4.2 Control Center
The Redline Control Center is the information and management interface for Redline. The Control Center is organized into main sections in drop-down menus along the top and a system object or information tree window on the left. The main window displays information per the selected main section and tab. (Tabs also appear directly under the drop-down menus in specific sections, such as the agent screen.)
Through navigation of the main sections, administrators have access to information about their entire GroupWise system including: alerts, reports, system details (called System View), as well as Redline configuration screens. There are buttons for configuring the automatic refresh rate for the screen, logging out, and a link to the online manual.
The default page of the Redline Control Center displays all major alerts, warnings, and system statistics for a quick general system health overview at a glance.
4.2.1 Dashboard
Dashboard is the default section of the Redline Control Center. The Dashboard shows a quick overview of the system and a quick health view. There is also a total system health bar just below the tabs, showing a percentage health status.
The main dashboard window contains an alert display on the left side of the window, showing the status of all known agents, both for GroupWise and Redline systems.
If the graphs, gauges, or status values have been incorrectly configured, selecting the ‘Defaults’ button will reset the gauges and graphs to their default settings.
The ‘Help’ tab provides quick access to contextual help for any main section currently displayed. The quick help window opens in the information panel. The Help tab will remain open until the Main tab is again selected.
Dashboard
This page is called the Dashboard, because it uses gauges and graphs to display vital system information and health status.
The Dashboard tab shows levels of message movement at the GWIA and Domain, open and user thread levels and total system wide messages passing through the Post Office Agent or Agents. By default, the graphs and gauges are updated every 4 minutes.
The Graphs present on the Dashboard, along with all stats, can be configured and changed through Redline Configuration section.
Quick Health
The Quick Health Dashboard lists all agents known to Redline in a very compact format. The format may be stacked alphabetically, or organized under the monitoring Redline agent, or Host. This page automatically refreshes per the auto-refresh setting.
Not Connected
All agents that are not reporting any data are designated by a colored box: yellow and red. Alerts will result in a red box, and yellow indicates the state is unknown, (likely that the agent is down and hasn’t reported.)
Connected
All agents actively sending data are shown with a green, gray, or blue box; gray indicates normal, green indicates a report since last refresh, and blue indicates a program directly reporting to the Control Center (ex. vertigo), but has not reported recently.
If you click on an agent name you will be directed to the agent summary page. If you click on the alert icon, you will be taken to the alert page, with all the details of this agent.