Environment Settings

When dealing with a suite of applications that work together over a network, a problem that arises often is how to identify applications that belong to separate installations. Simply deploying every parallel installation to separate networks is not always possible, therefore, the applications from an installation must be able to locate each other and the accessible resources without interfering with applications from other installations. In the context of IBM® AD such an installation is called "environment".

An "environment" is defined in IBM AD Configuration Server. For each environment a default workspace and a default blank configuration are created and then automatically attached. A workspace is a collection of projects to which the administrator can grant access to the users of IBM AD. A configuration holds the installation parameters for the server components and the databases that IBM AD uses. It also stores global parameters for Reports and Rule based reports.

In order to work correctly with the rest of the components from the same installation, IBM AD Analyze needs to access the environment information. It is automatically made available to IBM AD Analyze by IBM AD Configuration Server.

To access the Environment settings, go to IBM AD Analyze Client and select Window > Preferences > Application Discovery > Environment settings.

The following information is available:
  • Host, displays the host name or the IP address of the computer where IBM AD Configuration Server is installed.
  • Port, displays the communications port for IBM AD Configuration Server.
  • Unique id, displays the unique id assigned by IBM AD Configuration Server to the current environment.
  • Name, displays the name of current environment, as defined in IBM AD Configuration Server.
Note: Make sure that the hostname or IP address, and the communications port displayed here are the ones set when you installed IBM AD Configuration Server. Also, make sure that the environment name and the unique ID displayed here are the ones associated to the environment you defined in IBM AD Configuration Server.

A list of links to the global settings for each IBM AD component is available. Click these links to view the global settings for each component.