Online Management


ZMC Online Control page.

Note   Online service management functions are available only if the service is in the active state.

Stopping and Starting the service

To change the service state use Start and Stop buttons. If you are stopping the service and there are active users sessions, you will be warned before the action begins. In this case, it is a good idea to send online message to all active sessions (see Sending Online Messages).

Browsing Users Sessions

To browse users sessions use the Online users list to select the user. Associated (with the user) sessions appears in the User sessions list. Caption of a session is the current user process window caption. The Started field shows the session start time. Currently connected sessions have a blue icon. Pending sessions (available for reconnection) have a gray icon. To see detailed session information use Sess. Info button or double-click on the item in the User sessions list.
To update users and sessions information use the Refresh button.

 

Sending Online Messages

To send a message to a currently connected user or session, use the Send Message button. In the Send online message dialog, select an user and session of a specified user. You can send a message to the all user sessions using the "All users consoles" item in the Console list. Finally, to send a message to all active sessions select the "All users" item in the User list and the "All users consoles" item in the Console list.

 

Note Online messages are not buffered i.e. the new message replaces the old one on users consoles.

 

Sessions Disconnection

To disconnect a session use Disconnect button. If session time-out is defined, the user process will be switched in the pending state (available for reconnection), otherwise disconnection will lead immediate user process termination. To disconnect all sessions of an user, click on the user icon in the Online users list and press Disconnect.

Session Termination

To terminate a user session use the Terminate button. Session termination is used to unconditionally cause a user process to exit. This function provides a clean process shutdown. This includes calling the entry-point function of all attached dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) with a value indicating that the process is detaching from the DLL. Terminating a session does not cause child processes to be terminated.

Session Monitoring

To monitor user activity of the selected session use the Monitor button.
This option requires the Session recording option enabled on the Logging page.