6.4 Configuration Monitor
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In the Configuration Monitor, the status for configuration operations, such as import, save, update, etc can be monitored.
To open the Configuration Monitor, click the Tools button in the upper left part of the Desktop window, and then select Configuration Monitor from the menu.
The Configuration Monitor view
By default, only the users own operations are shown, but all operations can be shown by selecting the check box Show All Operations.
In the table, all active operations and how they progress are shown.
In the status bar at the bottom you can also see progress information about the different parts in the operations in plain text and also a a small status wheel showing overall progress.
When an operation results in an exception during recompilation of configurations, or a dependent configuration switches state, a warning is raised and the operation row will stay in the list until it is manually deleted. A warning sign is also placed on top of the status wheel in the status bar.
Menus and Buttons
In this section the different menus and buttons in the Configuration Monitor, and their respective options are described.
| Edit Menu | |
|---|---|
Delete
| Select this option to delete the selected configuration(s) from the list. |
| View Menu | |
|---|---|
Details
| Select this option to display the details about warnings that has occurred. For more information regarding the details, see the section Details below. |
Configuration Monitor Table
Displays all operations that is active or has failed. If you right click on a operation, a pop-up menu will be displayed from which you can perform the actions that are listed in the Edit and the View menus.
If the Show All Operations is selected, operations from all users will be shown.
The columns in the Configuration Monitor table are:
Columns | Description |
|---|---|
User Name | Specifies which user and desktop host that initiated the operation. |
Operation Name | Specifies the operation that is executing. |
Progress | The progress of the steps for each operation is shown in this column. For example, if an Ultra format has been saved and three workflows are dependent on this format, the save operation would consist of four steps. |
| Timestamp | The date and time the operation was initiated. |
Details
To display the details for an operation, select the operation in the Configuration Monitor table and click on the Details button, or click on the View menu and select Details.
The displayed Details dialog are divided into two parts. The first section lists the dependent configurations that have changed their states between invalid and valid and the second part contains a selectable list of exceptions that occurred during compilation. The exceptions and their stack traces can be viewed by selecting the exception and click on the View Trace button.