Using the Management Client in a web browser

To avoid installing the full Java-based Management Client on each workstation that an administrator uses, you can run the Management Client in a web browser.

You can enable the SMC Web Access feature on the Management Server or Web Portal Server. Administrators log on to the Management Client on a web page, and the Management Client runs as an HTML5 application in the web browser. The web browser is the only requirement on the workstation.

You can also connect to and manage multiple versions of the SMC. This removes the requirement to have the SMC and the locally-installed Management Client be the same version.

Access is configured in the properties of the Management Server or Web Portal Server. You can also enable the feature during the installation of the Management Server.

Limitations and recommendations

  • By default, the SMC allows a maximum of five sessions using SMC Web Access at the same time. To change the maximum number of concurrent sessions, see Knowledge Base article 17248.
  • Web browser support is limited to Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.
  • It is not possible to log on using certificate-based authentication.
  • Interacting with the local file system is limited. Each user has a folder located at %installation%\data\%servertype%\webswing\users\admin%id% where %servertype% is datamgtserver for the Management Server and datawebserver for the Web Portal Server and %id% is the ID of the administrator in the database. Users can import or export elements to this folder, for example.
  • When you copy text, using Ctrl+C, you must manually allow the copy operation in the bottom-right corner of the screen.


  • SMC Web Access can consume resources. Especially if many administrators will be using the feature, we recommend that you enable the feature on the Web Portal Server.
  • If the Management Server or Web Portal Server is installed on a Linux platform, xvfb-run must be installed.
  • If the Management Server and Web Portal Server are installed on the same computer, we recommend that you do not enable SMC Web Access on both servers.