Overview

This chapter describes Univiewer Console features used by all products.

UVC can only be launched if the JAVA_HOME system environment variable is set to the bin directory containing the java executable.

• On Windows: call the GUI from the Windows menu: Start > Programs > AUTOMIC > Univiewer Console > Univiewer console or execute univiewer_console.exe (from the univiewer sub-directory).
• On Linux: execute the unistartconsole.ksh (from the univiewer sub-directory).

Login

On the first connection, the Login window will require the following elements to determine the target UVMS and authenticate the user:

• Login

  Enter the UVMS login user account ("admin" by default):

  • Case sensitive for internal users (checked first).
  • Case insensitive for LDAP users.

• Password

  Enter the password provided during UVMS installation. The user name and password can only contain the following characters:
  ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789!#&'()+,-.:;>=<?@[]_{|}~

• Management Server

  Identifies the target UVMS: <node name> [<host name>:<port number>].
  This history lists all the successful connections to the UVMS. It can be erased by clicking Advanced > Clear history.

• Advanced

  Allows the target UVMS to be changed.

• SSL

  Check this box to get an SSL encrypted communication between UVC and UVMS.
  This is only possible if UVMS was configured to operate in SSL mode.

• Hostname

  The UVMS host name. Connection will fail if the UVMS is not started.

• Port

  Enter the port number that was validated during UVMS installation. By default :

  • 4184 for clear communication
  • 4443 for an SSL communication

• Centralized User Preferences

  Check this box to centralize in UVMS database (in addition to the local storage on this workstation) your user preferences from UVC Administration mode, your bookmarks and your lists filters. This way, if you use another workstation, you can recover your user preferences by checking this box the next time you log in. Several situations occur:

  • If you check this box and your user preferences do not exist in UVMS, your local user preferences will be centralized in UVMS database.
  • If you check this box and your user preferences already exist in UVMS, you will find them in UVC. Your central user preferences in UVMS will be migrated locally and overwrite your local user preferences.
  • If you have already checked this box for the previous connection of this login on this UVMS on this work station, it will appear checked.
  • If you do not want to use your centralized user preferences on this workstation, uncheck the box.

  User preferences are stored locally in two files:

  • localsettings.xml contains the user preferences from the administration mode and lists filters.
  • bookmarks.xml contains the bookmarks.

Click Connect to establish the connection or Exit to close the window without trying to connect.

If the connection cannot be established with the targeted UVMS, a message is displayed to inform the user. If several UVMS are declared in UVC, the message contains the list of target hosts: the user can then cancel the connection attempt. If the message windows is kept, the connection will be established automatically as soon as possible. The duration of a connection attempt with a host can be modified with the node setting UVMS_UVC_RECONNECTION_TIMER.

Refer to the Univiewer Administration Guide for more details.

If the following message is displayed: "The telemetry settings are not configured. Please contact your administrator to proceed.", refer to section Telemetry "Telemetry" of the Univiewer Administration Guide.

On your very first connection, the interface will open in Bookmark mode with the desktop perspective active.