Starting Web-based System Manager

Quick Beginnings

Starting Web-based System Manager

You can start Web-based System Manager in the following ways:

On an AIX system with a graphics terminal:
On a personal computer, with a Version 3.2 HTML-compatible web browser.

From the Common Desktop Application Manager

To start Web-based System Manager from the Common Desktop Application Manager, select the Application Manager icon on the Front Panel.
In the Application Manager window, select System_Admin.
In the Application Manager - System_Admin window, select the Web-based System Manager icon. Clicking on the icon opens the launch pad.

Note: You can customize your desktop to make the application icons more accessible. For example, you can create a workspace for just your printing applications and place all the icons in that workspace.

From the Command Line

If you are running the AIXwindows environment, open an aixterm window.

If you are running the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) environment, open a dtterm window.

To start a Web-based System Manager application, type its fast path command at the command line. You can start the following applications with a fast path command:

Application	Fast Path
Backups	wsm backup
Devices	wsm devices
File Systems	wsm fs
Network	wsm network
NIM	wsm nim
Printer Queues	wsm printers
Processes	wsm processes
Registered Application	wsm register
Software	wsm software
Subsystems	wsm subsystems
System	wsm system
Users	wsm users
Volumes	wsm lvm
Web-based System Manager Launch App	wsm
Workload Management	wsm wlm

From a Web Browser

To open Web-based System Manager from a web browser, type the following in your browser's URL or location field:
```
http://<your server name>/wsm.html
```
This opens the Web-based System Manager launch container.
Double-click on the icon of the application that you want to use.