All administration of OctaGate Switch™ is done through a password protected web interface. You can remotely administer your OctaGate Switch™ server - no matter where you are!
Selective IP Binding
If you have several network cards and/or IP addresses, on your computer, you can select which of them OctaGate Switch™ will respond on. For example, you might want to bind port 85 on one internal IP number, and port 80 on another internal IP number.
Multiple Domains
OctaGate Switch™ can be configured to handle a wide number of domains. Different Licenses allow different number of domains.
Virtual paths
Each domain can have several virtual paths that can be connected to other servers than the main server for the domain. This way, you can, per path and/or document, determine which server should handle a request. Different licenses allow different numbers of virtual paths.
Virtual domains
A domain is typically of the form "www.MYDOMAIN.com", but you may also want to route all incoming requests for "MYDOMAIN.com" or "web.MYDOMAIN.com" to the same server. This is what we call a virtual domain. Different licenses allow different numbers of virtual domains.
Server Clusters - for load balancing
If you want to use OctaGate Switch™ Load Balancing (only available in OctaGate Switch™Enterprise Edition), you will need to define one more more Server Clusters. A server cluster is a set of clusters that together will be responsible for handling requests.
Banning IP numbers
It's important to be able to ban certain IP numbers, permanently banning offenders or potential offenders. OctaGate Switch™ allows you to create a list of IP numbers that are to be banned for all domains. The Advanced and Enterprise Licenses will also allow you to ban on a per domain level.