Administration Window Overview
The Webspace Admin Console displays information about your Webspace Server. This information includes:
- Server activity and processes taking place on the server.
- A list of the users logged onto a selected Webspace Server.
- Applications users are running.
- Times that applications were started.
This information enables you to perform several administrative tasks, such as:
- Determine which applications are no longer being used and whether additional servers are required.
- Monitor clients.
- Administer sessions and processes including: Terminate user and End processes running on the server.
- Control client access to the Webspace Server.
Window Overview
The following figure shows an example of the Webspace Admin Console.
The following table outlines each of the areas in the Webspace Admin Console.
| Screen Area | Description |
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The Tools menu is where you access the Host Options dialog box to configure your Webspace Server. |
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The Tree View Pane The tree view portion of this window displays a list of Webspace Servers on the network and their status. For a list of icons and descriptions, refer to the Tree View Icons section in this topic.Important: You must belong to the Administrators group on each Webspace Server in order to access that server from the Webspace Admin Console. Without administrative rights on a server, you will be unable to add applications and terminate processes, and so on. If a red X displays on the icon, the administrator does not have administrative rights on the server. If the server's icon has a red X and is grayed out, the server is no longer running the Application Publishing Service, or it has been turned off. A dependent server is orphaned when its relay server has gone down. |
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The Sessions Tab Sessions can be connected, terminated or refreshed through this tab on the Webspace Admin Console window. Information displayed about each session includes: a unique identifier for the session name, the network user name for that session, number of clients connected to a session (2 or higher indicates the session is being shadowed), the IP address of the client computer from which the user is accessing the server, the date and time the user started the application, and the number of applications the user is accessing. |
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The Processes Tab Process information can be viewed, refreshed, or terminated from this tab.Note: Ending
a process without giving users a chance to close their application can
result in the loss of data.
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The Applications Tab You can assign command line parameters for the associated application, or change the icon that displays for the application from this tab. |
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The Status Bar The status bar provides the following for a selected Webspace Server currently being accessed:
Note: If All Hosts is selected, the Sessions number will reflect all the sessions running on the network, and the processes number will reflect all the processes on the network.
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Tree View Icons
The following table describes the icons that can appear in tree view area of the Webspace Admin Console.
| Icon | Description | Status |
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Webspace Server (Not part of a Relay Server Configuration) | Available |
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Dependent Application Server (in a Relay Server Configuration) | Orphaned |
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Relay Server | Unavailable |
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Relay Server | Available |
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Dependent Application Server (in a Relay Server Configuration) | Available |
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Dependent Application Server (in a Relay Server Configuration) | Unavailable |
Accessing the Webspace Admin Console
During the Webspace installation, a shortcut to the Webspace Admin Console is created by default. You can access the Webspace Admin Console from the desktop shortcut or from the Start menu. On the desktop, double-click the Webspace Admin Console icon, or on the Start menu, point to Programs, Proficy Webspace, and then click Admin Console.