Owners Manual
General Information | Getting Started
OMNM 6.5.2 User Guide 57
General Information
The following topics provide some general information you may need to know:
•
Web Portal/Multitasking
•
Cookies and Sessions
•
Web Clients
•
Network Basics
Web Portal/Multitasking
You can open multiple tabs to different managers in the OpenManage Network Manager system. In
most cases this does not cause any issues for read–only data browsing. However,
best practice
is not
opening multiple tabs when creating, editing or deleting. These may report Web session
information incorrectly and task completion may appear to never finish. For example, you may
submit a job that appears stuck “running” when in reality it has already finished but the status has
not updated in the browser session. When this occurs, manually click the refresh button on the job
status window to force an update. The recommended process is to close the job status window and
move on to other tasks. The
My Alerts
feature in the portal’s lower left corner indicates when jobs
are complete, and you can view details from that status bar location.
Cookies and Sessions
The OpenManage Network Manager (OMNM) application stores cookies during the session. No
personal data, such as username/password is stored. The cookie stores the assigned session ID as
well as information about the current view so that the OMNM application can do partial view
updates. OMNM sessions are not persisted, they are in memory only.
Web Clients
With the minimum hardware for a 32-bit client, you can run
either
a Web client or Java client,
not
both
. You can start and stop the client without impacting the application server. Device monitoring
stops when you stop the application server or turn off its host machine. The client can also be on a
different machine than the application server.
NOTE:
See Starting Web Client on page 61 for more information about using web access to this software.
The OpenManage Network Manager (OMNM) application detects mobile devices and pads, such
as tablets and iPads. For smaller screens, the Navigation bar collapses to the left hand side and the
page only displays a single column. Some limits apply:
• Because touch devices do not support a right-click, the first time clicking a row selects it. A
repeat click launches a menu displaying the available actions. Click the menu item you want.
• All major charts are rendered as HTML 5, which are mobile-friendly. These charts are Line,
Pie, Donut, Bar and Column. Some Gauges and LED charts require flash, which is not
compatible with all mobile devices.
• Topology views are not available.