Is it possible to use SSL with LDAP, but not rest of Hyperion environment?

Question

Hello Experts,
We need to encrypt the user credentials passed between LDAP and Shared Services. For this, I believe, we need to use SSL. And for that, we need to SSL enable the Web App Server that Shared Services runs off? If we enable SSL on this, is it possible to continue using non-SSL versions of App & Web servers in the rest of the Hyperion environment? This is because SSL will cause a negative impact to performance, and we want to reduce that impact as much as possible.
Environment:
Shared Services 9.3.1.0.7 on WebSphere Application Server 6.0.2.11 on Windows 2003
Planning 9.3.1.1
Essbase 9.3.1
HFM 9.3.1
BI+ 9.3.1
Please Suggest. Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Sonu

Answer 1

Both windows and osx do a few things that can cause problems, they do what you say, they assume that you will connect to the same network you last connected and try to use the same configuration, they try to skip most steps like dhcp and arp and it will probably work fine if it actually is the same network and no one else got the same IP otherwise they will have to go through all the steps.
I have seen a blog post describing the differences a while ago but now I can't find it and I don't remember how I got there, I guess that if you search long enough you might stumble upon some description of this. From what I remember, the short story is that on linux programs go by the book and try to be good neighbors, windows and osx don't and they can cause trouble just for the sake of shaving a few seconds of the time to get connected, the thing is most of the times it works fine