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Basics

The Web Manager uses a predefined startup configuration to listen on a set of endpoints to be accessible from a web browser.
In order to access the Web Manager in a secure manner via HTTPS, the application also uses an automatically generated certificatenetwork configuration specifies:

  • http and https ports for the Web Manager application
  • http and https ports for web-base visualizations
  • the used certificate for https connections

The certificate for https connection can either be automatically generated or provided by the integrator.

IP addresses / host names

The Web Manager always listens on the following IP addresses and host names:

  • localhost
  • 127.0.0.1
  • Computer name (for example e.g. john-pc)
  • Full computer name (for example e.g. john-pc.company.com, in case your computer is part of a domain)
  • All available IP addresses (for example e.g. 172.16.1.150)

Ports

To avoid conflicts with other web applications on the same machine, the Web Manager uses the following ports by default:

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The default TCP ports are

Application

HTTP

HTTPS

Web Manager2100021001
Web Visualization80443

Emerging URLs

For each pair of IP address/host name and port, the Web Manager listens on the http port as well as on the https port using the respective protocol.
Remember Always make sure to always use the http protocol with the regular part and the https protocol in combination with the secure port and vice versa. The URLs are concatenated as follows: <http|https>://<ip|host>:<port|secureport>

Find out which URLs are being used on your machine

Some examples are:

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Advanced

Note

Please note that the Web Manager needs to be restarted for any changes to take effect.


If you wish to To use different ports or a custom certificate to access the web managerWeb Manager, you can change the configuration file accordingly.

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Ports

If you want to access the Web Manager or Visualization on different ports, just change them accordingly

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using the Service Control application.

Certificate

As mentioned in the basic setup above, the Web Manager uses an automatically generated certificate by default in order to access the Web Manager using https.
However, if you want to use a custom certificate for the web managerWeb Manager, for example when accessing the Web Manager externally, change do the configuration as followsfollowing:

  • To import a certificate or determine where a certificate you want to use is located, open the windows certificate manager (Press the windows key or click the windows button in the taskbar, enter "certmgr" and  and open the certificate manager)



  • Select the desired store (for example Personal\Certificates)



  • Double click the certificate you want to use (for example localhost)
  • Select the "Details" tab and note the subject name of the certificate.



  • Open the configuration file file <install-dir>\WebManager\global_config\config.xml and remove the start and end of the comment ("<!–" and "-->") in the certificate section so that it looks like this:



  • Use "storename" and "subject" to point to the certificate you just opened.
  • As "storename", use the identifier of the certificate's store (For for example " My" is the identifier of the store Personal\Certificates), which can be one of the following:
    Have a look at Refer to the official documentation to learn more about this topic.

Help

How do I find out my IP address(es)?

  • Open a command line window (Press the windows key or click the windows button in the taskbar, enter "cmd" and open the command prompt)
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    Type "ipconfig" and press enter, then note the "IPv4 Address" (in this case "172.16.1.150")
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  • The IP address for each interface is shown in the resepctive IPv4 Address line.

How do I find out my computer name?

  • Press and hold the windows Windows key, then press the "pausePause" key => the system configuration opens, note . Note the computer name and the full computer name:

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How do I find out all URLs the Web Manager is listening on?

  • Have a look at Open the Web Manager log fileIn the insallation folder of BMS Platform 2018 (usually . In a typical installation this is C:\Program Files (x86)\NETxAutomation\BMS .Platform.2018), open the folder Platform\WebManager\log_filesOpen the file \nxaWebManagerLog.txt.
  • Scroll to the top and look out for log entires similar to this, these are the listener URLs of Web Manager and Web Visualization:those shown below