OS4X Portal - shared storage

Storage for portal jobs are typically provided by the DMZ, making communication possible from the internal zone to the DMZ. The shared storage saves the following information:

• Outgoing portal jobs (from internal to DMZ)
  • outgoing job data
• Incoming portal jobs
  • incoming job data
  • incoming job XML information

The storage can be located anywhere in the DMZ, offering a wide range of protocols usable to be implemented, such as:

• NFS (most common, see example below)
• CIFS
• SSHFS
• others

NFS example

On OS4X portal server side (DMZ), export a directory. Configuration file:

/etc/exports

Content (example):

/nfs 192.168.2.1(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check)

Activate export on DMZ side:

exportfs -a

Configure shared storage (DMZ)

The path of the shared folder has to be defined in "Configuration" -> "OS4X Enterprise" -> "Portals" -> "Base directory for portal":