Console Preferences
Select Preferences in the Console menu to display the Preferences
dialog. Click on a tab in the dialog to designate preferences for the
following: Console, Appearance, Toolbar, Fonts, Tool Loading, and
Authentication. See To Open a Server
Toolbox or To Open a Local Toolbox
for information about how Console, Tool Loading, and Authentication
settings affect Solaris Management Console functions. See Console
Description for information about the look of the Console, which
is affected by Appearance, Toolbar, and Fonts settings.
Note: Preferences are stored in the home directory of the
user ID that starts the Console and are set for that user ID; preference
settings have no connection to the identity assumed when you log in to
a Solaris Management Console server from the Console.
- Console: Specify a home toolbox and which toolbox to load
at Solaris Management Console startup (home toolbox or last toolbox opened). Or you can
choose to always prompt for a toolbox at startup. You can click
Use Current Toolbox to specify the current toolbox as your home
toolbox or you can click Browse to search for a toolbox to designate
as your home toolbox.
- Appearance: Specify the layout of the Console and the
interaction style in the View pane -- Classic or Web. Classic style
means that you must double-click on an object in the View pane to open
it; Web style means that a single click opens an object.
- Toolbar: Specify the tool bar display: picture only,
picture and text, or text only.
- Fonts: Specify the font, font size, font style, and color
of Console text.
- Tool Loading: Specify when the Console is displayed and
when tools are loaded: "Display Console, then load tools when selected";
or "Load all tools before displaying Console." You can also specify that
the selected tool loading setting override toolbox settings.
Note that the Console will be displayed quickly if you elect to
display the Console without loading tools first, but that you will be
asked to log in when you first select a tool on a server. If you elect
to load all tools before displaying the Console, you will need to log
in before the Console is displayed; if more than one server is referenced in
the toolbox, you will have to log in multiple times.
- Authentication: When loading tools from multiple servers,
specify authentication preference: prompt for credentials once and use
the same credentials for all servers or prompt for credentials for every
server. You can also specify that you want to be prompted if
credentials fail.