Console Properties Notebook: General Page

Use the General page to change the following properties:

General
Save preferences on exit
Select to indicate that you want to save the current look of the topology console window, and any windows you have detached with the Tear Away functions, when you exit the topology console.

If you select to save preferences on exit, the following things are saved:

  • Window positions
  • Window sizes
  • Slider positions

    Note: This function does not save changes you have made to open views, such as moving resources or changing view display options. To save those changes, use the Save View Customization function.

    Note: This function does not save information about which views are open or which work spaces are torn-away.

If you select to save preferences, the next time you sign on to the topology server you can specify whether you want these saved preferences restored. You can continue to restore these preferences until they are overwritten by another save action.

Request timeout
Specify how long (in seconds) the server should wait for responses to requests before timing out. The default is 60 seconds.

Console time zone
Select the appropriate time zone for the console. This dynamically updates some of the console time stamps. To ensure that all time stamps are updated, restart the console.
Search
Search Using Regular Expressions
Select to indicate that you want searches to use regular expressions. If you don't select this option, searches will use DOS-style wildcards.

Configure Help Facility
Use the built-in help facility
Select to use the built-in NMC web browser to display help topics.

Use my default Web browser
Select to use the default web browser for the platform. Netscape is the default browser for UNIX, and must be included in the path.

Let me specify my own browser
Select to use any browser other than the browser included with NMC. Enter the browser location in the field below the radio button.

If you enter "$URL" anywhere in the path, NMC will replace "$URL" with the Help topic URL. If you do not enter "$URL" in the path, NMC will append the Help topic URL to the path you provide.

If you enter a path that contains a blank, enclose the entire path in quotation marks.

Note: If a problem occurs with launching the web browser after you select either  Use my default Web browser or Let me specify my own browser, a message is displayed, describing the problem. If a problem occurs after a successful launch of the web browser using either of these options, an HTML file is displayed, describing the problem.

If you request help for the Sign On dialog, the help is displayed in the NMC Help facility regardless of the Help facility you selected on this page.

Browse
Click Browse to search for the external browser on your system.
Select look and feel
Available in both the Windows and UNIX environments, this option contains two radio buttons which enable you to change the look and feel of NMC windows as follows:

Notes:

  1. Changing the Select look and feel radio buttons immediately changes the presentation of some NMC windows, but not all of them, in the following ways:
    • The look and feel of windows created using the AWT implementation of Java(tm) cannot be changed; the look and feel of windows created using the Swing implementation of Java(tm) can be changed.
    • If a window that was created with the Swing implementation of Java(tm) is open at the time you change the look and feel, this window will have to be closed and reopened for the change to take effect.
    • Due to the implementation of some of the NMC windows, the look and feel of these windows (the Console Properties notebook for example) will change only after NMC has been exited and started again.
Default
To reset the defaults for this page to the system defaults, click the first Default button.
Save properties as system defaults
To have your settings become the default settings for other consoles attached to the same server, click Save properties as system defaults if you are signed on with administrative authority. The new settings will take effect for each user the next time he or she signs on. However, if a user has changed properties, these changes override any changes saved by the administrator.
Note: The new default settings become active for all consoles opened after the change is applied. The current console and any opened prior to the implementation of the change retain the settings they had prior to the change. To have the new default values take effect for these consoles, close the consoles and reopen them.

When you are finished with this page, select another tab to go to a different page, or click one of the following buttons:

OK
To exit the notebook and apply your changes.
Apply
To apply your changes, but keep the notebook open.
Default
To reset properties for all pages in this notebook to the system defaults.
Cancel
To exit the notebook without making changes.