Login settings

Use this page to specify the user for the WebSphere Application Server administrative console. If you are using global security, then you also specify a password.

Specify a user allows you to resume work done previously with the product. After you type in a user ID, click OK to proceed to the next page and access the administrative console.

To view this page, start the administrative console.

 

User ID

Specifies a string identifying the user. The user ID must be unique to the administrative server.

Work that you do with the product and then save before exiting the product will be saved to a configuration identified by the user ID that you enter. To later access work done under that user ID, specify the user ID in the Login page.

If you are logging in from a client machine that currently has a browser open on the administrative console and you connect to the same server, your two connections might share the same HTTP session object, whether or not you are logging in under different user IDs. You must use two different types of browsers (for example, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator) to log in to the administrative console from the same client machine in order to work from two different HTTP session objects, whether or not you use the same user ID. That is, if you need two concurrent sessions on the same client machine, access the administrative console from two different browser types.

Note that you can use the same browser type to log in twice to the console, but log in from different physical hosts and use different user IDs. For example, suppose that Joe logs into the administrative console under the user ID joe on the physical host myhost1 using an Internet Explorer browser. Joe can log into the same console a second time using an Internet Explorer browser, but he must use a different user ID (such as peggy) and a different physical host (such as myhost2).

Data type	String

 

Another user is currently logged in with the same user name

Specifies whether to log out the user and continue work with the user ID specified or to return to the Login page and specify a different user ID or wait for the user to log out.

This field appears if the user closed a Web browser while browsing the administrative console and did not first log out, then opened a new browser and tried accessing the administrative console.

 

Work with the master configuration

When enabled, specifies that you want to use the default administrative configuration and not use the configuration last used for the user's session. Changes made to the user's session since the last saving of the administrative configuration will be lost.

This field appears only if the user changed the administrative configuration and then logged out without saving the changes.

Data type	Boolean
Default	false

 

Recover changes made in prior session

When enabled, specifies that you want to use the same administrative configuration last used for the user's session. Recovers changes made by the user since the last saving of the administrative configuration for the user's session.

This field appears only if the user changed the administrative configuration and then logged out without saving the changes.

Data type	Boolean
Default	true

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Start and stopping the administrative console
Administrative console buttons

 

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