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Note: All time stamps show on web pages are based on GMT timezone
To access ASWM on a server, run your referred HTTP browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla) at a remote client host or locally at that server. Open the URL to the port of 2623 of the server's IP address or Full Qualified Domain Name (FQDN, if it has one). For example, suppose your server's IP address is 192.168.0.1, the URL would be http://192.168.0.1:2623/. If you like to connect in a secured way (in SSL), try to open the port 2624 instead. I.e., the URL would be https://192.168.0.1:2624/, and then all network interactions will be protected by the SSL protocol.
ASWM uses cookie feature of your HTTP browser to do some jobs. If your HTTP browser rejects cookies, some configuration functions of ASWM will not be complete as we described. By the way, you may use "localhost" or server's computer name, which is often seen in NetBIOS or WINS environment, in the URL. However, such an accessing approach is not recommended because it is cookie-unfriendly. In that case, browser will always turn off the cookie and you possibly will find that some configuration functions are not act as your expectation either.
 Fig. The first page on port 2623 |
 Fig. A password dialog shows up when you click either secured or non-secured entrance |
Once you connected to the non-secured port 2623. You always have a chance to choose the secured connection again. A page shows up and has two entrances that allow you to click and go into ASWM in either a non-secured (left entrance) or a secured way (right entrance). Clicking any of entrance will prompt you the login dialog. Key in the correct password and it brings the home page of ASWM to you.
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Home Page |
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At the home page, the entire view could be divided into several regions: the banner lays on the uppermost, the menu bar lays below the banner, the health panel locates on the left side and the information panel sits on the right side. Let's see what these regions can provide to you.
 Fig. The home page on a server system |
 Fig. The home page on a motherboard system |
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The Banner
It shows the trademark of ASWM, a logo of ASUSTeK, and a sequence of round buttons, which are "Discovery", "VNC Viewer", "Help", and "About". Under the ASWM's trademark, you will see the OS name and server's host name. If your system has a locator LED, it also shows a symbol there. The symbol will honestly respond to the current status of the locator LED. You can turn it on or off somewhere, which will be explained shortly. Under four round buttons, you will see a tag that tells you what the display language is that ASWM uses at present. It should be English if you do not yet make any change. ASWM is ready for multi-language environment but at the moment it only has English version. Soon ASWM will support Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Japanese.
 Fig. The banner |
The "About" button is simple, it shows up an isolated "About" window. In that window, you will see the copyright information and the ASWM's version. As we mentioned earlier, since ASWM has multiple components, you will see the version of each component. When you request ASUSTek's technical support for ASWM, you will be asked the versions here. Clicking "Help" button gives you the on-line help, which is the window now you are watching. "VNC Viewer" button brings another browser's window that will attempt to connect your VNC on that server by a specific URL. This URL is provided by VNC and it contains a Java Applet that is a sort of VNC client application. Afterward we will see how to conduct ASWM to connect your preferred VNC display correctly. Finally, "Discovery" button leads to the Discovery sub-system and we will explain how "Discovery" works for you at last.
 Fig. The about window |
 Fig. A VNC viewer connected to a Linux system. |
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The Menu
On the left side, you can see the server's model there. On the right side, you can see two menu items: "Inventory" and "Configuration".
 Fig. The menu |
Move the mouse cursor onto these two items, the subsequent pull-down menus will show up automatically. The pull-down menu will not vanished unless you click the mouse button somewhere in the entire ASWM window. Each item of pull-down menu will bring you different information panels that will be fully explained later.
 Fig. The pull-down menu of Inventory |
 Fig. The pull-down menu of Configuration |
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The Health Panel
It shows a complete list of all groups of health. Each health group has a health sign (or bulb) existed on the left side of group's title. Normally, you see nothing there because all groups are in good shapes, which means no sensor alerts. An "alert" occurs when a sensor's value exceeded its threshold values. ASWM thinks an alert as a kind of "event" so "event" and "alert" are usually interchangeable in this document. ASWM categorizes an event according to its severity. It could be a "normal" event, a "warning" event, a "critical" (or "fatal") event, a "non-recoverable" event, or a "threshold unrelated" event. A warning event or a critical event sometimes can be further classified as either "higher than high threshold values" or "lower than low threshold values".
 Fig. The menu |
Move the mouse cursor onto these two items, the subsequent pull-down menus will show up automatically. The pull-down menu will not vanished unless you click the mouse button somewhere in the entire ASWM window. Each item of pull-down menu will bring you different information panels that will be fully explained later.
 Fig. The health panel shows 8 groups in a P4C800-E system. |
 Fig. The health panel shows 9 groups health by the health sign in a AP1600R-S5 system. The "flash" sign means a critical event occurred in "Backplane 1" group. The "exclaimination" sign means a warning event occurred in "Memory" group. |
Each group's title can be clicked and then the corresponding information panel regarding to that health group will show up. We will have opportunities to acquaint them later.
The health panel has the most important duty. It is responsible for updating all dynamic (or variable) data of ASWM agent in a certain period of time at regular intervals. When the ASWM web page is started, the health panel initiates a predefined timer to do that job. This guarantees that the data coming from ASWM agent will be up to date for every five seconds by default and of course you can change it or stop it. Besides, if a health group were displayed on the information panel, the health panel would update that information panel as well for every five seconds.
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The Information Panel
This is the most important region that ASWM uses to display any detailed data such as a system's summary page, a health group, an inventory item or a configuration item. We will walk through each kind of information panel in the following sections.
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