GUI Enhancements and New Features in Session Monitor Release 6.0
Here's a summary of the GUI Enhancements made in Session Monitor Release 6.0.
Table 2-1 GUI Enhancements in Release 6.0
| Enhacement | Desscription |
|---|---|
| New green theme | The new green theme provides clarity and enhances user experience. |
| Icons design | Icons appear as borderless and the overall look and feel has been uplifted to include the latest UX standards. |
| Left navigation menu | Left navigation menu can be hidden or toggled allowing a larger view of the application. |
| Icon Glossary | Serves as a visual reference, enabling quick identification of the various icons in Session Monitor. |
| What's New | Provides details on new features, with each new feature demonstrated using an animated GIF. This visual aid enables you to quickly understand the features and learn how to use them efficiently. |
| Dashboard with Tabs | Offers a flexible method for creating custom Dashboard tab views,
ensuring quick loading and better organization. Tabs can be
reordered, shared and set to auto-switch for hands free
monitoring.
All pre-existing Dashboard Panels are added to the Default Tab. |
| Increased number of rows in the Calls Dashboard panel. | On the Dashboard, the Calls panel shows 25 rows increased from 10 rows. |
| System Highlights | Provides a quick overview of the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) related to traffic and system performance. Offers immediate access to essential metrics. |
| Message Flow | The device drag-and-drop feature allows easy reordering of devices in a message flow, enabling users to customize communication sequences intuitively. Changes persist after saving, ensuring a seamless experience for adjusting operations, prioritizing tasks, and aligning configurations. |
| Apps Results | Expanding the App Results section provides a detailed analysis of the output. This improved visualization enhances the ability to analyze data quickly, compare metrics, and validate results. |
| KPI Charts - Bar chart | Bar Chart: Expandable for KPI (height-wise). KPI dual axis added to dashboard panels. Zoom level on KPI page used with Show in Dashboard (was 3 hours). |
| KPI/Metrics → Selected KPIs | Option to display only the selected KPIs. |
| KPI/Metrics → KPI/Metrics Monitoring Grid | The Collapse Library Panel option enables you to collapse the library panel for a larger view of the favorites. |
| KPI/Metrics → Favorite Metrics/KPI | The sorting order for columns (such as, Name) persists after saving. If you navigate away and return, the chosen sorting order remains same. |
| Calls → Active Calls Chart | A new chart option - Bar Chart in the KP's and Call pages. This is in addition to the existing line chart option. |
| Calls → Recent Calls → "Resizing - Column Header" | Table columns can now be resized, and the preferences persist even after navigating away and returning to the page. |
| Calls → Recent Calls → Toolbar | Download Message Flow button in the Calls panel allows you to download the Message Flow directly. |
| Calls → Recent Calls → Right-click Menu | Download Message Flow button in the Calls panel allows you to download the Message Flow directly. |
| Registrations → Registrations Table → Resizing - Column Header | Table columns can now be resized, and the preferences persist even after navigating away and returning to the page. |
| Subscriptions→ Subscriptions Table → Resizing - Column Header | Table columns can now be resized, and the preferences persist even after navigating away and returning to the page. |
| Devices → Device Metrics Chart | Expand/Collapse Metric Library option allows the Metric Library panel to be collapsed for a larger view of the graph. |
| General Settings → Status | Shows the version software version and the History Info link displays version history. |
| General Settings → REST API | Use the Copy button located next to each key/value pair in the REST API General Settings section to copy the Key/Value pair to the clipboard. |
| System Management → System Setting → only-custom | The only-custom toggle switch is located in the System Settings section. When you enable this, only the custom system settings appear on the list. |
| Network → Probes | The Search option in Probes Settings allows you to filter probes by table columns. The top-right count displays total entries. |
| Platform → Platform Devices | The Search option in Probes Settings allows you to filter all platform devices by table columns. The top-right count displays total entries. |
| Platform → Device Monitoring → Ip Tags | The Search option in IP Tags Settings allows you to search and filter through all IP Tags by table columns The top-right count displays the total entries. |
| Platform → Device Monitoring → Prefix Tags | The Search option in Prefix Tags Settings allows you to search and filter through all Prefix Tags based on table columns. The top-right count shows the total entries. |
| Platform → Realms Definitions → Realms Table | The Search option in Realms Table Settings s allows you to search and filter through all Realms based on table columns. The top-right count shows the total entries. |
| Platform → Realms Definitions → Realm Patterns | The Search option in Realm Patterns Settings allows you to search and filter through all Realms Patterns on table columns. The top-right count shows the total entries. |
| User Management | The Search option in User Management allows you to search and filter through all users based on table columns. The top-right count shows the total entries. |
| User Management → Role Management | The Search option in User Roles settings allows you to search and filter through all roles based on table columns. The top-right count shows the total entries |