Owner's Manual

Getting Started
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ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200
• Unified View — You can scale your NMS200 installation to handle the largest, most
complex environments with distributed deployment. Consult the Installation Guide for
more about installing distributed, and even high availability systems.
• Finally do not n
eglect what Common Setup Tasks on page 28 describes.
Installation and Startup
Application server produces the NMS200 information for web clients. It monitors devices, and
produces the output which the web server then makes available for those web clients.
CAUTION:
To manage Windows systems—in single server deployments, you must
install this application on a Windows host. In distributed deployments, a
mediation server installed on Windows must communicate to managed
Windows systems.
Windows installation also installs Internet Information Services (IIS)—
formerly called Internet
Information Server. That installation does not turn
IIS on by default. Do not enable IIS on the host(s) running NMS200.
Also: do not install if you are logged in as user “admin.”
Installation and startup include:
• Running the installer, responding to its prompts.
•
Starting application server. In Windows, you can use the Start button (Start >
Redcell > Start application server), or type
startappserver in a command shell, or
right-click the server manager tray icon and select Start if you have installed NMS200 as
a service and that icon is red, not green.
•
Starting web server. You can use the Start button (Start > Redcell > Synergy
Manager), or right click th
e web server’s tray icon to start it. You can also double-click this
icon and automate web server startup.
• Starting the Client.
After starting the web server, open a browser and go to the web
address
hostname:8080 where hostname is the name of the machine running
application server (or it’s IP address).
• Start using NMS200 as summarized in Getting S
tarted on page 15, or below.
Starting Web Client
You can also open the client user interface in a browser. See Supported Web Browsers on
page 12. The URL is
http://[application server hostname or IP address]:8080