Administrator settings

Admin control parameters

The web.properties file must be created in the HOD publish directory by an Administrator with the following parameters :
  • clientRefreshInterval=1
  • QuickConnectByAdmin=true
  • enableStatusBarForAll=true
  • isStatusBarEditableByAdmin=true

Sample path to HOD Publish directory:

C:\Program Files\IBM\HostOnDemand\HOD\web.properties

(i) ClientRefreshInterval parameter for Set Refresh Interval Globally:

This parameter needs to be defined in the web.propertiesfile

(ii) QuickConnectByAdmin parameter for Quick-Connect feature:

Users without credentials and configured page, can connect to sessions and use the product as a trial version, by using the Quick-Connect feature in HOD Hex Client.
  • For Config-based model, Users can navigate to Quick-Connect, by clicking on ‘Continue as Guest’ option in the Login Page.
  • For HTML and Combined-based models, the Quick-Connect page will be displayed if a User enters an invalid page name or attempts to launch an unconfigured page.
  • Administrators can enable/disable the quick-connect option by setting the QuickConnectByAdmin parameter in the web.propertiesfile to True or False respectively.
  • If the QuickConnectByAdmin parameter is set to True, Users will be able to see the quick-connect option to launch a session.
  • If the QuickConnectByAdmin parameter is set to False, the quick-connect option will not be shown. Instead, a message will be displayed on the page as You do not have permission to use Quick-connect to launch sessions. Contact the System Administrator to enable this feature.
Following are the parameters to be filled in the Quick-Connect page,
  • Session Type, Destination Port
  • Protocol (Telnet), Destination Address
Screen Size, Workstation ID for 5250
  • TN3270E
  • LU Name for 3270
  • Host code page to establish plain host connection.

(iii) enableStatusBarForAll and isStatusBarEditableByAdmin parameters for Control Status Bar:

Unlike previous versions of HOD Hex Client, where the Status Bar was editable for all Users by default, from version 1.10 onwards, the Administrator can control the Status Bar for clients by setting a global value for the Control Status Bar. The Admin can use isStatusBarEditableByAdminandenableStatusBarForAllparameters in the web.propertiesfile to set the global value. Valid values for these parameters are True/False.

For Example:

isStatusBarEditableByAdmin = true

enableStatusBarForAll = false

  • If the parameter isStatusBarEditableByAdmin is set to True by the Admin and if enableStatusBarForAll is also True, then the Status Bar gets enabled for all Users and this option underSettings panel->Preferenceswill be inactive. The Users will not be able to modify the parameter at the Client side.
  • If the parameterisStatusBarEditableByAdminis set to False by the Admin, then the option under Settings panel->Preferenceswill be active, andthe value assigned to enableStatusBarForAllparameter in theweb.propertiesfile is enabled.Users will be able to modify the parameter at the Client side.
    • For Config-based model, the modified values will be saved in the config file.
    • For HTML-based and Combined-based models, the changes are saved to the browser cache.
    • Modified values will remain only until the browser history gets cleared for all the users.
  • If the parameter is not set by the Admin, by default, the Status Bar will be editable for all Users.