Administering HATS applications

The HATS Administration Console enables the system administrator to view sessions initiated for HATS applications. The panels in HATS administration display license usage information and session information for applications included in an .ear file. Each application in an .ear file includes files to support HATS administration.

To start HATS Administration Console, enter the following URL in your Web browser:

http://localhost/appname/HATSAdmin/admin.jsp

where localhost is the hostname or IP address of the machine where your HATS applications are deployed, and appname is the name of an application in the .ear file.

More than one HATS Administration Console can be started using different application names included in an .ear file. The panel information in each console displays the same license usage and session information for the set of applications contained in the .ear file. The session information can be sorted by application name, connection identifier, or communication status by clicking the headings above the session information. On this panel, you can shut down one or more connections being used by the HATS applications included in the .ear file. You should encourage your end users to click Disconnect to terminate their session rather than simply closing the browser window, because sessions stay active for 30 minutes when not terminated properly. This invalidation timeout value is set in WebSphere Application Server (WAS).

HATS Administration Console is bound to WebSphere security. If WebSphere security is active on WAS, and the URL to start HATS Administration Console is entered in a browser, the page is redirected to a HATS Administration Console login authentication page. You must enter the user ID and password for the WAS security server before HATS Administration Console can be started.

If WebSphere is running in a cloned environment, HATS Administration Console does not display all the connections for all clones. To display the connections for a specific clone, enter the following URL in your Web browser:

http://localhost/appname/HATSAdmin/selectclone.jsp

where localhost is the hostname or IP address of the machine where your HATS applications are deployed, and appname is the name of an application in the .ear file. This Web page enables you to select the clone for which you want to view information. To specify the individual clone, you need to know the session ID value of the connection for an end user. You need to request that information from the end user. The end user can find the session ID by viewing the source of their application Web page, and searching for the following string:

<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="SESSIONID" VALUE="value" />

where value appears like 0000YGDDXENHPWS3XANVO2LUR3Y:tu3bu7f3. Ignore the 0000 in the value. The YGDDXENHPWS3XANVO2LUR3Y is the connection identifier, and the tu3bu7f3 is the clone ID.

When you receive the value from your end user, insert it into the Session ID field of the of selectclone.jsp page and click Submit to display the HATS Administration Console for the specific clone.