Dashboard Tab

Banner—Displays the host name, IP address, and build number.

Action controls—Re-formats the Refresh, Reset, and +Widgets controls.

Widgets—Adds the Add Widgets tile that you click to add a Widget. Enhances the display and operation of the Add Widgets page.

Configuration Tab

View Configuration— Replaces the former Commands drop-down list with the View Configuration control to display the current configuration inventory for Editing Configuration Short, Running Configuration Short, Configuration Version, and Realm Specifics.

Search—Redesigns the search control appearance and usage. You can search by attrbute, value, or and object.

Column headers—Adds a right-click function to display a menu of column headers to show or hide.

Multi-instance configuration tables—Adds functionality for you to perform sort and delete actions on multiple rows at one time. Provides several ways to launch the copy, edit, delete, upload, and download operations.

System Tab

Configuration Assistant—Adds the Configuration Assistant launch button.

File Management—Adds the Configuration Template link that you use to upload a template for the Configuration Assistant or download a configuration file from the SBC.

System Operations—Adds the links formerly listed on the Configuration tab under Wizards to the System page under the System Operations heading.

S-Cz8.4.0p2

For more information about the following enhancements, see the topics cited for each one in the Web GUI User Guide.

• Drop-down lists in configuration dialogs—All configuration parameters that support lists of possible values now display a drop-down list of the values rather than a blank field where you previously had to type the value. The system populates some drop-down lists, and you can populate others with the entries you prefer. See “Drop-Down Lists” in the "Configuration Dialogs Behavior" topic.
• Configuration Options fields—Options fields in configuration dialogs allow you use selected delimiters between options.( commas, semi-colons, full stops, and parens) See "Options Fields" in the "Configuration Dialogs Behavior" topic.
• Infinite pagination for lists—You can scroll continuously through lists, rather than having to click through them page-by-page. The display provides a counter to help you keep oriented. See "Monitor and Trace" and "Configuration Tab Display".
• Context persistence—In certain situations, you can switch from one tab to another and find the data on the first tab displayed as it was when you return. See "Unsaved Changes Persistence", "Configuration Tab Buttons", and "Ladder Diagrams and Display Controls".
• Monitor and Trace ladder diagrams—The Monitor and Trace tab allows you open multiple ladder diagrams and switch back-and-forth among them. Also, you can open a ladder diagram, switch away to view something else (such as another tab), and return to find the ladder diagram displaying as it was before you switched away. See “Ladder Diagrams and Display Controls”, “Ladder Diagram Buttons”, and “Display a Ladder Diagram”.
• Multi-row select actions—You can select multiple rows in a table for certain actions. See “Controls for Managing Configuration Lists”, “Display a Ladder Diagram”, “Ladder Diagrams”, “Display Controls”, and “Monitor and Trace”.
• File upload—The system allows only the parens, full stop, and space characters in the names of files that you want to upload. The system verifies the syntax before allowing the upload and displays an error message when the syntax is incorrect. See "System File Management Types and Descriptions".
• Widgets tab—Oracle relocated all of the Widgets content from the Monitor and Trace tab, where it was located for the S-Cz8.4.0 GA release, to a new tab named Widgets for the S-CZ8.4.0p2 release. See "Widgets Tab Operations".

Basic Mode Support Removed

The Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller no longer supports the Web GUI in Basic Mode, but the upgrade to S-Cz8.4.0 will migrate and preserve the configuration that you created in Basic Mode. The S-Cz8.4.0 release supports only one mode, which is the equivalent of the former Expert mode.

If you are in Basic Mode when you log on the first time after you upgrade, the system displays the following message and asks you to confirm.

"The Session Border Controller no longer supports the Web GUI in Basic Mode. Click confirm to continue using the Web GUI. Your configuration will be preserved."

New Web GUI Behavior

Each part of the Web GUI received updates for the S-Cz8.4.0 release. The following information describes the visual and operational changes to the header and each tab.

Oracle Header

The header now displays four tabs, instead of five, and the User Menu adds the Preferences item. The following screen capture shows the new header, displaying the Dashboard, Configuration, Monitor and Trace, and System tabs.

• Widgets tab—The former Widgets tab is removed, and its contents now display on the Monitor and Trace tab under the Widgets link.
• Monitor and Trace tab—The Monitor and Trace tab now includes the functionality of the former Widgets tab as well as the preexisting Monitor and Trace functions. When you click the Monitor and Trace tab, the Web GUI displays navigation in the left pane and the SIP Sessions Summary page in the center pane. The following screen capture shows the Monitor and Trace tab landing page.

  

• User Menu—No longer includes the Screen Help link.

Dashboard Tab

• Dashboard Controls—The Refresh, Add Widget, and Reset controls now display all together in the upper right side of the Dashboard page, as shown in the following screen capture.

  

• Widget Controls—As before, each Widget contains the operational controls related to its purpose. The controls now display as icons in a tool bar when you hover over the three ellipses in top right corner of the Widget.

Configuration Tab - Basic Mode

The ESBC no longer supports Basic Mode.

Configuration Tab

• Show Advanced—Replaced with Show All.
• Center pane header—Now displays only the Save, Verify, Discard, and Search controls. The Wizards and Commands controls now display at the top of the navigation pane.

  

• Navigation pane—Displays the Wizards and Commands controls, along with the Media Manager, Security, Session Router, and System configuration objects and the Show-Hide toggle. The following screen capture shows the Navigation pane.

  

Monitor and Trace Tab

Navigation pane—Displays links to the Monitor and Trace summaries and the Widgets list with SIP Session Summary as the default display in the center pane.

System Tab

• Page header—The Force HA Switchover, Reboot, and Support Information links move from the navigation pane to the top right, corner of the page.

  

• Navigation pane—The File management and Upgrade Software links remain in the navigation pane, which now includes the Set Boot Parameters link.

  

  • Set Boot Parameters displays a configuration dialog, so that you no longer have to use the command line to set the boot parameters.

    

  • The File Type drop down list is removed. Use the arrow control by File Management to display the File Types.