External and Internal websites?

Jason_Meyer

Does the Cireson support portal support having External and Internal websites?   I am thinking I want to publish our User access to the Public Internet and our Analyst access only to our internal Intranet.

Thoughts?

Geoff_Ross

Jason,

IT depends. What is your motivation? Security or process? You could ask some custom JavaScript to stop Analyst access on a particular Portal instance but being client side scripting it wouldn't be 100% foolproof.

If you are happy for Analysts to log in but not be able to perform Analysts tasks you could not add your Analyst Portal licence to the external facing server. 

Any of these ideas any good?

Joe_Burrows

Hi Jason

It does, depending on your network topology - ideally you would just install the portal on a VM in your Front end zone / DMZ with forms authentication that points at your backend SQL and SCSM Management Servers with the appropriate firewall rules.

Just make sure you are only running the cache builder on your internal zone and have it disabled \ not installed on the front end.

Cheers
Joe

Jason_Meyer

Is there any documentation on providing only the USER accessible items?  What can I setup to prevent analysts from logging in via the Internet?

Geoff_Ross

Jason,

IT depends. What is your motivation? Security or process? You could ask some custom JavaScript to stop Analyst access on a particular Portal instance but being client side scripting it wouldn't be 100% foolproof.

If you are happy for Analysts to log in but not be able to perform Analysts tasks you could not add your Analyst Portal licence to the external facing server. 

Any of these ideas any good?