The Operations Center console is accessed through the Operations Center server Login page, which can be opened from a Web browser. For a list of supported Web browsers, see the Operations Center Getting Started Guide.
To launch the Operations Center console:
On the machine where you have deployed the Operations Center console, do one of the following:
Open a Web browser and access the following URL:
http://OperationsCenterServer:port
where port is the port specified during the configuration of the Operations Center server. By default, it is port 80.
If you’ve previously accessed the Operations Center console, click the desktop shortcut to the Operations Center server Login page.
A shortcut is automatically created when you access the Operations Center console the first time.
Click Login and enter a user ID and password.
These are assigned using the Operations Center console.
If you are using Java Web Start over HTTPS, you must have a valid certificate that is recognized by the JRE. See the Operations Center Security Management Guide for more information about user accounts and communication security.
If the JRE is not installed or has not been updated to version 1.6, follow the prompts to install or upgrade the JRE. If an upgrade is necessary, exceptions are displayed in the Java console which can be ignored.
The Operations Center console opens.
If the Operations Center console application is not found or does not match the version loaded on the Operations Center server, Java Web Start automatically downloads all of the necessary files from the Operations Center server to the console machine. It then caches the files on the console machine so that the console application can be restarted at any time, using a desktop icon or a browser link.
The mechanism that automatically updates the Operations Center console on the Operations Center console machine is optimized to reduce network traffic. It analyzes the differences between the version of the Operations Center console’s .jar file loaded on the Operations Center console machine and the version of the Operations Center console’s .jar file installed on the server, and sends only the differences to the Operations Center console machine.
To determine the differences, the server must contain both the latest version of the Operations Center console software and the same version that is installed on the Operations Center console machine. If the server cannot find the version of the Operations Center console software that is loaded on the Operations Center console machine, it sends the entire latest version of the Operations Center console software to the Operations Center console machine.