Web console

The functions, look, and behavior of the web console differ from the IBM® Control Center console. Because the web console provides a subset of IBM Control Center functions, the interface has a more simplified look, with fewer items on the main screen.

When you are working with the web console, keep in mind the following things:
  • What you see on the web console the first time that you log in depends on the permissions set for your user ID. The following information assumes that you have manage permissions to all functions, servers, and groups.
  • If a user attempts to log in multiple times, a warning message displays, which identifies the number of other logins by that user.
  • Your web console session times out due to inactivity unless the Auto Refresh option is enabled.
In the IBM Control Center web console, you can select the following options in the menu:
  • Analyze, to access the dashboard, reports, group workspace, and personal workspace that you have permission to view.
    • Dashboard, to access the widgets: Recent file transfer activity widget, Active alerts widget, Transfer scorecard widget, and Environmental health widget. You can see an aggregated, snapshot view of server and file transfer status.
    • Group Workspace, to access the workspace for your role that provides access to the following widgets: Size of Files over Time, Volume of Files over Time, Active Alerts by Category, and the Sterling Connect:Direct® FASP-supported nodes widget. The workspace administrator can populate the group workspace with more widgets created in IBM Cognos® Report Studio.
    • Personal Workspace, to access your individual workspace. You can personalize and drag the widgets that you want to use onto your personal workspace.
    • Reports, to display one or more types of reports.
  • Servers, to view either Individual servers or Server groups. In Individual servers and Server groups, you can click a particular server to open a menu for more information, such as Server details, File transfers, Events, Active alerts, Handled alerts, Queued processes, or Completed processes for an individual server. Server Groups lists both the groups that you manually defined and the system server groups that are provided in IBM Control Center.
  • Monitor, to view the status of the following objects:
    • Active alerts
    • Handled alerts
    • Completed processes
    • Queued processes
    • Completed file transfers

    In Monitor view Web Console users can also:

  • Set the number of rows to display per page for Monitor panels, allowing for more rows displayed per page. To set the rows per click User configuration >User preferences.

  • View, sort, and filter completed file transfers or completed processes in IBM Control Center 's Web Console. Users can also export their filtered and searched results into a CSV file format.

    To export filtered/searched results, click Export This Page To CSV> Export This Page To CSV for a page of data or click Export This Page To CSV > Export All To CSV for all pages on the results page of completed file transfers or completed transfers.

  • Manage, to create or edit the following IBM Control Center objects:
    • Rules
    • Simple SLCs
    • Actions
    • Calendars
    • Email lists
    • Schedules
    • Message categories, to define message IDs that are included in the active alerts by category widget.
    • Event processors, to view event processor details and the servers that it monitors. You can also set server policies and assign servers to a different event processor.
  • User name, to select one of the following options:
    • System configuration, to configure custom views or properties.
      • Click System configuration> Customs views, to view status of the following objects:
        • Active alerts
        • Handled alerts
        • Completed processes
        • Queued processes
        • Completed file transfers
      • Click System configuration> Properties, to modify XML files. For example, CCEngineService.xml can be modified to update performance related properties.
    • User configuration, to configure user custom views or user preferences.
      • Click User configuration> User Customs views, to customize the following available views with server-specific data to display the columns that you would like to see:
        • Active alerts
        • Handled alerts
        • Completed processes
        • Queued processes
        • Completed file transfers

      • Click User configuration> User Preferences, to customize user view. For example, Users can now select different styles for the monitor panels, allowing for more lines per page.

    • Log out, to log the current user out of the web console
  • Help icon, to access either Help and launch the IBM Knowledge Center for IBM Control Center or About to show copyright and version information for the general, engine, and browser components.
  • Filters, make working with listings of configuration objects easier to manage.
    • To filter information in a view, click to open the Add Filter pop-window.
    • Select your criteria from the Filter pull-down list and an item from the Add Value and/or Select Operator field, and click Add Filter. Once all criteria are set, click Apply Filter.
    • For example, to list all high-severity active alerts (Active Alerts panel), select Severity from Add Filter pull-down list and check High for Add value.

Users who have roles that are data visibility-restricted see only the data that is associated with their data visibility group, whereas unrestricted users see all data.

The dates and times that are displayed in the web console widgets are configured by a preferred time zone. To configure a preferred time zone, go to the IBM Control Center console, click Console Preferences > Time Preferences. The time zone that is configured can be a half-hour or quarter-hour, but it is going to be rounded up to the next hour in the display of the recent file transfer activity widget.