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Starting the Web Client

When you start the NerveCenter Web Client, you are prompted for a username and password which the client uses to connect you automatically to one or more NerveCenter servers that you've preselected.

Of course the first time you use the client, no servers will have been selected, so you must specify one or a set of NerveCenter servers that the Web client connects to. See the section Modifying the Server Connection List, for more information.

Once you start the Web client, you can also modify which alarm instances display and how they display in the Web client. See the section Defining a Partition, for more information.

 
  To start the Web client:

1. Start your Web browser.
2. In your browser's address or location field, enter the URL of the server on which you've installed NerveCenter Web support, followed by a slash, followed by the directory name NerveCenter. For example, you might enter: http://durncweb/NerveCenter

   where durncweb is the Web server.

   The NerveCenter Web Client's Login Information page displays.

   Login Information Page

   

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3. Enter a user name and password in the Username and Password fields.

   The user whose name you enter here must be a member of the NerveCenter Users or NerveCenter Admins group (Windows NT) or the ncusers or ncadmins group (UNIX) on the servers to which you want to connect.

4. Select one of the Login Preferences radio buttons.

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   Note    If you're logging in to a NerveCenter Server using the Web client for the first time, skip this step and go to step 5. Then, to complete your login, see the section, Modifying the Server Connection List, for more information.

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   • If you select the Auto-Connect Previously Selected Servers radio button (the default) after you log in, you will be taken to the client's alarm-summary page. This is the page you use to view information about alarm instances.
   • If you select the Modify Server Connection List radio button after you log in, you will be taken to the client's Server Selection page. This is the page you use to specify the servers from which you want to get information about alarm instances. See the section Modifying the Server Connection List, for more information.
   • If you select the Modify Preferences radio button after you log in, you will be taken to the client's Preferences page. This is the page you use to specify how the client should filter and present information about alarm instances. See the section Setting Preferences, for more information.
5. Select the OK button.