This topic discusses problems that you can encounter when you attempt to access the console.
If you can bring up the browser page, but the administrative console behavior is inconsistent, error prone, or unresponsive, try upgrading your browser. Older browsers might not support all the features of the administrative console.
Before viewing the administrative console, you must run the startServer Qshell script. For more information on starting the server, see Starting an application server.
This error indicates that security is enabled for WebSphere Application Server, and that the user ID or password supplied is either not valid or not authorized to access the console.
Directory paths that are used for class paths or resources specified in an assembly tool, in configuration files, or elsewhere that contain strange characters when they are viewed in the administrative console might result from the Java run time interpreting a backslash (\) as a control character.
To resolve this problem, modify Windows-style class paths by replacing occurrences of single back slashes to two. For example, change c:\MyFiles\MyJsp.jsp to c:\\MyFiles\\MyJsp.jsp.