GoServe: The GoServe window

The GoServe window

Once GoServe has started, a PM window should appear. By default, a menu bar is displayed giving access to the 'Options' notebook and an 'Actions' drop-down menu. Access to these is also provided at all times by a pop-up menu if you click on the window with the context menu mouse button (usually button 2).

To change the background color of the window, select the color of your choice from the OS/2 color palette, drag it to the GoServe window, and drop it. The color should change immediately.

The window is used to display a summary of the current and past activity of GoServe. If it is large enough, it will include at the top a bar display that shows any client activity (the full width of the bar corresponds to the maximum number of clients allowed). A half-height grey bar indicates the peak activity seen since GoServe was started. This may be reset to zero by selecting 'Reset peak indicator' from the Actions menu, and will be shown in purple if any errors have been counted.

The second line of the window gives the total number of transactions initiated since GoServe started, and the average response time of the last 100 transactions. The color of this number changes to indicate whether the response time goal is being attained; you can change the goal (or turn off the coloring in the main window) using the 'Response' page of the Options notebook. The response time is replaced by a count of limits exceeded, or a count of errors, if any of these have occurred.

If room, the second line shows on the right the instantaneous count of connected clients and the peak number recorded since GoServe started (if more than one).

The transaction count may be reset to zero by selecting 'Reset transaction count' from the Actions menu). Similarly, the response time record, error count, limits count, and peak count may also be reset to zero.

The third line shows the number of bytes, thousands of bytes, or millions of bytes sent and received since GoServe started. These counts may be reset to zero by selecting 'Reset byte counts' from the Actions menu. The Actions menu also offers 'Reset all counts', which resets all of the counters.

The fourth line of the window displays two timestamps; on the left is shown the time when GoServe last entered the 'idle' state (that is, was waiting for clients). On the right is the time when GoServe was started (or when the last 'Reset All' was done).

Some or all of these items will be omitted if the window is too small for satisfactory display.

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