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Accessing JReport Server via a Web Browser

Logging onto the server console locally

Logging onto the server console by URL

Additional login channel for admin users

Logging off JReport Server

JReport Server is accessible through a web browser such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Google Chrome. JReport Server console provides a unified UI for end users and administrators to access and manage server resources depending on authorization. End users can perform report related tasks such as running and creating reports and dashboards, starting visual analysis, customizing their own server preferences and so on. Administrators can perform administrative tasks such as managing security and databases, configuring the server, setting up cluster and so on.

Logging onto the server console locally

To access the JReport Server console from the same machine on which JReport Server is installed, take the following steps:

1. After JReport Server is started, a welcome page is automatically displayed in your default web browser, prompting you to provide your user name and password as assigned by your administrator. When the server is Organization enabled and your user account belongs to an organization, you need to also specify the correct organization name. The default organization name System means that the login user does not belong to any organizations. To have your login information remembered, check Remember Me.

   

2. Click LOGIN, the JReport Server console home page is displayed which can be the Start Page, the Console page, or a dashboard depending on the Home Page setting in the server profile.

   The Start Page is the default home page of the JReport Server console. It provides quick entries to some key functions. Choose a topic to start your work on the server.

   

   Option	Description
   How To
   Feature Guide	Displays the guide about JReport's main features.
   Demo	Displays dashboards and reports demos.
   Webinar	Goes to JReport webinar web page.
   Tutorial	Displays the JReport Tutorial guide.
   Create
   Dashboard	Creates a dashboard.
   Web Report	Creates a web report.
   Page Report	Creates a page report.
   Open
   My Folder	Opens the My Reports folder in the JReport Server console.
   Public Folder	Opens the Public Reports folder in the JReport Server console.
   Manage
   My Profile	Opens the server console > My Profile > Customize Server Preferences page for configuring the server profile settings of your own.
   Schedule	Schedules a task to run a report.
   Administration	Opens the server console > Administration > Configuration > Advanced page for managing the server advanced resources. Available to administrators only.
   Others
   User name	Shows the name of the current login user.
   	Logs out the server.
   User's Guide	Displays the JReport Server User's Guide.
   Knowledge Base	Goes to the JReport Knowledge Base to seek help.
   Jinfonet Home Page	Goes to the Jinfonet Software Home Page.
   Contact Support	Goes to JReport support center.
   Do not show this page at start up	If checked, the JReport Server console home page will be changed from the Start Page to the server console when the server starts next time. You can display the Start Page by clicking the Start Page button on the system toolbar of the server console.

Logging onto the server console by URL

Sometimes you may have closed the Start Page or server console while the local server remains started, or you are accessing the server console from a remote computer, you can access it by URL as follows:

1. Open a web browser and set the URL to http://IP_or_HostName_or_DomainName:port (by default the port for accessing the server console is 8888).

   If you don't know the IP address of the machine on which the server runs, and it is the same machine where you are going to log in, you can use localhost instead of the IP address. You can also open a console window such as telnet on the server machine and type hostname to get the name of the host.

2. In the welcome page, type your user name and password as assigned by your administrator.
3. Click LOGIN and the JReport Server console home page is displayed.

Additional login channel for admin users

JReport Server provides a special channel that automatically creates an extra user session for management purposes if the license limit of the maximum number of concurrent users has been reached. The extra user session cannot be used to run reports or submit schedules. It can only be used by admin users for performing management operations. If your JReport Server license has a bounded limit to the maximum number of concurrent users, this feature will take effect.

Only one extra valid user session can be created and used within this special channel at any time. If an extra user session has already been created and is still valid, your request for login will be prompted with a confirmation page asking you whether or not to close the existing extra user session. Only when the existing user session is closed can JReport Server start a new user session for you to perform management operations. Otherwise, you will not be allowed to log onto JReport Server.

Logging off JReport Server

To log out from JReport Server Start Page, click the button at the upper right corner.

To log out from JReport Server console, point at the user name at the upper right corner and click Logout from the drop-down menu.

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