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Desktop, Browser, and Java Web Start clients
The Tivoli Enterprise Portal client can be deployed in three ways, as described briefly here and in more detail in the Installation and Setup Guide.
- Desktop
- The desktop client requires that you load and run the installation software on each computer where the desktop client will be run. Users start Tivoli Enterprise Portal the same way they do their other locally installed applications. With the desktop client, you can also create multiple instances for connecting to different portal servers.
- Browser
- The browser client installation software resides on the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server. The client software is downloaded from there to your computer the first time you log on to the portal server from your browser, and thereafter only when there are software updates.
You can start the browser client from any browser-enabled computer by entering the URL for the portal server. In this mode of operation, each portal workspace has a URL, so you can save a workspace to your Favorites list.
With the browser client you can launch from the Tivoli Enterprise Portal to other Tivoli web-based and web-enabled applications, and from those applications into the portal without re-entering your log-on credentials. This single sign-on solution uses a central LDAP-based user registry to authenticate sign-on credentials.
- Java Web Start
- With Java Web Start, like the browser client, the client software is accessed through a URL and downloaded from the portal server. Unlike the browser client, which is always run inside the browser, the Web Start client is run as a desktop application. Whenever updates to the client software are available, they are downloaded from the portal server automatically. References to desktop client behavior in this guide also assumes the Java Web Start client unless otherwise stated. Single sign-on is an example: As well as the browser client, you can use single sign-on with the Web Start client
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