MainView Middleware Administrator vs MainView Middleware Administrator (Monitor Edition)

This section describes the major differences between the MainView Middleware Administrator and MainView Middleware Administrator (Monitor Edition).

The MainView Middleware Administrator (Monitor Edition) version is a licensed, limited version of MainView Middleware Administrator and is specific for use with MainView Middleware Monitor  (it replaces the legacy Configuration Manager tool).

Related topic

Getting-started

Features and components of MainView Middleware Administrator not supported (or partly supported) by the MainView Middleware Administrator (Monitor Edition) are listed in the table below. 

Note

When standard MainView Middleware Administrator functionality is not available for MainView Middleware Administrator (Monitor Edition) users, a message is displayed for the selected feature in the User/Admin Console.

Console

Sub-component

Functionality / Feature

Limited / Not supported

Admin Console











Global Actions Bar

Not supported

Limited (users will not be able to use the Creating and managing User Console views or Last Errors option)

Navigation Panel





Not supported (however, is temporarily visible before LDAP_LDAP security model  is applied) 

Not supported (however, is temporarily visible before LDAP_LDAP security model is applied)

Not supported

Not supported

Limited (Product Administrators can modify LDAP_LDAP security settings to accommodate changes in their LDAP environment, but cannot change the security model)

Not supported

Workspace

Not supported (however, is temporarily visible before LDAP_LDAP security model is applied)

Not supported (however, is temporarily visible before LDAP_LDAP security model is applied)

Limited, see the following list.

The following project functionality is permitted/accessible:

  • Viewing the projects list
  • Viewing the project properties
  • Access to audit logs relating to the TrueSight Middleware and Transaction Monitor project
  • Users can be associated/disassociated
  • User permissions
  • Groups can be associated/disassociated
  • Group permissions

The following project settings in MainView Middleware Administrator (Monitor Edition) cannot be modified:

  • Creating, copying, deleting a project
  • (Disabling) Remote File Access
  • WMQ connections cannot be added or removed
  • Links cannot be created, removed or altered
  • WMQ Event Rules cannot be created and cannot be associated
  • Associating Filters cannot be added to connections

Not supported

Not supported

Limited (users can modify LDAP_LDAP security settings to accommodate changes in their LDAP environment, but cannot change the security model)

Not supported

Not supported

Limited (users can view a list of WMQ connections and test those connections, but cannot create new connections or copy /delete existing connections)

Limited (users can view properties, and can save changes made to a connection with the following exceptions: monitoring cannot be enabled, indexing cannot be disabled, proxy cannot be enabled and QMgr Proxy cannot be set, and in the General section, QMgr Name cannot be changed, and Is z/OS Queue Manager (not relevant unless security exit is enabled) cannot be changed)

User Console

Global Actions Bar

Not supported

Limited (users will not be able to use the Manage Layouts or Change Password option, but can use the Last Errors option)

Navigation Panel

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Limited (import/export by tags is not supported)

Not supported

Not supported

Workspace

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported



 

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