Chapter 3. Exploring the QlikView Management Console in Detail

The QlikView Management Console (QMC) is the administrator's main portal into configuring and managing QlikView Server.

It is important to know what has been installed and where, so we will look at this. We will also talk about license management, mounting folders for QlikView documents, and other server settings.

These are the topics we'll be covering in this chapter:

• Looking at what has been installed

• Exploring the QlikView Management Console

• Licensing

• The Root and Mount folders

• Understanding other QlikView Server settings

• Customizing QlikView Web Server settings

Looking at what has been installed

Before we delve into the QlikView Management Console (QMC), we are going to look at what has been installed and where they have been installed.

Some readers might think that this section should be placed towards the end of the previous chapter, and they may be right, but it is useful to set the context for the rest of the information that will be presented in this chapter:

Services

In the default installation that we performed in the previous chapter, there were five services installed. We can quickly verify this by running the standard Windows Services dialog, where we can see that each of them has been installed is set to Automatic start type, and has the correct login user.

Tip

If you did not have the QlikView Service account details at the time of installation, or if you need to change the user details for some reason, you can change it using the Windows Services dialog window.

If you don't see the five services here, with each of them running, we need to...

QlikView Management Console

As we saw in the previous chapter, the QlikView Management Console (QMC) is opened by going to the URL http://servername:4780/QMC/default.htm. If you are working on the server, then localhost can be used for the server name.

Only users who are members of the QlikView Administrators group on the server running the QlikView Management service have full access to the QMC. The user that was logged in while running the installation and the user name that was specified as the service user during the installation process will both be added to the QlikView Administrators group by default. Note that, if you are not logged into your PC (or the server or a Remote Desktop session) as one of those users, you will get an Access Denied message that tells you: Membership of local security groups is missing.

Note

Once you add yourself to the QlikView Administrators group, you may need to log off and log on again before the group configuration change becomes active and you can access...

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at more details about the QlikView Management Console. We explored the folder structures that QlikView created when a server was installed and the services themselves. We used QlikView Management Console to add, remove, and update licenses, and we managed how those licenses were assigned to users. We reconfigured our folder structure to a better practice model, and we explored some of the other QlikView server settings, such as logging, security, and alerts.

In the next chapter we will look in more detail at managing and securing documents, and look at how to configure reloads on a standard QlikView Server.