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Hi,

My use case is that I have a big video-wall in operation center and would like to display there the Event Viewer from Omnibus WebGUI so that all events can be easily shown to staff. However the setup of this videowall is quite automatic when launched and it's inpractical to login into the WebGUI each time when the browser with DASH page is opened. Is there a way to configure DASH/WebGUI so that a u/p is not required to view the page?

Regards,

Szymon

Hi, 

you can launch a page with URL directly using the page ID and an user-based token:

The URL convention is https://<FQDN>:16311/ibm/action/launch/<PageID>/<xlaunchCred>

where:

FQDN = Fully Qualified Domain Name or IP address
PageID = The Page ID of the DASH page
xlaunchCred = The user-based token generated by xlaunchapi.jar

Steps to use it:

1. Get the Page ID of the DASH page. For example, to get the Page ID of DASH About Page, open the About page and click on the "Page" icon at the top right corner and click "About". The Page ID is under "General".

2. Generate the  user-based token using xlaunchapi.jar, ensure all text in the command are all in one line as shown:
 
./java -cp /<JazzSM_HOME>/profile/installedApps/JazzSMNode01Cell/isc.ear/xlaunchapi.jar com.ibm.isc.api.xlaunch.LaunchPropertiesHelper\$Encode com.ibm.isc.xlaunch.username <username> com.ibm.isc.xlaunch.password <password>

Replace <username> and <password> with the user you want to Single Sign On.

The command will return a string like:

L2NvbS5pYm0uaXNjLnhsYXVuY2gudXNlcm5hbWUvc21hZG1pbi9jb20uaWJtLmlzYy54bGF1bmNoLnBhc3N3b3JkL29iamVjdDAw

Example, in this test user smadmin and password object00 was used in the command xlaunchapi.jar

3. Following the URL convention, https://<FQDN>:16311/ibm/action/launch/<PageID>/<xlaunchCred>, launch the DASH About Page. The page will launch without manually entering login and password.

 Example:

https://dash151.poc.ibm.com:16311/ibm/action/launch/com.ibm.isclite.ISCAdminPortlet_banner.isc.about/L2NvbS5pYm0uaXNjLnhsYXVuY2gudXNlcm5hbWUvc21hZG1pbi9jb20uaWJtLmlzYy54bGF1bmNoLnBhc3N3b3JkL29iamVjdDAw

Give it a try.

Best regards Detlef

Hi,

My use case is that I have a big video-wall in operation center and would like to display there the Event Viewer from Omnibus WebGUI so that all events can be easily shown to staff. However the setup of this videowall is quite automatic when launched and it's inpractical to login into the WebGUI each time when the browser with DASH page is opened. Is there a way to configure DASH/WebGUI so that a u/p is not required to view the page?

Regards,

Szymon

Hi Detlef,

Thank you very much for your prompt and detailed answer. This works perfectly!

Best regards,

Szymon

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Szymon Trocha
Poznańskie Centrum Superkomputerowo-Sieciowe

Original Message:
Sent: Thu July 20, 2023 02:11 AM
From: Detlef Kleinfelder
Subject: Is there a way to run public Event Viewer of Omnibus WebGUI (for big wall dashboards)?

Hi, 

you can launch a page with URL directly using the page ID and an user-based token:

The URL convention is https://<FQDN>:16311/ibm/action/launch/<PageID>/<xlaunchCred>

where:

FQDN = Fully Qualified Domain Name or IP address
PageID = The Page ID of the DASH page
xlaunchCred = The user-based token generated by xlaunchapi.jar

Steps to use it:

1. Get the Page ID of the DASH page. For example, to get the Page ID of DASH About Page, open the About page and click on the "Page" icon at the top right corner and click "About". The Page ID is under "General".

2. Generate the  user-based token using xlaunchapi.jar, ensure all text in the command are all in one line as shown:
 
./java -cp /<JazzSM_HOME>/profile/installedApps/JazzSMNode01Cell/isc.ear/xlaunchapi.jar com.ibm.isc.api.xlaunch.LaunchPropertiesHelper\$Encode com.ibm.isc.xlaunch.username <username> com.ibm.isc.xlaunch.password <password>

Replace <username> and <password> with the user you want to Single Sign On.

The command will return a string like:

L2NvbS5pYm0uaXNjLnhsYXVuY2gudXNlcm5hbWUvc21hZG1pbi9jb20uaWJtLmlzYy54bGF1bmNoLnBhc3N3b3JkL29iamVjdDAw

Example, in this test user smadmin and password object00 was used in the command xlaunchapi.jar

3. Following the URL convention, https://<FQDN>:16311/ibm/action/launch/<PageID>/<xlaunchCred>, launch the DASH About Page. The page will launch without manually entering login and password.

 Example:

https://dash151.poc.ibm.com:16311/ibm/action/launch/com.ibm.isclite.ISCAdminPortlet_banner.isc.about/L2NvbS5pYm0uaXNjLnhsYXVuY2gudXNlcm5hbWUvc21hZG1pbi9jb20uaWJtLmlzYy54bGF1bmNoLnBhc3N3b3JkL29iamVjdDAw

Give it a try.

Best regards Detlef

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Detlef KleinfelderDetlef Kleinfelder

Original Message:
Sent: Mon July 17, 2023 09:16 AM
From: Szymon Trocha
Subject: Is there a way to run public Event Viewer of Omnibus WebGUI (for big wall dashboards)?

Hi,

My use case is that I have a big video-wall in operation center and would like to display there the Event Viewer from Omnibus WebGUI so that all events can be easily shown to staff. However the setup of this videowall is quite automatic when launched and it's inpractical to login into the WebGUI each time when the browser with DASH page is opened. Is there a way to configure DASH/WebGUI so that a u/p is not required to view the page?

Regards,

Szymon

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Szymon Trocha
Poznańskie Centrum Superkomputerowo-Sieciowe
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Hi,

My use case is that I have a big video-wall in operation center and would like to display there the Event Viewer from Omnibus WebGUI so that all events can be easily shown to staff. However the setup of this videowall is quite automatic when launched and it's inpractical to login into the WebGUI each time when the browser with DASH page is opened. Is there a way to configure DASH/WebGUI so that a u/p is not required to view the page?

Regards,

Szymon