Take full advantage of the capability that iSeries™ Navigator for Wireless provides
when you interact with Management Central. This page helps you to fully use
the functions available in Management Central.
iSeries Navigator
for Wireless does not need a PC to run, but a PC is needed to set up Management
Central. Management Central is an integral part of iSeries Navigator, the graphical interface
for iSeries servers.
You install iSeries Navigator
on the PC as a component of iSeries Access for Windows®. No additional installation
is needed. When installing iSeries Access for Windows, select iSeries Navigator from the list of available
components, and then select the components you want (Monitors, Commands).
Next, you can set up Management Central (central system, endpoint systems,
monitors, commands). To connect to Management Central from a wireless device,
your Web application server must be set up on the endpoint server you have
configured as your Management Central central system.
Because iSeries Navigator
for Wireless is a companion to Management Central, iSeries Navigator for Wireless uses endpoint
systems and monitors defined in Management Central to report status and to
monitor metric information.
Do the following tasks in Management Central
before you begin using your wireless device:
- Add endpoint systems
Add systems to your network
so that you can monitor status. Only systems defined as endpoint systems in
Management Central will show up in iSeries Navigator for Wireless. This
includes systems with integrated xSeries® servers. If you want to manage
your integrated servers on a particular system, be sure it has been added
as an endpoint system.
When all of your endpoint systems have been added,
collect inventory so information about each endpoint system is available for
you to view from iSeries Navigator.
- Create monitors
Monitors in Management Central
can be powerful. You have the flexibility to have simple or complex monitors,
to set up thresholds, and to perform automation if those thresholds occur.
The goal of iSeries Navigator
for Wireless is to keep you informed of the status of these monitors wherever
you are. Create monitors with meaningful names (but try to keep them short
or they will scroll on the wireless devices). When you give a monitor a meaningful
name, you can easily recognize it on a wireless device, and you will know
what it is monitoring for, if it has triggered, and the severity of a problem
you are looking at. With iSeries Navigator for Wireless, you can also view
metrics and values on a specific system.
- Start and stop monitors
You have the ability
to start and stop monitors from iSeries Navigator for Wireless, but if
you start them in Management Central, your monitors will be active and on
the lookout for problems, and data will have already been collected when you
access your monitors from a wireless device. Many times a problem will occur
and you will need to monitor something in more detail. If you predefine these
"troubleshooting" monitors in Management Central, you can then start them
later using iSeries Navigator
for Wireless.
- Create command definitions
You can run commands
from iSeries Navigator
for Wireless. However, entering a long command into a Internet-ready telephone
can be quite cumbersome. That is why your command definitions are also displayed
so you can run the commands in the definitions directly from iSeries Navigator
for Wireless. Create as many command definitions as you would like, but keep
the names short so you can see them on a small display.