Enterprise Console - Appearance

There are a variety of methods that can be deployed to suit personal viewing preferences when accessing the Enterprise Console.

From the Enterprise Console menu bar, select Appearance. The associated Appearance tool icons are now displayed in the Enterprise Console menu ribbon.

TIP: The following options only apply when the Enterprise Console is in View mode. To amend panel details, add or delete panels and change the Layout settings, use Edit mode.

There are four panels available from within the Enterprise Console Appearance menu ribbon:

Fonts

Click the Fonts icon to open a drop-down menu to select whether any font size changes affect all fonts across all panels and/or windows. All displayed text is then resized when either the increase size or decrease size option is selected.

Link Panels

If this option is selected, as indicated by a tick mark, then fonts across all panels in the current Enterprise Console window view are resized whenever the Increase Size or Decrease Size option is used.

Link Windows

If multiple views of the Enterprise Console are open simultaneously, then if this option is selected, fonts across all window views are resized whenever the Increase Size or Decrease Size option is used.

If neither of these options are selected, the font is resized in the selected panel only, whenever the Increase Size or Decrease Size font option is used.

Reset Fonts

Click the Reset Fonts icon to reset any fonts that have been resized, and according to the options selected in Fonts, back to their original settings.

Increase Size

Click the Increase Size icon to increase the font size of all text in accordance with the settings selected in the Fonts option.

Decrease Size

Click the Decrease Size icon to decrease the font size of all text in accordance with the settings selected in the Fonts option.

These four options define the alert colors for each of the following four statuses, as shown in the Status column for alerts displayed in the Enterprise Console.

  • Open/Acknowledge: The default status color for any open or acknowledged alerts is Yellow.
  • Error: The default status color for any alerts in error status is Pink.
  • Console: The default status color for any alerts replied to from the Console is Green.
  • Closed: The default status color for any alerts that are closed is Gray.

Changing the Default color

To change the default color:
  1. Click the down arrow to the right of each option to select a new color schema.
  2. Select a new color schema from those colors displayed or click More Colors to define a unique color schema.

These settings define the display formatting.

Show

Click the Show icon to open a drop-down menu that contains the following display options.

Link Alert Columns

If this option is selected, as indicated by a tick mark, any changes made to column ordering or resizing in one alert panel are duplicated in subsequent alert panels. If not selected, the ordering or resizing only applies to the alert panel in which it is actioned.

Empty Groups

Select this option to display any Groups in the Devices panel that do not actually contain any devices.

Arrange Windows

This feature is used when viewing multiple instances of the Enterprise Console on a single screen. Selecting this option automatically arranges multiple console windows into the optimized viewing display.

Select the Arrange Windows icon to initialize.

NOTE: Selecting this option when only one instance of Enterprise Console available for view has no effect.
Highlight Devices

Use the Highlight Devices icon to highlight the status column of any devices listed within the Devices panel of Enterprise Console

Options in this panel allow the selection and saving of any layout changes (created while in Edit mode). Saved layouts can be selected using the drop-down list from the Layouts icon.

Save

Click the Save icon to save any modified layout as the current layout name. Layouts are modified using the Edit mode.

Save As

Click the Save As icon to save any modified layout with a new layout name. Additional, saved layouts can be viewed from the Layouts icon.

Layouts

Click the Layouts icon to display a drop-down menu containing previously saved Layout formats. The current format being used is indicated by a tick mark. Click on another listed layout to select.

NOTE: If no other layouts have been defined and saved, the only available option in this list is the Default format.
NOTE: Views are unique to the user. Therefore it is possible to have multiple instances of Enterprise Console showing different panel views (containing the same data) if more than one user is logged on simultaneously.
NOTE: Enterprise Console remembers the last panel setting as used by the user and defaults to that display upon opening.

Stretch and Shrink

Individual panels of the Enterprise Console can be re-sized by using the stretch technique. As a result, other panel(s) on the display shrink to accommodate the new size.

To use stretch and shrink:
  1. Position the pointer over either the horizontal or vertical dividing bars between the panel. The pointer changes to a or Move Border shape.
  2. Hold the left mouse button down and drag the border in the direction that you wish to resize.
  3. Release the button when the desired position is reached.

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