Web Administration program

The Web Administration program provides similar functions to the Motif administration program. It allows you to administer CS/AIX from your browser without the need to start an X session or telnet session to the CS/AIX server, and is particularly useful when connecting over slow or unreliable links.

Before starting the Web administration program, ensure the following:

  • The CS/AIX software is enabled (for more information, see Administering CS/AIX).
  • The Web server software is running on the CS/AIX server (for more information, refer to the documentation for your Web server software).

To use the Web administration program, load the following URL in your browser:

http://server_name/SnaAdmin/

Replace server_name with the TCP/IP host name of the CS/AIX server.

The program displays a logon screen. Enter the AIX user ID and password that you use to log on to the AIX system in order to use other CS/AIX administration functions.

Once you have logged on, the program displays a similar interface to the Motif administration program, and provides similar functions. For more information about using the program to define and manage CS/AIX resources, refer to the help screens provided by the program.

Note: The Web administration program enables you to set up all required parameters for standard CS/AIX configurations. For advanced parameters, the program supplies default values. You need to supply only the essential configuration information, which enables you to set up SNA communications quickly and easily.

The other CS/AIX administration tools, including command-line configuration and NOF application programs, provide access to a wider range of configuration parameters and options than those shown in the Web administration program. In most cases, however, you can perform all needed configuration from this administration program, because it exposes the key fields you need to configure and hides the fields that most users should not need to modify. The default values supplied by the Web administration program may differ from those supplied by command-line configuration, because the Web program can choose values more intelligently based on the context of the configuration task you are performing. (They may also differ from those supplied by the Motif administration program, because that program can choose values based on other choices you have already made in the same dialog.)

If you need to use these additional functions, you can still use the Web administration program to set up the basic configuration, and use the other administration tools to specify the additional functions. When you later use the Web administration program to manage the modified configuration, the program retains the changes you made using the other tools, although the additional functions you have configured are not displayed in the Web program.