Web-based System Manager

Web-based System Manager provides the following features to assist you in easily managing your system:

• Comprehensiveness—With this extensive and consistent administrative environment, you can manage your system without having to manually edit configuration files or use UNIX commands.
• Multiple Host Views—Few environments exist where there is a single system that needs to be managed. Web-based System Manager provides a view of the multiple host management environment. Adding hosts to the management console can be accomplished by reading a text file containing host names, or by manually adding hosts to the console.
• Client Independence—Web-based System Manager offers you the choice of client operating systems and platforms. You can use various client platforms to manage AIX 5L systems. Supported platforms for remote client on Linux are Red Hat Enterprise Version 3, SLES 8, SLES 9, Suse 8.0, Suse 8.1, Suse 8.2, and Suse 9.0 using desktops KDE and GNOME only.
• Location Independence—You can manage an IBM eServer using a locally attached graphical terminal or a remote client with equal ease. The same graphical user interface is available whether the client is a personal computer or an eServer workstation.
• Ease of Use—Ease of use can reduce training costs and those caused by human error. It also enhances productivity and work satisfaction. Web-based System Manager makes extensive use of 'wizards' and 'overviews' in order to give the end user a 'one-stop-shop' for basic management and status information, links to online help and 'one-click' task initiation.
• Enhanced ease of management—The AIX 5L release of Web-based System Manager further simplifies administrative tasks through improvements in task design, new user interface features and enhanced user assistance technology. In addition, use of Java 1.4 JFC technology makes it more accessible to users with disabilities.
• Dynamic monitoring, notification, and control—The RMC subsystem is a powerful and flexible monitoring system that provides dynamic status updates, e-mail notification, and unattended responses to system events. 

With Web-based System Manager, any operating system and platform for which a JAVA™ 1.4 enabled browser is available can be used to manage an IBM eServer system. Web-based System Manager for AIX 5L Version 5.2 supports, and has been tested on, AIX 5L versions 5.1C, 5.1D, 5.1F, 5.2B, 5.2F, 5.2H and 5.3, Windows 2000 and XP Professional, and Windows Server 2003; and Red Hat Enterprise Version 3, SLES 8, SLES 9, Suse 8.0, Suse 8.1, Suse 8.2, and Suse 9.0 using desktops KDE or GNOME only. Web-based System Manager no longer provides remote client support on Windows 95, 98 ME and NT platforms due to installation and system environment limitations inherent in those platforms.