To access the administrative console, you must start it
and then log in. After you finish working in the console, save your
work and log out.
Before you begin
Ensure you have started the application server required
by the administrative console.
About this task
To start the console, log in, and then log out, use the following
procedure.
Procedure
- Start the administrative console:
- Enable cookies in the Web browser that you plan to use
to access the administrative console.
- Optional: Enable JavaScript™.
JavaScript enablement is recommended so that all the features of the
administrative console are available to you.
- In your cookie-enabled Web browser, type the following:
http://your_fully_qualified_server_name:portNumber/ibm/console
where your_fully_qualified_server_name specifies
the fully qualified host name for the system that contains the administrative
server and portNumber is the administrative console
port number.
If security is enabled, your request is redirected
to https://your_fully_qualified_server_name:secure_portNumber/ibm/console,
where your_fully_qualified_server_name is the fully
qualified host name for the system that contains the administrative
server and secure_portNumber is the administrative
console secure port number.
Note: The default port
number for an unsecure administrative console is port 9060, and for
a secure administrative console the default port number is 9043. Each
new administrative console that you deploy during profile creation
is assigned a new unsecure port number and, if you enable security
during profile creation, a new secure port number.
- Check the System.Out.log file of
the server that runs the console application to verify that the console
application has started successfully. A successful start produces
the message WSVR0221I: Application started: isclite.
The administrative console loads in the browser, displaying
a login page.
- Log into the console:
- In the User ID field, enter your
user name or user ID. The user ID lasts only for the duration
of the session for which it is used to log in.
Note: If
you enter an ID that is already in use (and in session) you are prompted
to do one of the following:
- Log out the other user with the same user ID. You can recover
changes made during the other user's session.
- Return to the login page and enter a different user ID.
Any changes made to server configurations are saved
to the user ID. Server configurations are also saved to the user ID
if a session times out.
- If security is enabled for the console, you must also
enter a password in the Password field.
- Click OK.
The administrative
console now displays the Welcome page.
- Log off the console:
- To save the work you have done during this session, click System
administration > Save changes to master repository > Save,
and then click Logout to exit the console.
- To exit the console without saving your changes to the repository,
click Logout.
If you close the browser before saving
your work, you can recover any unsaved changes the next time that
you log in with the same user ID.