The dashboard is your home screen, it is the first view of
ESCWA once you have logged in. You can configure your dashboard to display the information that best helps you monitor and administer
your servers.
Click
Reload Default to reset the default dashboard, for all users, to the
COBOL Server default configuration.
Click
Update Default to display two options to modify the default dashboard displayed:
- Set Current Dashboard as Default
- Click this to display a confirmation dialog asking if you want to set the current dashboard configuration as the default for
all users.
- Reset the Default Dashboard
- Click this to display a confirmation dialog asking if, since customizing your dashboard you now want to reset the dashboard
configuration to the default currently set for all users.
Note: The default dashboard is displayed to all users that have not created their own dashboard.
You can customize the widgets that are displayed, their content, dimensions, and placement. You can add multiple instances
of each widget type, each with their own configuration.
- Welcome
- Can display customized content. For example, a welcome message that provides specific information or links within your organization.
To add custom content, modify the
en.md file. By default, the file is located at
%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Micro Focus\Visual COBOL\etc\webui\escommonwebadmin\assets\welcome (Windows) or
$COBDIR/etc/webui/escommonwebadmin/assets/welcome (UNIX). This is the only widget that is displayed by default.
- Directory Server List
- Displays a list of all the directory servers. By default, their name, host, and port number are listed. You can modify the
columns displayed and the order the servers are sorted in.
- Native Region List
- Displays a list of regions associated with a specified directory server. By default, their CN, status, bitism, and whether
the region is MSS-enabled. You can modify the columns displayed and the order the regions are sorted in.
- Native Region Status
- Displays the status for a specified region. You can stop or start the region from the widget. Click on the status to take
you to the region list for the appropriate directory server.
- Native Region Monitor Graph
- Plots the latency, task rate, and task time on a graph. You can configure it to sample every minute or every 15 minutes.
Note: To enable monitoring for a region it will require a started Web Services Listener.
- Native Region Console
- Displays the auxiliary, backup, or current console logs for a specific region,
console.bak, and
console.log respectively. By default, you can display time stamp, process ID, message ID, and message in formatted columns. To display
the unformatted console text, click
Raw View when configuring the widget.
- Native Region Listeners List
- Displays information for listeners associated with a specific region. By default, it displays the listener name, address,
status, status log, conversation type, and description. You can modify the columns displayed and the order the columns are
sorted in.
- Native Region Communications Log
- Displays the messages from the region's communications log.
- Managed Region List
- Displays either CICS or JES managed regions.
- Active XA Resources
- Displays a list of all the active extended architecture (XA) resources for a specified enterprise server region. The table
lists their names and status. You can modify the columns displayed and the order the resources are sorted in. Clicking on
the resource action column will take you to the full extended architecture table entry.