The Preferences page allows you to customize the BEA Guardian environment.
These are the different ways to open the Preferences page:
Press "Ctrl+Shift+P"
Select Preferences from the Window menu.
The Preferences page is a dialog box that allows you to select from the following main categories:
Figure 4-149 Preferences Main Window
General - settings that control the appearance of, interaction with, and startup of Guardian. The ones most useful for Guardian are:
Keys - allows you to change Guardian's Keyboard Shortcuts.
Figure 4-150 Preferences - General - Keys
Startup and Shutdown - allows you to change whether Guardian prompts you for the Guardian Workspace location when starting.
Figure 4-151 Preferences - General - Startup and Shutdown
Guardian - settings that control Guardian's data interactions and appearance. The ones most useful for Guardian are:
BEA Support - allows you to specify whether to use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption when creating support cases, and whether to use a proxy server when updating Guardian. Please note that Guardian uses 128 bit open source encryption for SSL.
Figure 4-152 Preferences - Guardian - BEA Support
Proxy - allows you to add proxy servers to use when activating domains.
Figure 4-153 Preferences - General - Startup and Shutdown
Help - settings that control how Guardian help content is displayed.
Figure 4-154 Preferences - Help
Install/Update - settings that control how the Guardian application is updated. The Automatic Updates section allows you to tell Guardian to automatically contact the BEA Guardian update site to find new signatures and application updates.
