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The GUI
   
The GUI
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The GUI in op5 Monitor is built to be as simple as possible to use.
In this chapter the different parts of the GUI is described.
In-line help
A manual is great but sometimes you only need to get a fast answer about a special part of op5 Monitor.
To get information from the in-line help
1 Click the help icon
This gives you a small frame containing the help text.
2 Click anywhere outside the help text to hide it.
 
Login and logout
To login to op5 Monitor
First of all you need to login before you can start using op5 Monitor. To login to the op5 Monitor GUI:
1 Point your browser to the portal page of your op5 Monitor server
( https://yourserver/ )
2 Click op5 Monitor.
3 Enter login and password.
 
The default username is: monitor
The default password is: monitor
4 Click Login
To logout from op5 Monitor
To logout from op5 Monitor just click Log out in the upper right corner of the GUI.
Main menu
The navigation in op5 Monitor is simple and can be found in the top of the GUI. There are five main sections, seen from the left.
About
Monitoring
Reporting
Saved Filters
Configuration
There are also five quickbar buttons.
Refresh
Settings
Unhandled problems
Tactical Overview
Manage quickbar
Add custom quickbar link
To add a custom link to the quickbar menu select the small manage quickbar menu icon to right of the quickbar.
Add the URI, name and icon for your custom link
Pop up graphs and comments
In every view where you find the icons for
graphs
comments
You can hover the mouse pointer over the icon and get a pop up looking like this
Mouse over host
To quickly show the host address of a host, hold the mouse over the hostname. A pop-up will appear with the host address.
Keyboard commands
The keyboard commands are shortcuts to some of the features in the op5 Monitor GUI. The following keyboard commands are available:
search
pause
paging forward
paging back
Table 1 Default keyboards commands
Function
Default command
Description
Search
Alt+Shift+f
Set focus to the search field of the GUI.
Pause
Alt+Shift+p
Pause or activate the refresh of all the listviews in the GUI.
Pause will be valid as long as you are navigating on "list views" only. Go to host or service extinfo, configure or any other non "list view" page and then the pause will be back to normal.
Paging forward
Alt+Shift+left
Takes you to the left in a view that has more than one page.
Paging back
Alt+Shift+right
Takes you to the right in a view that has more than one page.
By default the keyboard commands are disabled. To enable the keyboard commands and change their settings take a look at Keyboard commands used in the GUI on page 143.