Consoles page
A Console Automation Server can connect to one or more CCS console sessions. The Consoles page displays the currently defined CCS console sessions with their status and allows an Automation servers connections to individual consoles to be started, stopped and modified.
Console
New session
Click this button to pop up the New Session dialog allowing you to manually create a new console session.
Load CCS
Click this button to pop up the Load-CCS-page console selection window allowing you to load some or all sessions from the CCS servers defined on this MainView Console Management server. All selection CCS sessions will be added to the current automation server in the disabled state
Start
Click this button to start the selected console sessions. Only those sessions that are both enabled and not currently running are started, others are not affected.
Stop
Click this button to stop the selected console sessions that are currently running.
Edit
Click this button to pop up the Editing-multiple-sessions window allowing you to change one or more settings for the selected sessions in one operation.
Delete
Click this button to delete all of the selected console sessions. A pop up will ask you to confirm your decision before the sessions will be deleted.
Select all
Click this button to select all of the listed console sessions for use with one of the control buttons that can operate on more than one session at a time.
Clear all
Click this button to clear the selection check from all of the listed console sessions.
Enable
Click this button to enable all of the selected console sessions.
Disable
Click this button to disable all of the selected console sessions.
Show CCS description - show status detail
Clicking this button changes the right-most column displayed in the console list from Status Detail to CCS Description showing you any descriptive information you entered when defining console sessions in the CCS server configuration pages. Click a second time to return to the status detail.
CCS Sessions
The list of all sessions defined for the selected server with status information and controls for each session. A check box to the left of each session selects it for use with the Start, Stop, Edit, Delete, Enable, and Disable buttons above.
Column headings in blue may be clicked to change the sorting order of sessions.
Enabled
Displays an image indicating whether or not the session is enabled or disabled. Enabled sessions are started when the Automation server is started. Clicking on the enable/disable image will switch the session between being enabled and disabled.
Name
Displays the name of the session.
CCS Server
Informational display indicating the CCS server for this session.
CCS Session
Informational display showing the session name within the CCS server.
Status
Informational display indicating whether or not the session is started.
Start
Clicking the Start button will connect the Automation server to this session. This button is disabled if the server is not running, or if the session is already running, or if the session is disabled.
Stop
Clicking the Stop button will stop the session. This button is disabled if the server is not running, or if the session is stopped, or if the session is disabled.
Edit
Clicking the Edit button will pop up the Edit Session window with the console session configuration displayed for editing purposes.
Copy
Clicking the Copy button will pop up the Edit Session window with the settings from this session and allow you to provide a new name and make any other necessary adjustments and then save to create another session.
Delete
Clicking the Delete button will delete the session. A pop up will ask you to confirm your decision before the session will be deleted.
Status detail - CCS description
This column displays either more detailed status or any session descriptive text found in the CCS servers console definition: