Browsing Directly to Recorder Manager or Enterprise Manager Agent

Typically, you open the Recorder Manager (RM) application and the Enterprise Manager Agent Web application installed on every system server that communicates with the Enterprise Manager regarding any configuration changes or alarm messages for the relevant server. (EMA) application from within the Enterprise Manager application.

When you open the RM or EMA from within Enterprise Manager, RM or EMA automatically authenticates you. You are authenticated based on the credentials you entered when logging on to the Enterprise Manager application. See Security (Authentication and Authorization) for more information.

You can also browse directly to the RM application or the EMA application on a managed server Server that is managed by the Enterprise Manager application.. You browse to the RM or EMA by entering the URL for the application in a web browser. You can then log on to either the RM or EMA directly through the RM or EMA logon screen.

Problem:

When the RM or EMA is accessed directly, the user name used to access the RM or EMA is preserved on the RM or EMA logon screen. The user name is visible to the next user who accesses the application by browsing directly to the application. This user name is passed to the web browser in a cookie.

Solution:

If you have several administrators accessing RMs and EMAs directly, you must perform this procedure. This procedure prevents an administrator from seeing the user name of the previous administrator who accessed the application. This procedure suppresses cookies and prevents the user name from being passed to the web browser.

  1. Use a text editor to open the following file on the computer that hosts Enterprise Manager: install directory\software\conf\applications\EMA and RM\ConfigManager.xml

  2. Add the following property to the existing properties:

    <Property name=”system/suppressCookieEnabled”>true</Property>

  3. Restart the Tomcat service on the managed server.

  4. After performing the previous steps, delete cookies from your Internet Explorer browser. Also, instruct anyone else who has previously browsed directly to the EMA or RM to delete cookies from Internet Explorer.