ACCESS GATEWAY
52 System Administration
Using the Web Management Interface (WMI)
The Web Management Interface (WMI) is a “graphical” version of the Command Line
Interface, comprised of HTML files. The HTML files are embedded in the Access Gateway
and are dynamically linked to the system’s functional command sets. You can access the WMI
from any Web browser.
To connect to the Web Management Interface, do the following:
1. Establish a connection to the Internet.
2. Open your Web browser.
3. Enter the network interface IP address of the Access Gateway (set up during the
installation process).
4. Log in as usual (supplying your user name and password).
To access any menu item from the WMI, simply click on the item you want. The corresponding
work screen then appears in the right side frame. From here you can control the features and
settings related to your selection. Although the appearance is very different from the Command
Line Interface, the information displayed to you is basically the same. The only difference
between the two interfaces is in the method used for making selections and applying your
changes (selections are checkable boxes, and applying your changes is achieved by pressing
the
Submit button). Pressing the Reset button resets the screen to its previous state (clearing
all your changes without applying them).
Using an SNMP Manager
Once the SNMP communities are established, you can connect to the Access Gateway via the
Internet using an SNMP client manager (for example, HP OpenView). SNMP is the standard
protocol used in the Network Management (NM) system. This system contains two primary
elements:
Manager – The console (client) through which system administrators perform
network management functions.
Agent – An SNMP-compliant device which stores data about itself in a Management
Information Base (MIB). The Access Gateway is an example of such a device.
The Access Gateway contains managed objects that directly relate to its current operational
state. These objects include hardware configuration parameters and performance statistics.
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