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How to Install and Configure OPSLOG WebView

The OPSLOG WebView client/server application lets you view OPSLOG messages from a PC workstation. The client side runs as a Java application launched from Microsoft Internet Explorer. This application downloads and installs automatically.

You install two components on your z/OS system to run the server side of OPSLOG WebView:

• A web application on a z/OS HTTP server (such as the IBM WebSphere product)
• A server application on the same z/OS system where CA OPS/MVS is running

Note: You install the server application on the production system where CA OPS/MVS is running. However, you can install the web application on a system that is not running CA OPS/MVS.

Install a server on at least one system in your complex, and you can use MSF to access the other systems. We recommend that you install a server on two or more systems in your installation, so that a single system outage does not close all WebView access. Running a server does not preclude MSF access. You can run a server on every system and still access systems using MSF. Access through MSF is slightly slower than direct access through a server, but it is easier to access through MSF for a short time, than it is to log off one server and connect to another server.

Follow these steps:

1. Follow the resource checklist.
2. Define the configuration options.
3. Define the SSL communications.
4. Configure the web application.
5. Configure the server application.
6. Complete the post-installation tasks:
   1. Access the OPSLOG WebView interface.
   2. Start OPSLOG WebView for the first time.
   3. Operate the OPSLOG WebView server.