Console Properties Notebook: Web Server Page
Use the Web Server page to designate the console machine as a Web server. This causes the console machine to capture topographic and detail views and convert them into HTML and GIF files, which you can view on any Web browser. You can set the following properties for the Web server:
- Automatically start web server
- Select to start the web server function every time you sign on.
- Make views available when they are opened
- Select to have views added to the set of servable views at the time they
are opened on the console machine. If you don't select this option, you must
manually add views to the list.
- Log web server messages to the console log
- Select to send a record of each view that is opened on the Web browser to the
Console Log. This is not recommended unless you
need to closely track your views because it will create a record every time a view is
refreshed from the attached browsers.
- HTML reload interval
- Enter the number of seconds that should elapse between view refreshes on the
Web browser. The default interval is 60 seconds. You can designate an interval between
0 and 99,999 seconds. If you enter 0, the view will not reload automatically, and you must
refresh the view manually.
- Start web server now
- Click Start web server now to start the web server. Note that Stop web
server now is now enabled, Start of port range and
End of port range are disabled, and the label after End of port range
indicates the port on which the Web server is running.
After starting the web server function, you can look at any views that are open on the
console machine on a Web browser page.
- Start of port range
- Specify the starting port number for the port number range. The default value is 80.
Note: Valid port numbers are 1 through 65535, inclusive. Port numbers 1
through 1023 are reserved for administrative functions on some systems, for example,
UNIX. In this case, numbers above 1023 are available for use.
- End of port range
- Specify the ending port number for the port number range. The default value is 90.
Note: Valid port numbers are 1 through 65535, inclusive. Port numbers 1
through 1023 are reserved for administrative functions on some systems, for example,
UNIX. In this case, numbers above 1023 are available for use.
- Stop web server now
- You can stop the web server at any time by clicking Stop web server now.
Start of port range and End of port range become enabled and
the label after End of port range indicates that the web server
is not currently running.
You must stop the web server before changing your port number range. You can
edit the other settings without stopping the web server. After making your changes,
click Apply.
- Default
- To return the Web Server page to its default settings, 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.
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.
You can
designate multiple consoles as Web servers. Each web server on the same machine must have a unique port number or range of
port numbers.
After designating the console machine as a Web server, enter the host name of the
console machine (followed by a colon and the port number if you specified
a port number range other than the default of 80 through 90) as the URL in the
Web browser. The Web browser will capture any open views in the console machine. You can then display the captured views as
Web browser pages.
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 return the entire Console Properties Notebook to its default settings.
- Cancel
- To exit the Web Server page without making any changes.