Admin sign in and display customization

This topic describes how to launch Administration and how to customize the display.

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Sign in to Admin area

This task describes how to launch Administration on your machine from your Web browser.

To sign in to Administration:

  1. Open your Web browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari are supported) and type the Administration URL in the following format: http://<Server_name>/admin.

    You can also sign in from the landing page (http://<server name>/homepage for on‑premises, or http://<server name>/homepage/?tenant=<tenant> for SaaS), and open the administration area by clicking Manage your environment.

    The Administration Sign in window opens.

  2. In the User Name box, type your user name. Only a Site or Tenant Admin user can sign in to Administration. For details, see Predefined admin roles.

    Note: The first time you sign in to Administration, you must use the site administrator name that you specified during the installation. After you sign in, you can define additional site administrators. For details, see Define a Site Admin user.

  3. In the Password box, type the site administrator password.

    If you are signing in using your internal OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering password, you can reset the password by clicking Forgot or want to change password; this is not available when using LDAP or SSO authentication.

  4. Select the language for displaying the user interface.

    The multilingual user interface, or MLU, provides support for multiple languages on a single instance of OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering without having to install language packs. Supported languages are English, French, Italian, Korean, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish.

  5. Click the Sign in button. Administration opens.

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Display a customized welcome screen

You can set a customized message to appear when end users sign in to a project for the first time.

To display a customized welcome screen:

  1. Design the screen message

    Open the <Server_installdir>\PCWEB\Welcome\welcome.html file, and design it to display the custom html message. The html should be text only, with no objects such as images or attachment files.

  2. Enable the screen on sign in

    Open the <Server_installdir>\PCWEB\Web.config file, and set the WelcomePageFeatureEnabled parameter to true (it is set to False by default).

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Set the color theme

You can set the color theme for the user interface. The default is a light theme which features a white background with black text. There is also a dark theme with bright elements and easy-to-see colors.

Note: The dark theme feature is currently available as tech preview.

To switch between color themes:

  1. In the Administration navigation toolbar, click the User options button User area button and select Accessibility.

  2. In the Theme section, select Standard or Dark mode.

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