1.5.3 Enabling the Web browser for the NNMi console
Before you sign on to NNMi, make sure that the Web browser is configured to interact with the NNMi console. The following items must be enabled in the Web browser on each client machine that will access the NNMi management server:
JavaScript
Pop-up windows from the NNMi management server
Cookies from the NNMi management server
ActiveX
Automatic page loading
Below are Web browser configuration examples.
- Important
To complete the procedures below, you need to know the fully qualified domain name of the NNMi management server.
If your NNMi management server has more than one domain name, NNMi chooses one during the installation process. To determine which fully qualified domain name NNMi is using, run the nnmofficialfqdn.ovpl script. See the nnmofficialfqdn.ovpl Reference Page for more information.
- Organization of this subsection
(1) Mozilla Firefox
JavaScript is enabled by default in Mozilla Firefox. Privacy extensions are required to disable JavaScript. If an error is displayed in NNMi indicating that JavaScript is disabled, check the Extensions options in Add-ons Manager in Firefox to determine whether the privacy extensions are being used.
Enable pop-up windows by the following procedure:
a. In Mozilla Firefox, click Tools, and then choose Options.
b. Click Content.
c. Select the Block pop-up windows check box.
d. Click Exceptions located next to the Block pop-up windows check box.
e. Add the fully qualified domain name of the NNMi management server to the list of allowed sites, and then click Allow.
f. Click Close.
Enable cookies by the following procedure:
a. In Mozilla Firefox, click Tools, and then choose Options.
b. Click Privacy.
c. Move to History, and then select Remember history.
Restart the Web browser.