Kevin wrote:
The configure options above use the literal string, "online_node", and below in section 4.2.2 (Offline Components) the literal string "offline_node". If a node is a management interface, can the string be any arbitary string in this "--with-node-prefix" configure option? Or must it match the hostname of the computer or some other parameter? How are these node-prefixes used later by the software?
You can use any name at this position but please do not use any special characters like blanks etc.. We use this value as name for directories and configurationfiles (e.g. etc/servers/offline_node.conf or lib/servers/offline_node/).
If I install everything on one server computer, is the node-prefix "online_node" (as used in the configure step above) associated with a TCP port or a unix domain socket that is open on the computer (and perhaps another TCP port or socket for the string "offline_node") (this is what I think of when I read, "interface") or is it just a hyperlink by the name of "online_node" in a web page generated by the software for doing management/data exchange tasks with a browser or what?
The second is correct.
If the node-prefix can be any arbitrary string, is there a typical value that is used for it? Are the strings "online_node" and "offline-node" ok for that?
Yes.
Do these strings become part of the certificates issued by OpenCA?
No.
I hope the short answers are ok :)
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