Configuring Management Central
You can take full advantage of the capability that iSeries™ Navigator for Wireless provides when you interact with Management Central. iSeries Navigator for Wireless does not need a PC to run, but you need a PC to set up Management Central.
Before you begin configuring Management Central, complete the following tasks:
- Install iSeries Navigator on the PC as a component of iSeries Access for Windows®.
No additional installation is needed. When installing iSeries Access for Windows, select iSeries Navigator from the list of available components, and then select the components you want (Monitors, Commands).
- Set up Management Central (central system, endpoint systems, monitors, commands).
To connect to Management Central from a wireless device, your Web application server must be set up on the endpoint system you have configured as your Management Central central system.
Because iSeries Navigator for Wireless is a companion to Management Central, iSeries Navigator for Wireless uses endpoint systems and monitors that are defined in Management Central to report status and to monitor metric information.
To configure Management Central for use by iSeries Navigator for Wireless, follow these steps:
- Add systems to your network so that you can monitor status. To add endpoint systems, follow the steps in Adding endpoint systems to your Management Central network.
Only systems defined as endpoint systems in Management Central show up in iSeries Navigator for Wireless. This includes systems with Integrated xSeries® Servers. If you want to manage your integrated servers on a particular system, make sure that the system has been added as an endpoint system.
When all of your endpoint systems have been added, collect inventory so information about each endpoint system is available for you to view from iSeries Navigator.
- Create monitors with meaningful names, and keep the names short to prevent them from scrolling on the wireless devices. To create monitors, follow the steps in Creating a new monitor.
When you give a monitor a meaningful name, you can easily recognize the monitor on a wireless device, and you will know what it is monitoring for, if it has been triggered, and the severity of a problem you are looking at.
Monitors in Management Central enable you to set up thresholds, and to perform automation if those thresholds occur. The goal of iSeries Navigator for Wireless is to keep you informed of the status of these monitors wherever you are. With iSeries Navigator for Wireless, you can also view metrics and values on a specific system.
- Start and stop monitors.
You have the ability to start and stop monitors from iSeries Navigator for Wireless, but if you start them in Management Central, your monitors are active and looking for problems, and data will have already been collected when you access your monitors from a wireless device. Many times after a problem occurs, you will need to monitor something in more detail. If you predefine these troubleshooting monitors in Management Central, you can start them later using iSeries Navigator for Wireless.
- Create command definitions.
You can run commands from iSeries Navigator for Wireless. However, entering a long command into an Internet-ready telephone can be quite cumbersome. That is why your command definitions are also displayed so you can run the commands in the definitions directly from iSeries Navigator for Wireless. Create as many command definitions as you would like, but keep the names short so you can see them on a small display.
To create command definitions, follow these steps:
- Expand Management Central > Definitions.
- Right-click Command and select New Definition. The New Command Definition window opens.
Parent topic:
Configuring your wireless environment
Related concepts
Management Central
Configuring a Web application server
Related tasks
Installing iSeries Navigator
Working with monitors
Creating command definitions