The LibMON Home Page

When you open LibMON, the LibMON Home Page is displayed, which graphically illustrates dynamic library event and summary information. The content area of the LibMON Home Page is divided into two sections:

Exploring the LibMON Home Page

At the top of the LibMON Home Page is the name of the domain in which you are working. The domain in LibMON is the name of the server to which the monitored library is attached. To the right of this domain name are the two icons standard to LibMON Web pages: the Help Link icon and the Stick Page Push Pin icon.

Using the Menus

You can access three menus from the LibMON Home Page:

LibMON Home Menu

This menu includes options to customize the page layout for the libraries, refreshing the library information, and navigating to the Contact List:

Create Menu

This menu includes options for creating new Libraries and Contacts.

Selected Menu

The options displayed under the Selected menu change depending on the page or object type selected. Depending on the user’s privilege level, some of the items in the Selected menu may not be visible since they are unavailable to the user at that privilege level. If a library item is selected, the following menu options are available:

If an event is selected, the following menu options are available:

Using the Library Management Area

The left side of the library management area provides summary information for each managed library in either a large icon or table format, depending on the display option selected by using Properties in the Selected menu on the Home Page.

A library is considered available when LibMON is able to successfully communicate with the tape library without any errors that indicate a warning or failure condition. In the view large icon state, a library icon displayed against a red background indicates an unavailable state. In table view, a small tape library icon against a red background indicates an unavailable state. When a library is in an unavailable state, you can not navigate to that library’s Property Book, Physical View, or Logical View Page.

The right side of the library management area contains two icons representing hypertext links to the Physical View and Logical View Pages.

Using the Event Management Area

The event management area at the bottom of the LibMON Home Page contains summary information about events logged at the server for monitored libraries. The event objects are displayed in table format.

Each row in the table corresponds to an event in the log. The first column contains an icon that indicates the event category:

Subsequent columns are user-configurable, as defined in the Event Sort Order and Event View Properties dialog boxes.

The Event Manager automatically updates the contents of the event management area when the server detects that a new event has occurred. New events returned from the server are added to the table in the order specified in the Event Sort Order dialog box.

Selecting and Saving Preferences

The LibMON server maintains LibMON display preferences for each LibMON user. Each time the sort and view dialog boxes are used to configure the display of libraries, events, or contacts, the new values are saved and maintained so that preferences are saved between LibMON sessions.

You can configure the display attributes of the LibMON Home Page by selecting the Properties option in the Home menu on the LibMON Home Page. This dialog box contains a Library Page Layout section that contains two radio buttons enabling you to select the library displaying: large icon or table view.

To Save the Display Option

Do one of the following:

1. Click OK to accept the changes and return to the LibMON Home Page.
2. Click Reset to return to the previous display settings.
3. Click Cancel to return to the LibMON Home Page without changing the display options.