About Actuate Information Console
Actuate Information Console is a web application that supports accessing and working with report information using a web browser. Web developers and designers use Actuate Information Console’s industry-standard technology to design custom e.reporting web applications that meet business information delivery requirements.
Actuate Information Console technology is platform independent and customizable. By separating user interface design from content generation, Information Console ensures that reporting web application development tasks can proceed simultaneously and independently. You deploy Actuate Information Console on a network with Actuate BIRT iHub. Information Console accesses and stores documents on an Encyclopedia volume managed by iHub. Actuate Information Console technology is also scalable and supports clustering. On a Windows system, the default context root for Information Console is C:\Program Files\Actuate\iPortal2\iportal for Information Console installed separately or C:\Program Files\Actuate\iHub2\servletcontainer\iportal for Information Console embedded in the BIRT iHub application. On a UNIX‑based system, the default context root for Information Console is $Home/iPortal2/iportal for Information Console installed separately or $Home/iHub2/servletcontainer/iportal for Information Console embedded in the BIRT iHub application.
Actuate Information Console technology includes the following features:
JavaServer Pages (JSPs) support creating HTML or XML pages that combine static web page templates with dynamic content.
Distributing requests to multiple Actuate BIRT iHub machines in an Actuate BIRT iHub System cluster balances server loads.
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) standards provide plain text transmission of XML using HTTP.
Actuate Information Delivery API supports direct communication between the pages’ custom tags and Actuate BIRT iHub.
The full range of authentication and authorization functionality that Actuate BIRT iHub provides is available.
Secure HTTP (HTTPS) supports secure information transfer on the web.
Licensed options on BIRT iHub provide additional functionality. To use these options on a BIRT iHub System, the BIRT iHub System must be licensed for the options. For example, to use browser-based tools, such as BIRT Interactive Viewer or BIRT Data Analyzer, the BIRT iHub requires the appropriate license options.
The BIRT 360 option for BIRT iHub is required to use dashboard and gadget files. If these options are not available, users cannot open dashboards or gadgets in Information Console.