VMware View Manager 4.5 Admin Manual page 11

Table 1-1. View Administrator Navigation and Display Features
View Administrator Feature
Navigating backward and forward in
View Administrator pages.
Multicolumn sorting
Selecting View objects and displaying
View object details
Expanding dialog boxes to view details
Troubleshooting Access to View Administrator Without a Secure SSL Connection
You cannot log in to View Administrator through a Web browser when the SSL setting for your View clients
is not consistent with the URL you use to connect to View Administrator. If you deselect the SSL setting, you
cannot use
https
Problem
The URL that you use to log in to View Administrator no longer works. A connection failure occurs.
Cause
By default, View Manager uses SSL to create secure connections between View clients and View Connection
Server. This setting also applies to computers that connect to View Administrator through a Web browser.
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Description
Click the Back button in the upper left corner of a View Administrator page to
go to the previously displayed View Administrator page. Click the Forward
button to return to the current page.
Do not use your browser's Back button. This button displays the View
Administrator log-in page.
You can sort View objects in a variety of ways by using multicolumn sorting.
Click a heading in the top row of a View Administrator table to sort the View
objects in alphabetical order based on that heading.
For example, in the Inventory > Desktops page, you can click Pool to sort
desktops by the pools that contain them.
The number 1 appears next to the heading to indicate that it is the primary
sorting column. You can click the heading again to reverse the sorting order,
indicated by an up or down arrow.
To sort the View objects by a secondary item, Ctrl+click another heading.
For example, in the Desktops table, you can click Users to perform a secondary
sort by users to whom the desktops are dedicated. A number 2 appears next to
the secondary heading. In this example, desktops are sorted by pool and by users
within each pool.
You can continue to Ctrl+click to sort all the columns in a table in descending
order of importance.
Press Ctrl+Shift and click to deselect a sort item.
For example, you might want to display the desktops in a pool that are in a
particular state and are stored on a particular datastore. You can click Inventory
> Pools, click the pool ID, click the Datastore heading, and Ctrl+click the Status
heading.
In View Administrator tables that list View objects, you can select an object or
display object details.
To select an object, click anywhere in the object's row in the table. At the top
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of the page, menus and commands that manage the object become active.
To display object details, double-click the left cell in the object's row. A new
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page displays the object's details.
For example, on the Inventory > Pools page, click anywhere in an individual
pool's row to activate commands that affect the pool.
Double-click the Pool ID cell in the left column to display a new page that
contains details about the pool.
You can expand View Administrator dialog boxes to view details such as
desktop names and user names in table columns.
To expand a dialog box, place your mouse over the dots in the lower right corner
of the dialog box and drag the corner.
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Chapter 1 Configuring View Connection Server
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