Console preferences settings

Specifies whether you want the administrative console workspace to refresh automatically after the administrative configuration changes.

The default is for the workspace to refresh automatically. If you delete a WebSphere® variable, for example, the WebSphere variables page refreshes automatically and shows the updated list of WebSphere variables in the WebSphere variables collection.

An example follows with workspace automatic refresh turned on and two users logged in to the console at the same time. If the first user deletes a mail provider from the collection without saving his changes, the second user does not see the changes. The first user must save the changes. Then the second user must refresh the collection panel on his own console to see the changes. However, if the automatic refresh is not on, then the second user will not see the deletion of the mail provider on the collection panel until after he logs out and logs back in.

Specifies whether the confirmation dialog is displayed after a request is received to discard the workspace. The default is to display confirmation dialogs.

Specifies whether the default scope is the administrative console node.

All scopes is the default unless you enable the Use default scope setting to make the administrative console node the default. Whatever the default is the first time that you view a console panel that has scope settings, that is the default for the panel on subsequent visits that you make to the panel. The default for the panel does not change even if you modify the Use default scope setting.

Specifies whether the help portlet on the console displays.

Specifies whether to send Java™ Management Extensions (JMX) notifications that contain command assistance data from the administrative console. Enablement of the notifications allows integration with product tools such as the Toolkit Jython editor for WebSphere Application Server. Enablement of this option is recommended for non-production environments only.