Chapter 4.Appliance Configuration; Programs; Accessing Appliance System Manager - IBM eServer xSeries 135 Installation Manual

Chapter 4. Appliance configuration programs

Accessing Appliance System Manager

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Your IBM xSeries 135 comes with programs that you can use to configure, manage,
and maintain your appliance server. These configuration programs include:
• Appliance System Manager
Appliance System Manager enables the creation of software administrative
services that enable the delivery of solutions in a remotely managed,
unattended, closed hardware server. The main functions of this software are as
follows:
— The ability to remotely manage the appliance through the World Wide Web
— Web server
— Encryption software for use by the web server (for HTTP-S sessions)
— Software services for discovering and configuring new appliances (IBM
Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility)
• IBM Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility
The Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility aids in setting up and
reconfiguring the network configuration on your appliance server. The
Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility agent, preinstalled on your IBM
xSeries appliance, works with the Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility
console to automatically detect the presence of appliances on the network. When
the appliance server is detected by the Advanced Appliance Configuration
Utility console, use the Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility to set up and
manage the network configuration of the appliance network configuration,
including assigning the IP address, default gateway, network mask, and DNS
server to be used by the appliance.
Information about each of these appliance configuration programs follows.
Appliance System Manager is a program that you can use to configure and manage
the resources of the IBM xSeries 135 appliance server. For more information about this
application program, see the Appliance System Manager Administration Guide.
Appliance System Manager is accessed through a Web browser on a computer that
has network access to the appliance server. A system administrator can use Appliance
System Manager to change system settings and other configuration settings for the
appliance.
To access Appliance System Manager, do the following:
1. Open a browser on a computer that has network access to the appliance server.
2. Go to https://appliance_IP_address:1999 where appliance_IP_adress is the IP
address of the appliance. The appliance main page appears.
3. Click Administration.
4. Click Appliance.
5. Accept the new site certificate when prompted.
6. When prompted, type administrator for the user name and password for the
password. In the ASM Main Page , you can perform configuration tasks. See the
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