How to show the "SIA name" in the CMC screen(s) for administration ( BI 4.1 SP5)

Question

When logging on to "BI4" (cmc) we have several options.
First option: the web page for the login.
Our system has 3 SIA's ( DEV , TEST , PROD ), three Tomcat "web app servers" with respective urls
DEV is a simple one: everything on one machine.
(exceptions: databases in Oracle, IFRS / OFRS are NAS mapped to D:/something on the BI4-DEV server)
TEST is separated:
tomcat on an application server (url:bi4-web-test) ,
one "management server" BI4-MAN-TEST for SIA,
a "processing server" BI4-PRO-TEST for the processing services.
PROD is much like test, only more processing servers on extra machines
BUT
logging on to CMC, at either one of these 3 URLs : http:/<siaservername>/BOE/CMC/ ,
I still have the option: "Server:" ( BI4-DEV , BI4MAN-TEST, BI4MAN-PROD : three different "manager" or SIA names)
So starting from BI4-DEV, I can log on to BI4-PROD
My problem: the URL shown in the browser navbar now does NOT tell me any more at which server I am working. The url only shows where I logged in.
Is it possible to SHOW the ACTUAL SERVER somewhere - say next to the logged-in user name ?
Instead having a page header showing:
... <preferences> ... Welcome, Administrator
I imagine it showing:
... <preferences> ... Welcome, Administrator ON <SIA>
Is this at all possible ?
In Boxi 3.1 we could modify the "header layout" for InfoView. Users would see our company logo, their login name ... but we never did that for boxi 3.1 "CMC"
Now in BI4.1 , with the much more complicated setup, we want to do that.
I did not find it in the "Administrators' Guide" .... yet.
Hans Rens,
Brussels

Answer 1

( long reply)
Thank you for this First step.
Though reading through your reply, I understand that my question was not clear.
On the (Launchpad) LOGIN page, I see the company name. That page thus was “customized”
On the CMC login page, we didn’t customize it. We judged that “Administrators know what they are doing”
and that “ICT personnel can live with reading the SAP logo instead of company logo/name/colours”
BUT
Once logged in to the CMC, every “internal page” (the menu, the Universes page, the Applications page, the Users and Groups – page … ) have a uniform header saying :
Welcome: HANREN | Preferences | | Log Off
(yes, HANREN is the name of the BI User logged on)
I would like to make it something like :
Welcome: HANREN | BI4MAN-PROD | Preferences | | Log Off
Where the red name is “the name of the SIA, a.k.a. “manager server” for the (prod) cluster. (or test cluster – and when nothing is showing, we will know “this is DEV” because we “did not customize that one” )
WHY ?
At login, everybody KNOWS where he is logging in to, because you need to supply the SERVER NAME
But further on, working in two (or more) browser windows / tabs, one needs a way to find “where I am”.
This goes fine, when logging in to DEV on the DEV URL, then opening a second window and logging in to the TEST URL and on the test sia.
But SWITCHING from one window to another tab … a small indicator would be very helpful.
Lucky escape ?
We did have a problem recently, were two admins were loggin on / off to the different systems, looking for differences to correct something … but nobody wanted to “correct” a system that was working well.
It was quite frustrating to find out that it was “very easy” to think I was working on system1 (in the url) while actually connected to the system3(sia)
OK, we saw that in time, before the problem from system3 had been “implemented” on system1, instead of applying the solution (settings of working system1) to the faulty system3.
But the stress of the error found, the search for solutions “asap” … has to be counted in. If there is a simple way to “know” where one is working, instead of having to “guess” , human mistakes can be brought to a minimum.
This morning I tested again: it is perfectly possible, to open 3 browser windows on exactlu the same URL, then open 3 DIFFERENT CMS logins : one on prod, another on test, a third one with my colleagues login also on test … and the navigation bar will NOT show who is adding user groups in which system.
Thank you for the first step hint, though. I’ll add it to our documentation.
It is a little different in BI 4.x than in our boxi-3.x setup )