Chapter 14 Using the Systems Management Web Console

Using the Web console

The Web console provides two access points for remote administration:

Systems Management - allows you to perform basic management functions, such as reading error logs, or starting and stopping services.
Systems Management Access Control - allows you to limit which users can access or modify the state of managed systems using the Web console.

You must log in to each of these access points individually.

Connecting to the Web console

In your Web browser, go to:
```
http://host:port/SysMgmt/mgmt
```
Where host and port match the HTTP listener address of the server that hosts the systems management application. The default host is the machine name, and the default port is 8080.
Click the plus-sign icon next to either Systems Management or Systems Management Access Control. A login window displays.
Enter:
- Host name - the name or IP address of the machine where systems management is installed.
- Port - the IIOP port number of the EAServer that is hosting the systems management installation. This is the port number that you assigned to EAServer during installation and configuration. The default is 9000.
- Login - the user name used to log in to EAServer, or if you have installed the optional Enterprise Portal features, a user name valid for the portal security accounts database.
- Password - the password that matches the user name.
Once you have successfully logged in, click the plus-sign icon next to the folder you have just logged into to see the contents.

The user interface controls

The Web console provides tree viewer controls for management and access control. You must log in to either before you can expand and navigate the tree view.

Navigating the tree view

When you first log in, the tree view is collapsed. Use the plus-sign to expand the tree view and your Web browser displays two panes similar to those shown in Figure 14-1. The tree view in the left pane expands and collapses to show the hierarchical view of managed services. When you highlight a specific item in the tree, detailed information about the item displays in the details view in the right pane. In the tree view, you can expand items by clicking on the plus-sign icons next to each folder, and collapse the hierarchy by clicking on the minus-sign icons. Items that lack a plus-sign icon cannot be expanded.

Figure 14-1: Web console view

The details pane

The details pane shows details for the item you have highlighted in the tree view pane on the right. The details that display vary from component to component, and depend upon the component's configuration description defined in the CIM Repository.

When you select an installed component that is listed in the tree view, the details panel displays two columns:

Property - this column displays property names of the component, such as system name where the component is installed, name of the component, and the name of the service.
Value - this column displays the values of the properties from the first column. Values include things such as status, directory paths to installed classes, and the actual name of the service.