Starting Web-based System Manager

You can start Web-based System Manager in the following ways:

• On an AIX system with a graphics terminal:
  • From the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) Application Manager
  • From a command line terminal window in the AIXwindows environment
  • From a command line terminal in the Common Desktop Environment (CDE)

• On a personal computer, with a Version 3.2 HTML-compatible web browser.

From the Common Desktop Application Manager

To start Web-based System Manager from the Common Desktop Application Manager, select the Application Manager icon on the Front Panel. In the Application Manager window, select System_Admin. In the Application Manager - System_Admin window, select the Web-based System Manager icon. Clicking on the icon opens the launch pad.

System administrators can open individual components directly by selecting their icons in System_Admin or they can open the launch pad. The advantage of the launch pad method is that you can quickly access multiple components. The direct method is faster for accessing a single component.

Note: You can customize your desktop to make the application icons more accessible. For example, you can create a workspace for just your printing applications and place all the icons in that workspace.

From the Command Line

If you are running the AIXwindows environment, open an aixterm window. If you are running the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) environment, open a dtterm window. To start a Web-based System Manager application, type its fast path command at the command line. You can start the following applications with a fast path command:

From a Web Browser

To open Web-based System Manager from a web browser, type the following in your browser's URL or location field:

http://<your server name>/wsm.html

This opens the Web-based System Manager launch container. Double-click on the icon of the application that you want to use.