In the list view, collections of managed objects are displayed using a master-detail paradigm. The master portion is a list that displays the collection. The master portion also offers action buttons that apply to the selected object in the list. The bottom pane displays the properties of a selected object.
Displaying the List View
• Click List View in the Enterprise Graphical View toolbar.
• Select a menu option in the Administratortoolbar.
Interacting with the List View
The commonly used patterns for displaying objects in the list view are described below.
Flat Lists
The following figure displays a typical flat list which is displayed as a table.
If there are no objects, the list is empty. If there are objects, an item is not selected when the page is opened:
You must select an item in the list to display the details of the object. If an item is selected in a table, the details for that item are displayed in the Details area.
A flat list has the following interactions:
• Click on a row to select it.
• Click the refresh icon to refresh the list. You may have to manually refresh the list periodically, especially when invoking an action and are waiting to see the results of your action on the items in the list.
• You can click column headings to sort by that column. Each click toggles between ascending and descending sort.
• Some columns appear as hyperlinks. Click the hyperlinks to view additional information.
• Some a flat lists provide a filter. Select a value from the drop-down list to view items that match the chosen type.
Tree Lists
A tree list displays a hierarchy of items, such as components of an application or appenders for a logging configuration.
A tree list has the following interactions:
• By default, each level is always in alphabetical order (ascending A-Z).
• The top level entry is the first entry in the tree table.
• Expand and collapse icons are displayed for all parent and child levels except the last level in the list.
Graphical View
The graphical view is an alternative to the list view. The graphical view displays Administrator objects in a graphical canvas. The graphical canvas can display a logical or physical view of the objects. The logical view displays the enterprise from the perspective of the logical administrative entities maintained by Administrator:
environments and applications.
Silverlight is required to view the graphical view and the monitoring dashboards. Refer to the readme file for the supported versions.
At a higher level, the graphical view displays a wide view of your enterprise. You can zoom in on a particular object to view more details. Using the graphical view, you can visualize associations between objects in your enterprise.
The physical view displays the enterprise from the perspective of the physical processes managed by Administrator: hosts and nodes.
Displaying the Graphical View About this task
Choose one of the following options to display the graphical view:
• Choose Infrastructure > Enterprise Graphical View
• Click in the toolbar of an object list.
Interacting with the Graphical View
The graphical view has the following interactions:
• Choose between Logical and Physical View from the drop-down list located at the left hand side of the display.
• The slider located on the right side of the display is used to zoom in and out of the current view.
• The Refresh button updates the data for the objects being displayed.
• Breadcrumbs along the top center can be used to navigate from drilled into objects back up to a higher level view.
• The mouse wheel zooms in and out centered on the cursor's location.
• The large black gray squares with arrows, located towards the bottom of the screen, scroll in the direction of the arrow and appear when some object is out of view.
• Click the button to hide the browser controls and to display over the entire screen. Press the ESC key to exit the full screen mode.
• Click to drill into the selected object.
• The indicators at the top of object boxes indicate the status of the object:
– - running – - unknown – - stopped
• Re-size the boxes to display detailed information.
• In the logical view, use the Application Template tab located at the bottom of the screen to drag applications templates to environments to create applications.
• In the physical view, use the Resource Templates tab located at the bottom of the screen to drag resource templates to a node to create a resource instance or a host to create a resource instance on each node in the host.
• The services (rendered in green) and references (rendered in pink) in the logical view can be used to wire together applications or environments.
– The Wire option from the object menu allows you to pick targets from a list.
– The FreeWire option from the object menu allows you to drag and drop.
Menus
Selecting a single object adds a menu of the actions that can be performed on that object. The contents of the menu depend on the selected object.
Wiring Using the Graphical View About this task
The services (rendered in green) and references (rendered in pink) in the logical view can be used to wire together applications or environments.
Procedure
1. Drill down into an application till the services and references are visible.
2. Click the reference.
The object menu is enabled.
3. Access the FreeWire option.
– If wiring a reference to a service, click the FreeWire option and hold down the mouse button for a few seconds till the wire is visible.
– If wiring a service to a reference, double click the FreeWire option.
The wiring aid tool box appears. The following figure shows an example of a tool box displayed when wiring a service to a reference.
4. Wire the components.
Description Option
When wiring a reference to a service, guide the wire across the screen. On reaching a suitable target service, the color of the wire changes to blue and the service is expanded to display its bindings. Choose a binding.
Wiring a reference to a service
Wiring a service to a
reference 1. When wiring a service to a reference, the service expands to display its bindings.
2. Choose a binding.
The wire is enabled.
3. Guide the wire across the screen. On reaching a suitable target reference, the color of the wire changes to blue. Release the mouse button when over the desired reference.
The wire is created. The wiring aid tool box displays the updated information for a few seconds before it disappears.
What to do next
To delete a wiring, select the wire and press the delete button on your keyboard.