BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Guide

Typical firewall scenarios

If all users of your BusinessObjects Enterprise system are on your internal network, there is no need to perform any special configuration of your firewalls or of BusinessObjects Enterprise. Simply place all BusinessObjects Enterprise components on computers inside your firewall.

However, if you need to provide access to BusinessObjects Enterprise to external users, you must consider where to place each BusinessObjects Enterprise component, and how to configure both BusinessObjects Enterprise and your firewalls in order to provide this access.

This section outlines the following common firewall scenarios:

• Application tier separated from the CMS by a firewall
• Thick client separated from the CMS by a firewall

These scenarios are general cases: once you understand the firewalling issues involved, you should be able to support BusinessObjects Enterprise in wide variety of contexts.