Welcome to IBM Host On-Demand Version 7 Help Help is available from all IBM Host On-Demand windows. You can access help in these ways: ● Click Help in a window. ● Click Table of Contents or Index from the host session Help menu. ● Click the question mark located on the top, right corner of the Administration window. Click any topic in the navigation area to the left to locate information by keywords. See Planning, Installing, and Configuring Host On-Demand for basic steps to configuring and starting Host On-Demand. When you see this icon in the The associated information: help: Returns to welcome screen and displays this information (how to use help). Applies only to the Host On-Demand server. Supplements important points in the main text. Provides hints to help apply the techniques and procedures described in the main text. Specifically relates to Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory service. Basic Configuration Steps After installing Host On-Demand, you'll need to configure Host On-Demand sessions for your users. To do this, you need to create HTML files that define how users access session configuration information. You can use the Deployment Wizard to do this. See Configuring Host On-Demand emulator clients for information on using the Deployment Wizard to create HTML pages to launch Host On-Demand sessions. Configuring the Host On-Demand Configuration Server If you are using the configuration server-based model or the combined model to create HTML pages in the Deployment Wizard, you must configure sessions on the configuration server. The configuration server is configured through the Administration Utility. Complete the following steps to define sessions in the configuration server: 1. Open the Administration Utility. On Windows NT, 2000, or XP, click Start > Programs > IBM Host On-Demand > Administration > Administration Utility (or click the link above). On other platforms, open HODAdmin.html in the HOD directory. You can open the Administrator window from any computer that has access to the Host On-Demand server. 2. Logon. The default user ID is admin and the password is password. 3. Change your administrator password. For security reasons, you should change the default administrator password. 1. Click the Users/Groups. 2. Right-click admin from the User List, and click Properties. 3. Type the new password in the New Password box, and Confirm Password fields. 4. Click OK. At this point, you may want to enable Host On-Demand to use Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), which allows for information sharing between Host On-Demand servers. For instructions on how to setup and use this optional feature, click here. 4. Add groups. Host sessions can be defined for groups. Using groups can significantly reduce administration effort as all sessions defined for the group are available to all user IDs in the group. 1. Click New Group. 2. Type the Group ID. The first character must be a letter and you can use only A-Z, a-z, 0-9, . (period), and - (hyphen). Group IDs are converted to uppercase characters. Group IDs are not converted to uppercase when you are using LDAP. 3. Optionally, type a description of the group. Any character is allowed except | (vertical bar) or # (number or pound sign). 4. Optionally, select the users who are to be members of the group from the Not a member of list. If you are using LDAP, select the parent group from the Subgroup of list. 5. Click Add. If you are using LDAP, skip this step. 6. Click Apply. Repeat steps 3 - 7 if you want to create another group. 7. Click Close when you finish. 5. Add users. This step is only necessary if you are using the configuration server-based model. Each user must have an ID to log on to Host On-Demand. This step describes how to create a user ID for each user. Optionally, if your users log on to a Windows domain, you can have the configuration server automatically create IDs for them based on their Windows usernames. This option is available through the Deployment Wizard, and does not require that you follow these steps to create user IDs. 1. Click New User. 2. Type the User ID. You can use only A-Z, a-z, 0-9, . (period), and - (hyphen). User IDs are converted to lowercase characters. IDs must be unique. You cannot have a user ID and a group ID that are the same, even if one is in lower case and the other is in upper. User IDs are not converted to lowercase when you are using LDAP. 3. Optionally, type a description of the user. Any character is allowed except | (vertical bar) and # (number or pound sign). 4. Optionally, type a password and confirm it. Any character is allowed. 5. Select one or more groups for the new user from the Member of list. A user must be a member of at least one group. If you are using LDAP, a user can be a member of only one group. 6. If you do not want the user to change the password, click User cannot change password. 7. Click Apply. Repeat steps 2 - 7 if you want to create another user account. 8. Click Close when you finish. To allow users to create accounts for themselves or for other users, check Allow users to create accounts on the Users/Groups window. 6. Configure host sessions for users and groups. 7. Right-click the user or group for whom you want to create a session and select Sessions. 8. In the Configure box, click the display or printer session you want to create. 9. On each tab, type or select the required information. Check Lock to prevent users from changing the associated value. When this box is checked, users see a field value, but cannot change it. 10. Click OK. 11. To change the session's runtime properties, such as keyboard mapping, colors, or macros, right-click the session and select Start Session. Make the changes as a user would customize his session. You can only change the session's runtime properties if you downloaded the Full administration client. For more information about the Full administration client, see Administration clients. Depending on your environment, you may also need to configure additional services in the configuration server. To learn more about these features, click the following links: Firewalls Security LDAP Database On-Demand Redirector License use count or license use management Logging on as an administrator To log on for the first time after the initial installation: 1. Type the default user ID: admin. 2. Type the default password: password. 3. Click Log On. If you have logged on before, enter the current user ID and password. The system administrator can: ● Perform local or remote administration of the Host On-Demand Server. ● Configure, start, stop, and run traces of the Redirector or other services. ● Create and manage group and user accounts to control access to Host On-Demand and Database On-Demand. ● Create, change and delete host-session configurations for groups and users. ● Configure Host On-Demand to use Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) to store user, group and session configuration data. ● Select the server to use for license usage reporting. ● Change the administrator's user ID and password. ● View the message-logs and traces of host sessions and the Redirector. Managing users and groups To manage users and groups, select Users/Groups in the Administration window. As an administrator, you can create accounts for users or allow users to create accounts. The Users/Groups window enables you to manage user and group accounts for Host On-Demand and Database On-Demand. A tree view of the defined groups and users is displayed. To see the members of a group, select the group. To see only certain members of a group, use the filter by removing the check mark from Disable User Filter. Once the filter is enabled, the Filter window appears when you select a group. Choose to display all users in a group or only users matching the specified filter. For example, to display all users with IDs that begin with an L, enter L* in the UserID field and click Filter. Right-click a user or group and select a task from the list. Creating a group Configuring a host session for a user or group Creating a user account and adding the user to a group Copying a user or group Changing a user's or a group's account Deleting a user or group Viewing a trace of a user's session Changing the administrator user ID and password Enabling users to create their own accounts Managing accounts Access to Host On-Demand and Database On-Demand function is managed according to user and group accounts. User accounts contain specific information regarding a particular user, including the user's ID, password, description, group membership, database statements, and the host sessions that will be available to the user or group. By defining a group account, you can apply access settings to all users assigned to the group, making user management more efficient and more flexible. In this way, a host session can be defined once for a group and then made available to the group's members. Of course, a host session can still be defined for an individual user, in addition to sessions already defined for the user's group. As an administrator, you can: ● Create, change, copy, and delete users and groups ● Allow users to create new user accounts ● Define host sessions for users and groups ● View trace information for users User accounts User accounts provide password-protected access to Host On-Demand and Database On-Demand.