Configuring Data Studio web console

If Data Studio web console is not already running, you can start the product and log in by using the default administrative user that you created during installation. If you upgraded your product, log in by using the default administrative user that you created during the upgrade or log in as a user with permission to access the web console.
After you log in, you must configure Data Studio web console by adding database connections. You can also optionally configure alerts for your databases and configure the product for multi-user mode.
Tip: If you upgraded an earlier version of the product, the database connections, alert settings, and user authentication settings that are stored locally or in the repository database are retained. You can configure permissions for job management, and you can add and configure alerts for new database connections as needed.

Procedure

To configure Data Studio web console.

  1. If Data Studio web console is not running, start it:
    • Linux and UNIX: From the DSWC_installation_dir/bin directory, run the command start.sh
    • Windows: From the Start menu, click All Programs > IBM Data Studio > Data Studio 4.1 Web Console > Start Web Console Server
      Note: If you installed Data Studio web console as a non-administrative user, a console window that shows the runtime status of Data Studio web console opens. If you close the console window Data Studio web console stops.
  2. Log in to the web console of the Data Studio web console:
    1. Open the web console by doing one of the following tasks:
      • Enter the following web address in a web browser:

        http://IP_address:port_number/datatools/

        The following URL is the default URLs for the Data Studio web console web console:

        • http://localhost:11086/datatools/
        • https://localhost:11087/datatools/
      • On Windows: From the Start menu, click All Programs > IBM Data Studio > Data Studio 4.1 Web Console > Web Console or Web Console (Secure) to open the web console.
    2. When prompted, enter the default administrative user login credentials. If you upgraded the product, enter the credentials of any user that has permissions to access the web console.

Results

You are logged in to the web console of Data Studio web console. If you installed a new copy of Data Studio web console you are now using the product in single-user mode. The default administrative user that you created during installation can access all of the features of the product. To use Data Studio web console with multiple users, you must configure it for multi-user mode.

What to do next

Configure Data Studio web console by performing the following tasks:
  1. Configuring Data Studio web console for multi-user mode
    To use Data Studio web console with multiple users you must configure it for multi-user mode by adding a repository database. Then, configure authentication for the users and groups of that database. The repository database is also used to store database connections, alerts and alert configuration settings, job manager settings and job history.
  2. Automatically adding database connections to Data Studio web console from the Data Studio client
    You can automatically add a database connection from the Data Studio client to the Data Studio web console when you open a web console page from the workbench.
  3. Configuring Data Studio web console alerts
    You can configure the alert types to display for each monitored database and the alert thresholds for each alert type. You do not need to configure any alerts to start using Data Studio web console. Monitoring is enabled by default for each database connection, and the product comes with default threshold settings for all alerts.
  4. Creating user-defined alert types
    In addition to the predefined alert types that are provided by the web console, you can create your own alert types.
  5. Setting the sender address of email notifications
    By default, when you have email notifications set up for alerts or jobs, the Data Studio web console sends email messages with an address in the From field that is generated from the host name or IP address of the system where the Data Studio web console is installed. You can explicitly set the sender address by editing the dswebserver.properties file.
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