In addition to the standard DPM application settings, the UserAuth web service has a setting called LocalURL. This is required for other web services to know how to access the KeepAlive URL. They can use their incoming URL and adjust it to point to the UserAuth web service in a relative location, but the HTTP scheme or host address might be different between a request made by a client external to the cluster and a server within the cluster. For this reason the LocalURL can be used to specify the precise location of the web service for internal servers.

If the LocalURL setting is missing or is an empty string, the UserAuth web service is assumed to be accessible using a relative URL to the external request. For example, if a client accesses the Quota web service by using:

then the UserAuth web service is assumed to exist at: