This manual explains how to configure and maintain the Netscape Collabra Server.
For information about installing the Netscape Collabra Server, see the Netscape Collabra Server Installation Guide for your platform.
Introduction
About this guide
Product names and terminology
Product names
Terminology
Conventions used in this book
Contacting Technical Support
Chapter 1 Overview of the Collabra Server
Introduction
Features of the Collabra Server
Support for standard protocols
Creation and management of discussion groups
Searching across discussion groups
Access control
Security
Discussion group replication
Planning your Collabra Server
Choosing your directory service
Installing the Collabra Server
Determining your access control and security requirements
Managing users and user groups
Planning and creating discussion groups
Planning your replication sites
Maintaining your server
About Usenet newsgroups
Chapter 2 Specifying server preferences
Starting and stopping the server
Activating connection security
Disabling connection security
Specifying search options
Specifying directory service information
Controlling connections to your server
Specifying SNMP configuration
Managing SNMP subagent status (Unix only)
Specifying technical settings
Specifying background tasks
Specifying limits
Specifying organization name
Changing the port number
Changing the spool directory location
Specifying a message of the day
Chapter 3 Controlling access to your server
Determining your access control requirements
Understanding authentication and access control
Methods of authentication
Levels of access control
Choosing a server model
Public servers
Private servers
Host-restricted servers
Semi-public servers
Defining your tasks
Enabling access control
Limiting host connections
Managing users and user groups
Managing roles
Viewing currently defined roles
Defining a new role
Updating an existing role
Understanding permissions
Understanding the predefined roles
Manager
Poster
Reader
Specifying access control rules
Delegating discussion group management tasks
Disabling access control
Choosing your directory service
Chapter 4 Managing discussion groups
Viewing information about a discussion group
Creating a discussion group
Naming your discussion groups
Controlling access to a discussion group
Delegating management tasks
Viewing access control for a discussion group
Specifying access to a discussion group
Specifying users and groups
Specifying roles
Understanding inheritance
Specifying a continued or absolute rule
Understanding authentication
Understanding access control for a virtual discussion group
Deleting an access control rule
Modifying access to a discussion group
Removing a discussion group
Modifying attributes of a discussion group
Moderating a discussion group
How to post moderated articles
If access control is enabled
For more information
Importing discussion groups
Specifying indexing information
Editing an indexer
Removing an indexer
Chapter 5 Managing replication of articles
Understanding discussion group replication
Access control and security
Access control
Security
Control articles
Planning your discussion group replication
Viewing information about replication
Configuring a replication host
Editing default replication settings
Removing a replication host
Resending articles
Handling control articles
Chapter 6 Understanding security
Understanding the need for security
Understanding the features of SSL
Encryption
Authentication by certificate
Server certificates
Client certificates
Enabling SSL on your server
Running a server in secure connection mode
URL construction
Article storage
Replication with other news servers
Increasing server security
Limit physical access
Enable access control
Limit administration access
Choose good passwords
Protect your private key
Limit applications
Limit ports
Use firewalls
Chapter 7 Generating and viewing reports
Viewing the daily report
Viewing and interpreting log files
The server log
The discussion replication log
Viewing and interpreting statistics
Discussion group replication
Incoming discussion groups
Outgoing discussion groups
How to interpret the statistics
All articles posted to the server
Posts and crossposts
Information you can view
How to interpret the statistics
User connections
User posts
User reads
Viewing and interpreting disk usage
Specifying logging preferences
Specifying an address for mail notices
Chapter 8 Maintaining your Collabra Server
Managing expiration of articles
Viewing expiration policies
Editing the default expiration policy
Creating a custom expiration policy
Modifying a custom expiration policy
Removing a custom expiration policy
The history file
Specifying recovery tasks
Running news.daily
Running expire
Recovering the active file
Renumbering the active file
Remaking the active file
Recovering the history file
Rebuilding the history indexes
Updating the history file
Remaking the history file
Remaking the search indexes
Using process feeds
Viewing information about process feeds
Creating a process feed
Editing process feed settings
Disabling a process feed
Removing a process feed
Cancelling articles
Using the ctlinnd utility
Setting up for Windows NT systems
Setting up for Unix systems
Running ctlinnd
ctlinnd commands
cancel
go
import
mode
newgroup
pause
reload
renumber
rmgroup
shutdown
throttle
Using ctlinnd on scripts and programs
Troubleshooting ctlinnd
Appendix A Server configuration files
The ns-admin.conf file
The control.ctl file
The dblist.ini file
The distrib.pats file
The expire.ctl file
Expiring the history list
Expiring articles
The extensions file
The gateways file
The hosts.nntp file
The inn.conf file
The moderators file
The motd file
The newsfeeds file
The newsgroups file
The newstime.conf file
The nnrp.access file
The nntpsend.ctl file
The nsnews.conf file
The overview.fmt file
The passwd.nntp file
The prettynames file
The searches file
The snmp.conf file
The srchheaders file
The subscriptions file
The system.ini file
The version file