BMC AMI Console Management web configuration

Clicking on this button will take you to a new page prompting for the BMC AMI Console Management administrator user name and password. Entering the correct values and clicking the Login button will take you to the General Settings administration page, which is the starting point for BMC AMI Console Management configuration and control.

Clicking on this button will take you to a new page with a list BMC AMI Console Management-related software downloads. Currently the only download available is the LDAP Authentication Tools package containing documentation and utilities for specialized authentication needs.
To download the software:

1. Click on the Download icon next to a listed package. 

2. Save the file to the desktop.

   For more information, see Planning-and-installing.

Clicking on this button will take you to a new page listing Automation Viewers that have been enabled for use with your browser.

• Launch Applet - starts the viewer as a Java applet. This is currently only supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer. Neither Firefox nor Chrome support Java applets.
• Web Start - This link will download a jnlp file and use Java Web Start to launch the viewer. By right clicking on the link and Save target as... (IE) or Save Link As... (Firefox, Chrome) you can save the jnlp file to your desktop computer. Double clicking on the file will launch the viewer (without having to use the browser each time). Note that if the software on your BMC AMI Console Management server has been upgraded, you may need to download new jnlp files.

Whether or not each link is present depends on the Viewer Launch setting on the Access Control page in General Settings as set up by your administrator.

Clicking on this button will take you to a new page listing CCS Consoles that have been enabled for use with your browser.

For each configured viewer there will be one or two links provide. 

• Launch Applet  - starts the viewer as a Java applet. This is currently only supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer. Neither Firefox nor Chrome support Java applets.
• Web Start - This link will download a jnlp file and use Java Web Start to launch the viewer. By right clicking on the link and Save target as... (IE) or Save Link As... (Firefox, Chrome) you can save the jnlp file to your desktop computer. Double clicking on the file will launch the viewer (without having to use the browser each time). Note that if the software on your BMC AMI Console Management has been upgraded, you may need to download new jnlp files.

Whether or not each link is present depends on the Viewer Launch setting on the Access Control page in General Settings as set up by your administrator. 

Clicking this button takes you to a new page which allows you to change your password. This is applicable in the CCS Applet and the BMC AMI Console Management viewer when using the internal BMC AMI Console Management user authentication database. 

If you are using the optional BMC AMI Console Management external authentication to validate users against enterprise sources such as Active Directory and RACF, you must change passwords outside of BMC AMI Console Management.

Launches the Online help. 

Clicking on this button will take you to a new page with a description of the enhancements in this version of BMC AMI Console Management.