This user guide is for current 2.0.x branch version of the Petals Webconsole (2.0.6). This documentation will have to evolve according to developments undertaken on the trunk.

Overview

Petals Webconsole is divided into three parts as detailed below: 

These three parts are:

• Connection Part
• Domain Part
• Server Part

Connection Part

This view part is the the little purple headband to the page top, its contains two buttons:

• Change server
• Manage connections

The Change server button allows to dynamically change the current server connection. For example if you are

logged on Server 0 you can try to connect to another server like Server 1.

The Manage connections button allows to manipulate all declared connections for the Webconsole.

Domain Part

This view part contains a menu which represent all discovered servers from the recovered Petals topology,

when the Webconsole succeeded a connection to a server declared into the webconsole.xml configuration file.

Two element types are displayed:                                  

	A click performed on this type allow to update the  current domain, where the WebConsole is  connected.
	A click performed on this type allow to update the  Server Part, with linked informations to the  selected server.

Server Part

This view part allow to display several informations about the current selected server,

and performe several interactions on it. I this part of the view, three main tabs are

available:

• Administration
• Test
• Monitoring

The Administration tab allows to manage components, shared libraries and service assemblies, but also get several

informations about endpoints exposed from Petals ESB. Other secondary features are also available like modify

runtime component attributes and modify level of component loggers.

The Test tab allows to performe test, check availability of exposed services, analyse services responses.

In order to make available this tab, one petals-se-rmi must be:

• Installed and started on at least one node of the current topology
• Declared into the webconsole.xml configuration file

The Monitoring tab allows to define monitoring filters, manage them and display informations of each filter.

The main feature is still the message exchanges monitoring, with a detailed overview of each exchange

and several information charts.