The following section describes logging in to Visualization Platform as the default user, Administrator, as a user having no home folder, and how to log in to access a volume other than Default Volume.
How to log in to Visualization Platform
1 Open a web browser. In the address bar, type the following URL:
http://localhost:8700/iportal
2 The first time you log in, log in as the default volume administrator user, Administrator, accessing the Default Volume. On Account Login, in Username, type Administrator. Leave Password blank, as shown in Figure 1‑1.
Figure 1‑1 Logging in to Visualization Platform as Administrator
The list of files and folders in the Administrator home folder appears. The list contains Examples, an HTML document giving an overview of the sample design and document files that the default volume contains, as shown in Figure 1‑2.
Figure 1‑2 Viewing the Administrator home folder
Logging in as a user with no home folder
By default, Administrator has a home folder in Visualization Platform, /Home/administrator, as shown in Figure 1‑2. When a user having a home folder logs in to Visualization Platform, the list of files and folders in that user's home folder appears. If a user does not have a home folder, the list of files and folders in the volume root folder, named Documents, appears, as shown in Figure 1‑3. The volume administrator can create a home folder for a user when creating the user.
Figure 1‑3 Logging in as a user that does not have a home folder
Accessing a volume other than Default Volume
To access a different volume, type the volume name, a backslash, and the user name in Username when logging in to Visualization Platform. For example, in Figure 1‑4, Administrator is logging in to Visualization Platform accessing sales_volume.
Figure 1‑4 Logging in to Visualization Platform accessing sales_volume
Understanding volumes and users
In System Console, the system administrator creates a cluster typically consisting of two or more machines, or nodes. Then, the system administrator can create one or more volumes in the cluster.
If the system administrator has enabled e-mail notification and specifies a volume administrator e-mail address when creating a volume, BIRT iHub creates a password with which to access the volume when it is created. Then, BIRT iHub e-mails the password to the volume administrator. The volume administrator accesses the volume by logging in to Visualization Platform using the following credentials:
Username: <volume name>\administrator
Password: <volume password BIRT iHub creates and e-mails to the volume administrator>
Only the BIRT iHub default user, Administrator, can access a newly created volume. When logging in to Visualization Platform, the user name is not case-sensitive.
If the system administrator does not specify a volume administrator e-mail address when creating a volume, BIRT iHub does not create a password. The volume administrator can access the volume without using a password, logging in to Visualization Platform using the following credentials:
Username: <volume name>\administrator
Password: (blank)
In Visualization Platform, the administrator can choose My Profile to create a password for the volume.
Users are specific to a volume. A newly created volume has no users except the default user, Administrator. The Administrator user logs in to Visualization Platform, specifying the volume. Then, the Administrator user can create one or more users of the volume. One user can access only one volume, but the administrator can create a user having the same name and password on any number of volumes.
Username: <volume name>\administrator