The FTM Operations and Administration Console

Use the FTM OAC to monitor, configure, and control any number of deployed FTM applications (see Multiple applications and versions). Each FTM application is a unique entity with its own operational and configuration data:

Operational data

Data that originates or changes state as a result of a message that was processed. This data includes transmissions, transactions, batches, and events.

Configuration data

Encompasses system configuration items as defined by the model for an application version, for example, formats and channels (see Model configuration data). Service participants and scheduler tasks have an operational component and they can change state as a message passes through the system. The OAC also displays some of its own security configuration data, called authorizations, which apply to all versions of an application.

As a user, you can display data only for applications to which you have access, and you can run only those actions for which you are authorized. Icons that correspond to actions for which you are not authorized are not displayed.

The following figure shows the page that is opened after you log in to the OAC, it lists all installed FTM applications.

The following list describes the numbered features that are shown in this figure.

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The Application list is where you can select the FTM application for which data is to be displayed.

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The navigation panel. It has the following options:

Menu

A list of the nodes that correspond to the objects that you can monitor and configure. The following table describes each node and shows the icons that are used for it.

Node	Icon when node is ...		Description
	Closed	Open
Favorites			A node that contains each of the pages that were added as favorites by clicking Add To Favorites. Use this node as a quick way to do searches or to open item details that you use often.
Operational Data			A node that contains the operational data items. For more information about the available operational data items, see the Node column in the Actions available for operational data table.
Configuration Data			A node that contains the configuration data items. For more information about the available configuration data items, see the Node column in the Actions available for configuration items table.
User-defined name for a group of custom searches			A node that contains custom search items. For more information about custom searches, see Custom searches.

Search

The search page is available if you select an option from the Menu page. With search, you can specify the search criteria that are to be applied to limit the scope of the list in the content pane.

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The content pane shows the following information:

• On the initial page, the content pane contains a list of available FTM application versions. In the leftmost column, an icon indicates the status of each application version. For more information, see Status icons.
• If you select an option from the menu page, a result list is automatically displayed for configuration data. For operational data, as response times can be sensitive to large volumes of data, automatic search can be enabled or disabled in the dialog box, as described in Setting user preferences. For lists of operational objects, such as transactions, an icon in the leftmost column indicates the status. For more information, see Status icons.
• When you select a row in a result list, the content pane contains details about that row.

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Icons that correspond to actions for the list of applications. For more information, see Command icons.

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Links to actions that apply to the entire FTM OAC, not to a particular data type.

Action link	Description
Preferences	Opens the dialog box, as described in Setting user preferences, which you can use to customize your FTM OAC.
Trace	Opens a new browser tab that contains trace information.
Query	Opens a Search page with a single field in which you can enter any SELECT statement. The search page is for troubleshooting use only.