SGD has the following administration tools:
Administration Console – Enables user and user session management, SGD server configuration, and the configuration of applications for SGD users
Profile Editor – Enables definition of settings for the SGD Client for the users in your organization
tarantella command – Enables control and configuration of SGD from the command line
The Administration Console and the Profile Editor are available on the webtop of SGD Administrators.
To display the Administration Console, you can use any browser that is supported by SGD, apart from Safari. See the Oracle Secure Global Desktop Administration Guide for Release 4.7 for details of the supported browsers for SGD. The browser must have the JavaScript programming language enabled.
The Administration Console works best when you run it on the primary SGD server in the array.
To start the Administration Console, you click the link on the webtop.
If you want to run the Administration Console without displaying the webtop, you can run it from the following locations:
https://
and click the Launch the Secure Global Desktop Administration
Console link
server.example.com
https://
server.example.com
/sgdadmin
where server.example.com
is the
name of an SGD server.
If you run the Administration Console without displaying a webtop, you are prompted to log in as an SGD Administrator.
When you log in to the Administration Console, the Administration Console opens in Navigation View, as shown in Figure 3.9, “The Administration Console in Navigation View”.
Navigation View is the top-level view that enables you to access the tabs for managing the different areas of SGD. The following table summarizes the tabs available in Navigation View and what they are used for.
Tab | Description |
---|---|
Secure Global Desktop Servers | Managing and configuring SGD servers. This tab is described in more detail in Section 3.6, “Managing SGD”. |
Sessions | Managing users' SGD sessions and application sessions. This tab is described in more detail in Section 3.6.2, “Monitoring Users”. |
User Profiles | Managing and configuring users' SGD settings. This tab is described in more detail in Section 3.4, “Creating Users”. |
Applications | Managing and configuring the applications that users can run through SGD. This tab is described in more detail in Section 3.5, “Adding Applications to Webtops”. |
Application Servers | Managing and configuring the application servers that run the applications displayed through SGD. This tab is described in more detail in Section 3.5, “Adding Applications to Webtops”. |
Global Settings | Configuring settings that apply to SGD as a whole. This tab is described in more detail in Section 3.6, “Managing SGD”. |
Caches | Managing the application server passwords that SGD has stored. |
SGD is built on the following principles of directory services:
Users, applications, and application servers are represented by objects in a directory. The objects are organized into an organizational hierarchy representing your organization.
Different types of object have different configuration settings, known as attributes.
The relationships between objects are important and have meanings.
Each object is identified using a unique name.
SGD includes a number of different object types. When you select an object to work with, the Administration Console changes to Object View. The Administration Console provides links to enable you to switch between Object View and Navigation View, and also an Object History that enables you to switch between the objects you have recently worked with, as shown in Figure 3.10, “The Administration Console Navigation Links”.
When using the Administration Console, do not use the browser's Back button. Instead, use the navigation links to move between pages in the Administration Console.
The User Profiles, Applications, and Application Servers tabs are divided into two sections. On the left is the navigation tree and on the right is the content area, as shown in Figure 3.11, “The Navigation Tree and Content Area”. The navigation tree only shows the container objects that are used to structure your organizational hierarchy. As you browse and select objects in the navigation tree, the content area displays a list of objects contained in the selected object.
Several of the tabs and screens in the Administration Console have a search field. The search is case insensitive and accepts only the * wildcard character. The search results are displayed in a table and are limited to a maximum of 150 hits.
Most tabs in the Administration Console present information in tables. Often the information in a table cell is a link that can be clicked to display further information.
The tarantella command is a script installed
in the
directory. By default, install-dir
/bininstall-dir
is
/opt/tarantella
. As this script is not on
the standard PATH
, you must use the full path
each time you run the command, or change to
/opt/tarantella/bin
before running the
command. Alternatively, do the following:
Add /opt/tarantella/bin
to the
PATH
, for example:
PATH=$PATH:/opt/tarantella/bin; export
PATH
Create an alias, for example:
alias t=/opt/tarantella/bin/tarantella
The tarantella command is actually a family of commands, each of which can have its own set of subcommands. You always run the subcommands through the tarantella command, for example:
# tarantella config list
Help is available for every command by using the
--help
command-line argument.
Many commands are designed so that you can build scripts around them.
The following restrictions apply as to which users can use particular tarantella commands:
Commands that control the SGD server and SGD web server can be run only by superuser (root)
Commands for creating and managing arrays of SGD servers can be run only by SGD Administrators
All other commands can be run by any user in the
ttaserv
group
Use the usermod -G
command
to make a user a member of the ttaserv
group.
The ttaserv
group does not have to be the
user's primary or effective group.