Overview : VisiBroker Console

VisiBroker Console
The VisiBroker Console provides a graphical user interface that lets you examine the VisiBroker infrastructure that is running on your network. The VisiBroker Console can run on any machine from which users want to view or modify the distributed system.
Starting and logging on to the VisiBroker Console
To start the VisiBroker Console:
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Click Start > Programs > VisiBroker > VisiBroker Console or open a Command Prompt, and type:
vbconsole
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To recognize the vbconsole command, your path system variable must include the <install_dir>\bin directory, or you can enter the path explicitly.
UNIX
Open a command shell and type:
vbconsole
Note
To recognize the console command, your path system variable must include the <install_dir>/bin directory, or you can enter the path explicitly.
The Administration Security Credentials screen appears.
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To use the Micro Focus default credential settings, enter the password:
admin
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The VisiBroker Console appears.
VisiBroker Console menus
The VisiBroker Console provides these main menus:
Console menu
The following table describes the commands on the Console menu.
View menu
The following table describes the commands on the View menu.
Tools menu
The following table describes the commands on the Tools menu.
Help menu
This menu provides you with access to each of the online Help documents and the About screen for the VisiBroker Console.
The About screen contains tabs that display some important information about your Micro Focus software.
Setting VisiBroker Console preferences
VisiBroker Console preferences enable you to specify configuration, operation, and appearance settings used by the VisiBroker Console.
To set VisiBroker Console preferences:
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You can alternatively set your preferences by importing a set of predefined preference values from a properties file; and you can export the preferences you have set to a properties file. See “Importing and exporting Console preferences” for how to do this.
The following sections provide details on each set of preferences.
General preferences
The General preferences provide settings to control various VisiBroker Console user interface elements. This tab provides the following options:
Look and feel: Sets the display format and behavior of the VisiBroker Console windows. The available options are: Metal, CDE/Motif, Windows (Microsoft Windows platforms only), or Borland.
Tab memory: Specifies the view state information the VisiBroker Console uses. The following options are available:
Don't remember last visited tab pane: Tells the VisiBroker Console to open each node in the tree with the General tab displayed on the right.
Remember last visited tab pane by type: Tells the VisiBroker Console to open a node on the same type of tab (on a similar node) that was most recently viewed. For example, if the Properties tab is currently in view and you click on another node that has a Properties tab, the VisiBroker Console first displays the Properties tab for that node.
Remember last visited tab pane by type and name: Tells the VisiBroker Console to open a node that had been expanded earlier in the VisiBroker Console session to the tab that was last in view when that node was selected.
Sound beep on errors: If checked, the VisiBroker Console sounds an alarm when an error occurs.
Enable debug output: Tells the VisiBroker Console to report debugging information in the Errors pane at the bottom of the VisiBroker Console.
HTML Browser Setup: Specifies the path to the Web browser you wish to use with the VisiBroker Console. Use the Browse button to locate an installed Web browser.
Security preferences
The Security preferences provide settings relating to the administration and management of the security environment. This tab provides the following options:
Default realm: Specifies the name of the authentication realm used by the VisiBroker Console to interact with each AppServer.
Default user: Specifies the user name used by the VisiBroker Console.
Enable Security: Determines how the VisiBroker Console handles security:
VisiBroker preferences
The VisiBroker tab is used to specify user interface options for the VisiBroker Console. This tab provides the following options:
Remove Stale Service Reference: Enable this option to remove all stale VisiBroker services references that were configured in the My Services folder of the VisiBroker Console main view.
Enable DNS Lookup: Enable this option to have the VisiBroker Console resolve any related DNS information to display in the Console. For example, the Console would display an IP address as its registered host name.
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Because any DNS lookup is an expensive resource operation, the VisiBroker Console provides this option to enable or disable DNS lookup.
Importing and exporting Console preferences
To import a defined set of preference values:
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To export your defined preference values to a file:
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The properties file has one property per line, in the format <preference_name>;<preference_value>. For example:
osagent.port;osagent.port.list=14000
user.interface;console.location=491,92
user.interface;debug=1