. These settings are configured at the SSL Repertoire panel.

Data type:	String
Default:	DefaultSSLSettings
Range:	Any SSL settings configured in the SSL Configuration Repertoire