BlueZone Web-to-Host introduction

Welcome to the BlueZone Web-to-Host Administrator Guide. This guide contains information on installing and administering BlueZone Web-to-Host and the BlueZone Web-to-Host Wizard.

BlueZone Web-to-Host is a state-of-the-art secure host access solution that utilizes the convenience of a web browser to automatically install, configure, update, and maintain your users’ host emulation software.

This is accomplished by storing the necessary BlueZone Web-to-Host files on a web server that can be accessed from the user's browser. An optional Web-to-Host Wizard is provided to guide you through the process of creating and customizing web pages that are used to start the BlueZone emulation clients.

BlueZone emulation clients include:
  • BlueZone IBM 3270 Display emulator
  • BlueZone IBM 3270 Printer emulator
  • BlueZone IBM 5250 Display emulator
  • BlueZone IBM 5250 Printer emulator
  • BlueZone VT - VT100, VT220, VT320, VT420 emulator
  • BlueZone Secure FTP Client
  • BlueZone 6530 Display emulator *
  • BlueZone Unisys T27 Display emulator *
  • BlueZone Unisys UTS Display emulator *
* Available at an additional cost

BlueZone Web-to-Host can be served up from virtually any web server regardless of operating system platform.

BlueZone Web-to-Host consists of two major components:
  • Web-to-Host Wizard
  • Web-to-Host web server files

Scope

The scope of this BlueZone Web-to-Host Administrator Guide is to provide a comprehensive reference for the BlueZone Web-to-Host administrator to install, configure and maintain BlueZone Web-to-Host, which is the web-deployed version of the BlueZone family of emulation clients.

This Administrator's Guide is not intended to replace the BlueZone Display and Printer User Guide which covers the configuration of the BlueZone emulation client applications. BlueZone Display and Printer User Guide can be opened directly from any of the BlueZone emulation clients during the configuration process.

This guide assumes that you are familiar with the web server where BlueZone Web-to-Host is being installed and that you have the knowledge and the resources necessary to configure and manage that web server.

Terminology

The following terms are used in this publication.
BlueZone Web-to-Host
The BlueZone components that are installed, configured, and maintained on and deployed from the web server.
BlueZone Web-to-Host Wizard
The GUI application that is used to configure sites, launch folders, and sessions.
BlueZone
The BlueZone emulation clients that are downloaded from the web server and run on the user's Windows workstation.