If your network uses a web proxy, you can set up the Edge Encryption proxy to use the web proxy.

Before you begin

Role required: admin

About this task

If your network does not use a web proxy, leave the web proxy properties in the configuration file commented out.

The Edge Encryption proxy server supports HTTP connection to and basic authentication with the web proxy.

Procedure

  1. Change to the <installation directory>/conf/ directory.
  2. Open the edgeencryption.properties file.
  3. Configure the web proxy properties.
  4. Save and close the edgeencryption.properties file.
  5. If the web proxy is using a customer-specific server certificate, add this certificate to the JVM used by the Edge Encryption proxy server to establish trust between the web proxy and the Edge Encryption proxy server.
    1. Use the cd command to navigate to <Java home directory>/jre/lib/security/cacerts
    2. Execute the command: keytool -keystore cacerts -importcert -alias <chooseAlias> -file <certificateFile>