Installation manual

Chapter 8. Loading the Host On-Demand clients

The Host On-Demand clients are implemented as HTML files that you load into a

Web browser.

There are many ways users can load the clients:

v Customize your own HTML pages to launch sessions that you have configured.

You can use the Deployment Wizard to create customized pages. See

Deployment Wizard in the Host On-Demand online help for more information.

v Load the HODMain.html file, located in the /hostondemand/HOD directory, into your

browser to view links to all the available clients. You can edit the HTML file and

customize its contents to suit your users and their environment. Users won’t

need to remember the name of the client or the name of the file that is used to

load it.

v Load the full URL.

http://server_name/hod_alias/client_name.html

where server_name is the host name or IP address of the Host On-Demand

server, hod_alias is the alias (or path) of the published directory, and client_name

is the HTML file name of the client. For example:

http://name.city.yourcompany.com/hod/HOD.html

will load the default Host On-Demand Download client.

Let users know about the security warning that appears when using Host

On-Demand. The purpose of the window is to tell users that Host On-Demand

was created by International Business Machines and to ask whether they trust it.

Host On-Demand clients

Note: The following table lists the Host On-Demand default clients. These clients

use the Configuration server-based model.

Package Client HTML File

Administration Clients Administration client HODAdmin.html

Administration client cached HODAdminCached.html

Administration client cached with

problem determination

HODAdminCachedDebug.html

Emulator Clients Cached client HODCached.html

Cached client with problem

determination

HODCachedDebug.html

Download client HOD.html

Download client with problem

determination

HODDebug.html

Download client with Screen

Customizer/LE Interface

HODCustom.html

Function On-Demand client HODThin.html

Database Clients Database On-Demand client HODDatabase.html