NCache Management Center

The NCache Management Center is a cross-platform, web-based management interface for NCache clusters to manage and monitor them by utilizing a configuration interface, ASP.NET Core-based Management Center for high-level managerial tasks of cache creation, server-client node management, and many other cache-related operations on Windows and Linux distributions.

Which Web Browsers are Supported by NCache?

The NCache Management Center supports the latest versions of the following Internet browsers:

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Opera
• Microsoft Edge

How do I Access and Launch the NCache Management Center?

Upon starting the NCache Service, the NCache Management Center will auto start by default if it is not already running. The NCache Management Process runs on your local server node with port 8251. Therefore, to launch the NCache Management Center in your browser, use the http://localhost:8251 or <server-ip>:8251 URLs.

Note

Information about the NCache Management Center startup after service start is also logged in Event Viewer in Windows.

Enable/Disable Auto Start

Auto Start NCache Management Center option is enabled upon service start. To disable Auto Start follow the steps given below:

• Windows Environment
• Linux Environment

• Open Alachisoft.NCache.Service.dll.config at %NCHOME%\bin\service.

• The following flag is True by default, which means the NCache Management Center starts automatically with the NCache service. If you want to disable the NCache Management Center, set the value to False.

<add key="NCacheServer.StartWebManagement" value="True"/>

• Restart the NCache Service by typing the following command in PowerShell:

Start-Service -Name NCacheSvc

Manually Start NCache Management Center

If you want to manually start the NCache Management Center, follow the steps below.

• Go to the Start menu on the Taskbar, type NCache PowerShell Management, and click on it.

• This will open an instance of PowerShell with ncacheps imported, and display a list of available NCache PowerShell cmdlets.

• Enter the following PowerShell command to start the NCache Management Process on your local server node. By default, the URL is http://localhost:8251.

Start-NCacheManagementCenter

• To start the NCache Management Center existing on server 20.200.20.11 execute the following PowerShell command.

Start-NCacheManagementCenter -Server 20.200.20.11

• Similarly, to start the NCache Management Center existing on servers 20.200.20.11 and 20.200.20.12 execute the following PowerShell command.

Start-NCacheManagementCenter -Server "20.200.20.11,20.200.20.12"

• You can also start the NCache Management Center on local server using security credentials.

Start-NCacheManagementCenter -Credentials(Get-Credential john_smith)

• You can now use NCache Management Center by browsing http://localhost:8251.

NCache Management Center Security

To ensure the security and integrity of user's data while maintaining ease of use, NCache offers an additional layer of security for operations involving the NCache Management Center. Following are some of the advanced security options in the NCache Management Center for seamless functioning.

• While configuring security, you are required to add similar users as Node Administrators on all the nodes in the same cluster.
• Configuring different users as Node Administrators on participating nodes of the same cluster will cause problems, so make sure that you have the same users as Node Administrators in one cluster.
• Once you have configured security on a node, connecting to the NCache Management Center will require user login credentials. This ensures only the authorized users with the right privileges can access the cache node.

See Also

Configure Caches
Configure Clients
Configure Client Cache
Cache Settings