InterMapper DataCenter is installed automatically when you install InterMapper.
Note: Unless you want to do one of the following, you do not to take any of the steps described in this topic:
To open the InterMapper DataCenter web UI:
Note: If this is a fresh installation, InterMapper DataCenter automatically generates an SSL certificate, used to encrypt communication with your browser and the InterMapper server. Because a new certificate is generated for every installation, the certificate cannot be signed by a recognized certificate authority. As a result, your browser may display a message alerting you to an invalid certificate. To avoid seeing the message in the future, choose the option to continue, and tell your browser to add the certificate to its list of trusted certificates. In some browsers, including Firefox, you may need to click a link on the warning page and use a separate pane to add an exception for the certificate.
You can replace the generated certificate with one of your own by visiting the Services List. Click the Change Settings link for the InterMapper DataCenter Daemon, once initial setup is complete.
Before you can use InterMapper DataCenter from another machine, you must set the password for the InterMapper DataCenter admin account.
To set the password for the InterMapper DataCenter admin account:
Note: By default, you can log in to InterMapper DataCenter from the machine it is installed on without any authentication. You can choose to force authentication even on the local machine by unchecking the Skip authentication for local connections box, and creating a password as described above.
If you are planning to use an existing database, you are now ready to configure it. If you are planning to use InterMapper Authentication Server, you are also ready to configure it now.
InterMapper DataCenter can log status information, connection attempts by InterMapper servers, and error information obtained when connecting to directory services. InterMapper DataCenter logs to a file called log/imdc.log within the IMDC install folder. For the location of the log file for your platform, see InterMapper Files and Folders.
To set the logging level:
InterMapper DataCenter can report problems and send bug reports to InterMapper Support. To do this, you need to specify one or more SMTP hosts and user information.
To set up error reporting: