Sterling Connect:Direct User Interfaces

The following user interfaces serve as clients to Sterling Connect:Direct® servers:

• Sterling Control Center provides a system-wide view of your Sterling Connect:Direct servers that enables you to monitor and manage your resources from a central location, including the capability of managing your Sterling Connect:Direct server configurations.
• Sterling Connect:Direct Browser User Interface allows you to create, submit, and monitor Sterling Connect:Direct Processes from an Internet browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. You can also perform Sterling Connect:Direct system administration tasks, such as viewing and changing the network map or initialization parameters (with the appropriate authority level). The specific administration tasks that you can perform depend on the Sterling Connect:Direct platform that your browser is signed on to and your security level.

  Sterling Connect:Direct Browser User Interface can be used as a client for Sterling Connect:Direct for Microsoft Windows, UNIX, z/OS®, and HP NonStop servers.

• Command Line Interface allows you to issue Sterling Connect:Direct commands and monitor Sterling Connect:Direct Processes. CLIs are available in Sterling Connect:Direct for Microsoft Windows, UNIX, HP NonStop, and OpenVMS.
• Some platforms contain panel-driven user interfaces, such as the Sterling Connect:Direct for z/OS ISPF Interactive User Interface.
• Application programming interfaces (APIs) in Sterling Connect:Direct enable customers to tie-in their applications to Sterling Connect:Direct.