Using Web Access Management
Web Access Management allows your organization to use the Innovative Web server to forward requests to a remote server (e.g., a subscription database). Your organization can use Web Access Management to:
- Allow users who connect to your catalog from home to access subscription databases.
- Control access to restricted databases by any combination of the following:
- Assigning a Service Level to the login using Limit NETWORK access
A Service level is a number from 0 to 9 that a patron, terminal, or login must have to access a system function. If the login used by a patron has a Service Level that is lower than the action's Service Level, the system will not perform the action when the user requests it. To set functionality to be accessible by all users, set the Service Level to 0. - Designating a patron type (PTYPE) as restricted
- Requiring patron verification
- Restricting expired patron records from accessing Web Access Management (contact Innovative for setup). Once set up, service blocking is controlled by Automatic patron BLOCKS.
- Configuring your Forward table
- Assigning a Service Level to the login using Limit NETWORK access
Support for HTTP 1.1
Web Access Management supports HTTP 1.1 protocol and standards. You can customize the HTTP 1.1 methods and headers your system uses in Web Access Management with the wamconfig.txt file.
Statistics on forwarded requests are logged (e.g., the date and time of a forwarded request, the server to which a request was forwarded, and patron type). You can view these statistics in the Forwarding Service Web report.
Use
Web Access Management is designed to enable your organization to support patrons who access your catalog from their home or office. You can also use Web Access Management to forward requests from public access Web browsers not on-site. For example, browsers in an on-campus computer lab or a city government office can use these remote services or databases via Web Access Management.
Once users are allowed access to a service (e.g., the user enters a valid patron name and barcode), the Web server maintains a ten-minute timeout for that particular client. Any additional requests to the same remote server will not require re-verification as long as they are made within this ten minute timeout period. Local browser settings may also affect timeouts and the caching of access permissions. For remote connections that do not use the Innovative proxy server, a patron's access privileges will also expire if the browser software is shut down.
Details on Web Access Management are found on the following pages:
- How Web Access Management Works
- Web Access Management Syntax
- Web Access Management and Patron Verification
- Editing the Forward Table
- Downloading Web Access Management Statistics
- Multiple IP Support for Web Access Management
- Configuring the webproxy2.patterns File
- Configuring the webproxy.request.patterns File