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Web Browser Clients
The SurfStatsLive Web Browser Clients are the clients that interact with the
SurfStatsLive Reporting Service through the Virtual Web Server that is configured
to interact with the SurfStatsLive Reporting Service. These clients are Server
Administrators, Profile Administrators and SurfStatsLive Users. The roles of these
clients are described extensively elsewhere in this guide.
Client Applications
Client Applications include the Global Setup Application.
The Global Setup Application communicates with the Global Configuration
Component and the Authentication Component to configure global setup
parameters required by the SurfStatsLive Reporting Service. These include
parameters like the User Authentication String, the Virtual Web Server to be used
by the SurfStatsLive Reporting Service, the location of the SurfStatsLive
Installation folder etc. The Global Setup application is a 32-bit Windows
application that is run directly after installation of the SurfStatsLive Reporting
Service. It can also be accessed (on the server running SurfStatsLive) from Start
– Programs – SurfStatsLive – SurfStatsLive Global.
IIS
The Internet Information Server (IIS) is a Microsoft Windows component that
runs one or more Virtual Web Servers. One of the Virtual Web Servers handles
web requests to the SurfStatsLive Reporting Service. The other Virtual Web
Servers handles requests from web clients in a normal web browser – web server
fashion, which forms the normal operations on the web server. The Virtual Web
Servers (including the Virtual Web Server used by the SurfStatsLive Reporting
Service) logs requests, to the Virtual Web Servers’ log files. Each Virtual Web
Server has its own set of log files that it logs to.
The SurfStatsLive Web Browser Clients (Server Administrators, Profile
Administrators and SurfStatsLive Users) access Active Server Pages (ASP) on the
SurfStatsLive Reporting Service’s Virtual Web Server. ASP is a Microsoft
technology that allows processing of web requests from web browser clients. The
web server processes these ASP pages to produce some kind of a result, which is
normally sent back to the web browser that initiated the request. When a Virtual
Web Server gets configured a user context is configured for the Virtual Web
Server to run under when it needs to use resources managed by the Operating
System. By default the name of this user is IUSR_<ComputerName>, which is a
user that is normally configured to have restricted rights due to security reasons.
The Virtual Web Server impersonates this user when executing requests from web
browser clients.