HTTP (Web Server) Configuration
The PA Storage Monitor 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.
- HTTP Port for Reports and Commands - this setting lets you set the port which the embedded web server uses to listen for requests. The web server may be entirely disabled by setting this value to 0, which will stop the Console from using certain functionality (Bulk Config for example). Port 80 is generally used by IIS and Apache as the standard HTTP port for a web server. PA Storage Monitor 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.
- Report Serving - you can determine how PA Storage Monitor 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 Storage Monitor 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".
- Command Processing - this setting determines whether PA Storage Monitor responds to commands that are issued by the Console part of PA Storage Monitor. You may disable command processing entirely. Or, you may enable command processing, but only from the machine on which PA Storage Monitor is installed. The default setting is "Process commands only from this machine."