Web-based System Manager is a graphical user interface (GUI) application for managing your work on your system. You can perform such tasks as viewing users and groups, installed software, and printers and devices; managing logical volumes; mounting and unmounting file systems; configuring the network; and numerous other tasks. You can manage systems from a locally attached display or remotely from another AIX system or personal computer equipped with a web browser.
The Web-based System Manager GUI provides point-and-click control of objects, which provides an alternative to learning and using AIX commands.
Web-based System Manager contains the following applications:
| Application | Contents |
|---|---|
| Backups | From Backups, you can create a backup of the operating system (that is, the root volume group), view files in a system image backup, and restore individual files from a system image backup. A system image backup can be used to restore your system to its current state. If you create the backup on tape, the tape is bootable and includes the installation programs needed to install from the backup. |
| Devices | From Devices, you can perform device management tasks, such as adding or deleting a device. You can also change various device options. Devices include hardware components, such as printers, drives, adapters, buses, and enclosures, as well as pseudo-devices, such as PTY and LFT. |
| File Systems | From File Systems, you can restore a file system and perform tasks associated with journaled file systems, network file systems, and CD-ROM file systems. |
| Volumes | From Volumes, you can perform tasks associated with volume Groups, logical volumes, physical volumes, and paging space. |
| Network | From Network, you can perform tasks associated with TCP/IP protocol configuration, maintenance, and network interfaces; Point-to-Point protocol configuration, interfaces, and authentication; TCP/IP services, subsystems, and access control; Network Information Service; and Network File System. |
| Printer Queues | From Printer Queues, you can perform tasks associated with local and remote print services, print queues, print processors (full and partial), print devices, and print jobs in queues. |
| Processes | From Processes, you can perform process management tasks, including showing/changng the properties and priority of a process, binding or unbinding a process, deleting a process, locating defunct processes and processes consuming excessive resource. |
| Software | From Software, you can perform software installation and maintenance activities on a managed AIX system. Use Web-based System Manager to install and update software, to commit or reject updates, to remove selected software from the managed system, or to perform NIM client tasks. |
| Subsystems | From the Subsystems application, you can refresh, start, stop, start tracing, or stop tracing a subsystem, subserver, or subsystem group. |
| System | From System, you can manage system components, including:
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| Users | From Users, you can perform tasks associated with adding and managing users and groups in a managed AIX system. |
| NIM | From NIM (an application for distributing software installation operations across a network), you can administer a NIM environment. Use NIM to manage global aspects of the NIM environment, to manage machines in the environment,to manage resources in the environment, or to install and maintain software. |
| Registered Application | From Registered Application, you can register web-based applications, such as Netfinity servers, from within Web-based System Manager |
For detailed information about functions and applications, see the online help and documentation.