This help page is for version 3.7. The latest available help is for version 9.4.
HTTP (Web Server) Configuration
The PA File Sight service contains an embedded web server for serving HTML reports to the Console and to browsers, as
well has handling some configuration requests from the Console. This embedded web server does NOT use or require IIS, and it can run
on the same server as IIS or other web servers since it uses a different port than IIS generally uses.
The options available for controlling the built in web server are as follows.
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HTTP Port for Reports and Commands
This setting lets you set the port which the embedded web server uses to listen for requests.
Port 80 is generally used by IIS and Apache as the standard HTTP port for a web server. PA File Sight chooses a different port so it
doesn't conflict. If you have another application that is already using this different port, you can easily change the port to another number.
- Use SSL
PA File Sight supports using HTTPS for all communication to the service, which includes viewing reports, and Console-to-service communication.
Self-signed digital certificates are used. This means most browsers will display a warning even though the HTTPS network traffic is encrypted.
To fix the warning in the browser, follow
the instructions on SSL Certificate Hints.
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Report Serving
You can determine how PA File Sight serves reports. There are four options.
You can disable all report serving. You can enable serving of reports but only to the same machine on which
PA File Sight is installed. You can serve reports only to a set of other users, identified by
the IP addresses of their computers. Or, you can serve reports to any other computer that requests reports. The default
setting is "Serve reports to everyone".
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Command Processing
This setting determines whether PA File Sight responds to commands that are issued
by the Console part of PA File Sight. You may disable command processing entirely.
Or, you may enable command processing, but only from the machine on which PA File Sight is installed. The
default setting is "Process commands only from this machine."
Currently, the only case where commands are sent from a remote machine is if a user is viewing the Visual Status Map report in a browser
on a separate machine.