Identifying Alternate Documentation Servers

To see what alternate servers are defined, select View List of Alternate Servers from the Admin GUI. This displays a list of servers currently identified as "fall-through" servers. If a user clicks on a link in a book and that book is not located on the current server, the AnswerBook2 product examines the servers in this list to find the target for the link. The AnswerBook2 server comes with a pre-defined alternate server of http://docs.sun.com, which is Sun's master documentation server and contains released Sun documentation.

For each alternate server defined for the current server, this page shows the name of the server, its port number, and a link to the list of collections installed on that server. When you click on show list of collections, you are prompted for administrative ID and password for the alternate server (if administrative access control is defined for the alternate server). In other words, you can add an alternate server without having administrative access to it, but you can only view the list of collections on the alternate server if you have administrative access to it.

There is no command line option to perform this function.