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Downloading and running the desktop client
The Tivoli Enterprise Portal can be launched as a desktop application or as a web application. You have three ways to install the desktop application: from a browser by entering the URL of the Java Web Start client on the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server, launching the desktop client from the IBM Java Control Panel, or launching the desktop client using Java Web Start from the command line.
These are the basic instructions for downloading and running the desktop client using Java Web Start. The complete instructions, with configuration notes are given in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Installation and Setup Guide.
Complete one of these steps to install and launch the desktop client using Java Web Start:
Procedure
- Enter the URL of the portal server in a browser:
- Start the browser on the computer where you want to use the desktop client.
- Enter the following URL in the Address field of the browser, where <portal_server_host_name> is the fully qualified host name of the computer where the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server is installed.
http://<portal_server_host_name>:15200/tep.jnlp
Click Run on the security message.
To create a shortcut on your desktop for the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, click Yes when prompted. The desktop client starts and displays the logon window. If IBM Java 1.7 is not the system JVM, you cannot use this shortcut. You must create your own, as described in the topic on "Manually creating a shortcut for the Web Start client" in IBM Tivoli Monitoring Installation and Setup Guide.
Enter the user ID and password to log on to the Tivoli Enterprise Portal or click Cancel if you do not want to log on at this time. The default user ID is sysadmin. If you set the RAS trace option for the Tivoli Enterprise Portal client as documented in IBM Tivoli Monitoring Troubleshooting Guide, when you recycle the client the kcjras1.log should be created in the location where the client was launched. On Windows this defaults to \Documents and Settings\<userid>\Desktop.
Launch the desktop client from IBM Java Control Panel:
- Launch the IBM Java Control Panel:
In the Windows control panel, double-click IBM Java Control Panel. You must be in the Classic view to see IBM Java Control Panel.
Change to <install_dir>/jre/<platform>/bin directory and enter ./ControlPanel.
- On the General tab, in the Temporary Internet Files section, click Sets. The Temporary Files Settings window is displayed.
- Click View Applications.
- On the User tab, select Tivoli Enterprise Portal, then click Launch Online.
Java Web Start downloads and starts the desktop client. When the application is launched, you can close the Control Panel windows.
Launch the desktop client using Java Web Start from the command line:
- Open a command line window and change to the directory where Java Web Start is installed.
C:\Program Files\IBM\Java70\jre\bin
<install_dir>/jre/<platform>/bin
- Enter the following command, where <portal_server_host_name> is the fully qualified host name of the computer where the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server is installed.
javaws http://<portal_server_host_name>:15200/tep.jnlp
./javaws http://<portal_server_host_name>:15200/tep.jnlp
Java Web Start downloads and launches the desktop client.
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Use Web Start to download and run the desktop client