Working with Rational Test Control Panel dashboards

You can filter, search, sort, and choose the number of items to be displayed in IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel dashboards.

Supported operations

The following matrix shows the operations that you can perform in Rational Test Control Panel dashboards:
Operation Environments dashboard Infrastructure dashboard Network dashboard
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Filtering

You can filter the stub and scenario results displayed in the Environments dashboard by selecting any or all of the filter options. You can select from the following filter options:

Option Description
Available Select this option to filter the stubs displayed based on their status as Available in Rational Test Control Panel. The stubs that are in the Starting, Running, Repairing, Reconfiguring, Downscaling, or Upscaling state are considered as Available.
Unavailable Select this option to filter the stubs displayed based on their status as Unavailable in Rational Test Control Panel. The stubs that are in the Broken or Waiting state are considered as Unavailable.
Off Select this option to filter the stubs displayed based on their status as Off in Rational Test Control Panel. The stubs that are in the Stopping or Stopped state are considered as Off.

Search

You can use the search option in the dashboard to search for any column value. When you click the Search icon (image of the search icon), it displays the search box where you must enter the criteria to search. The search option filters and displays the results that match your search criteria.

Sort

You can sort the items in columns in an ascending or descending order by clicking the column header.

Environment pagination

In the Environments dashboard, you can navigate between pages and change the number of items displayed per page by using the Pagination box at the bottom of the page. The number of items per page can be changed to a different value. You can use the Pagination box to navigate to the First page (image of the first page icon), Previous page (image of the previous page icon), Next page (image of the next page icon), or the Last page (image of the last page icon).

Multi operations display

In the Environments dashboard, the stubs with multi operations have a truncated display under the Operations column. The names of the operations are shown with a suffixed number (+number) indicating the number of operations that exist in addition to the ones displayed. For example, in the following screen, +3 indicates that there are three more operations apart from the one displayed (Multiply) that are associated with the stub.

image showing the operations column

When you hover the cursor over the number in the Operations column, it displays the names of the operations in the tooltip. You can also view the names of the operations by expanding the stub card and clicking the Details tab.

Link to stubs in the Environments dashboard

When you are viewing agents in the Infrastructure dashboard and you want to perform operations on the running stub containing the agent, you can open the running stub in the Environments dashboard without navigating to the Environments dashboard and looking up the stub. You must complete the following steps to go to the stub from the Infrastructure dashboard:
  1. Expand the AGENT.
  2. Expand the Engines tab.
  3. Click the engine running the stub.
  4. Click the stub listed in the Stubs field.
The action displays the Environments Dashboard with the selected stub in focus.
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