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Configure the Agent for SharePoint for Web Applications That Use NTLM Authentication

If the web server uses a connection-oriented authentication scheme, configure a connection-oriented connection pool for secure forward request processing.

Important! We highly recommend that you do not configure a connection-oriented connection pool.

Follow these steps:

1. Verify that the value for the JK environment variable REMOTE_PORT is set in the httpd.conf file.
2. Open server.conf and add the following lines in <Service name="forward"> section:

   # Pool configuraiton for connection oriented authentication backend
   

   # connections eg: NTLM.
   <connection-pool name="connection oriented authentication">
   connection-timeout="connection_timeout_value" 
   max-size="maximum_connections"
   enabled="yes|no"
   

   </connection-pool>  
   

   connection_timeout_value

   Defines the time in seconds the connection times out. We recommend that you set a lower value.

   Default: 5

   maximum_connections

   Defines the number of connections in the connection pool.

   Default: 50

   yes|no

   Specifies the status of the connection-oriented connection pools. Set the value to yes to enable the connection-oriented connection pools.

   Default: yes

3. Open proxyrules.xml and add the connection-auth attribute to the forward rule.

   Example: <nete:forward connection-auth="yes">hostname:port$1</nete:forward>