Welcome to the Host On-Demand Deployment Wizard
The Host On-Demand Deployment Wizard guides you through the necessary steps to create an HTML page that can be used to launch
Host On-Demand host sessions. It provides a quick, easy interface to help you configure many available HTML features.
 | Copying HTML files: You can create a new HTML file that is like an existing one
by editing the existing file, making changes if you wish, and saving the new HTML file as a different file name.
You can specify the new file name on the File Name and Output Format window of the Deployment Wizard.
When you follow these steps, the original file does not change. Your new HTML file name will be the
value you specify in the File Name field, and the file will be identical to the one you chose to edit, with
any added changes you might have made.
Properties button: A Properties button is provided
on the Welcome window of the separately-installed Deployment Wizard. It
can be used if you need to modify the location of your Host On-Demand
server from the value you specified during the Deployment Wizard
installation. The separately-installed Deployment Wizard obtains Help
information from the Host On-Demand server, and must know the server's
location in order for the Help buttons to work.
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Before asking you for session information, the Deployment Wizard prompts you to select which configuration model you want to use.
For example, if you select the HTML-based model, you define all session information using the Deployment Wizard, and this
session information is stored in the HTML file itself. If you select the Combined or Configuration Server-based models, you define your
session information in the Host On-Demand Configuration Server using the
Administration Utility.
The following is a list of some of the many features that you can configure using the Deployment Wizard:
- Preloads. Host On-Demand runs as an applet and must download code to the users' machines. By default, the
Host On-Demand client downloads all of the components, but you may reduce the download size by removing
those components that are not needed. Refer to Preload Options for more information.
- Download or cached client. Download clients download the necessary applet files each time users access the HTML
pages; cached clients retain the code the first time users access the HTML page, and will store
it on the users' machines. Refer to Selecting which clients to use for more information.
- Web page appearance (custom HTML templates). You can easily set up a template that
the Deployment Wizard will use to generate your
HTML pages. This feature makes it easy to add your own background, banners, etc.
- Client Java level. Clients running Java 2-enabled browsers
will need somewhat different HTML pages than those running Java 1-enabled browsers. In the Deployment Wizard, you can select
Java 1, Java 2, or Auto-detect.
- Cached client upgrade options. When running the cached client, the code must be upgraded when newer
versions of the client are available. There are a number of Upgrade Options that allow
you to control when the upgrades occur.
- Location of the Host On-Demand install (code base). Usually, Deployment Wizard files are placed in the Host On-Demand
server's publish directory. However, sometimes it may be useful to put these files in a location that is independent of the
Host On-Demand server so that they can be granted different security controls or make Host On-Demand server
upgrades easier, for example.
- Locale options. The Host On-Demand applet will automatically display client desktop and session frame messages
in the language identified by the locale on users' machines. However, in the Advanced Options window
in the Deployment Wizard, you can specify a particular locale to use if you wish to
ignore the setting on each user's machine.
- Portlets. You can run Host On-Demand as
portlets within the Portal Server component of WebSphere Portal.
Administrators can use the Deployment Wizard to create custom Host On-Demand portlets with only
the features they desire.
- Windows Domain logon. If your users are logged on to a Windows domain, this option automatically
logs users on to Host On-Demand using their Windows user name. This is available
with the Configuration Server-based model in the Deployment Wizard. Refer to
User ID Security for more information.
- Session Manager APIs. The Host On-Demand Session Manager provides JavaScript APIs for managing host
sessions and text-based interactions with host sessions. These APIs are intended
to provide support for embedding host sessions into a Web page using JavaScript and can be enabled with the Deployment Wizard. Refer to
the Host On-Demand Session Manager Reference for more information.
If you are configuring options (defining sessions) using the HTML-based model, you have
an additional set of options:
- Session properties. All of the session properties can be
configured, including connection information, security, etc. Each of the
fields may be locked to prevent users from updating them.
- Runtime options. When configuring a session, you can start it and define
runtime features such as session size and placement, colors, toolbar customization, and macros.
- Disabling user functions. You can disable almost any of the
functions that users normally receive as part of their Host On-Demand
session, such as bookmarking, creating or running macros, etc.
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