VMWare Smart Assurance SAM: How can the frame header in the Service Assurance Manager Web Console be changed?

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
How can the frame header in the VMWare Smart Assurance Service Assurance Manager (SAM) Web Console be changed?

Is it possible to change the VMWare Smart Assurance Web Console banner and link to customize it to my company's image and link?

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

The standard VMWare Smart Assurance Service Assurance Manager Web Console banner and URL can be customized as follows:

1. Navigate to the following directory on your Ionix/Smarts SAM server:
   
   <BASEDIR>/CONSOLE/smarts/tomcat/webapps/webconsole
   
    
2. Make a copy of the AppletTopBanner.html file in the webconsole directory and change the name of the copied file to CustomTopBanner.html or whatever name you want for the banner file.
3. Open and edit the CustomTopBanner.html file to add the your desired banner image. You can also change the URL to point to your internal URL.
4. Make a copy of the index.html file in the following directory:
   
   <BASEDIR>/CONSOLE/smarts/tomcat/webapps/webconsole
   
    
5. Change the name of the copied index.html file to index.html.org to have a backup of the original file.
6. Open the index.html file that you want to change and find the topbanner section. The topbanner section references the AppletTopBanner.html by default:
   
   <FRAME SRC="AppletTopBanner.html" name="topbanner" scrolling="NO" marginheight=0 marginwidth=0 >
    
7. Change the reference in index.html from AppletTopBanner.html to CustomTopBanner.html (or whatever name you used for the banner file):
   
   <FRAME SRC="CustomTopBanner.html" name="topbanner" scrolling="NO" marginheight=0 marginwidth=0 >