Choosing Toolbars presents a menu of available toolbars. Choosing any of them shows or hides the selected toolbar. In addition, you can choose Lock the Toolbars, which turns the ability to move toolbars around the interface on and off.

Choose Component Bar to show or hide the Component Bar.

Choose Status Bar to show or hide the Status Bar.

Choosing Details displays the items in the contents window in a text-only list.

Choosing Icons displays the items in the contents window as icons.

Choosing Refresh causes the Longview Server Manager panes to be updated and to display current system data. A manual refresh will also detect changes made using line mode and update the system data accordingly. For more information, see “Performing server tasks using Longview Administrator Console”.

Choosing Console causes the Console pane to become active if it is already displayed, or to be displayed if it has been closed. The Console pane displays the status of configured processes running on the server.

Choosing Server Explorer causes the Server Explorer pane to become active if it is already displayed, or to be displayed if it has been closed. The Server Explorer pane enables you to view the server in your Longview system.

Choosing Properties causes the Properties pane to become active if it is already displayed, or to be displayed if it has been closed. The Properties pane displays the basic settings of a selected object.

Choosing Queue enables you to view the status of the server queues. The queues appear in the console pane. For more information, see “Working with server queues”.

Choosing Recover enables you to do the following:

• Recover the status of submission queues and resume processing.
• Recover the status of submission queues.
• Clear outstanding batch submissions.

For more information, see “Working with server queues”.

Choosing Import enables you to import data into database tables. For more information, see “Exporting and importing server data”.

Choosing Connect when the server (to which you are not currently connected) is selected in the Server Explorer pane causes the system to connect to the server.

Choosing Disconnect when the server (to which you are currently connected) is selected in the Server Explorer pane causes the system to disconnect from the server.

Choosing Start enables you to start the selected server if it is currently stopped.

Choosing Stop enables you to stop the selected server that is currently running, subject to warnings.

Choosing Stop Immediate stops the selected server at once. You should only use stop immediate when you need to stop the Data Server and users are connected, or there are jobs being processed. If you use stop immediate, you should have a business administrator check the data submission batches to ensure all the data was submitted.

Choosing Reset causes the error codes on the selected server to be reset. This allows users to connect to the server without seeing an error message while you are fixing the error.However, in some cases, you must fix the error before users can continue.

Choosing Longview Server Manager Help opens another window which presents the online help system.

The system has two panes; one on the left shows the Contents tab, which features an expandable and collapsible structure of topics and the subtopics grouped under them. The pane on the left contains other tabs:

• The Index tab, with links to content.
• The Search tab, which enables you to search the online help system for instances of words and then access the results.
• The Favorites tab, which enables you to bookmark information for future reference.

The pane on the right is the content pane, where the information contained in the online help system is displayed. This pane changes to display different information based on the choices you make in the other pane. It also features navigation buttons at the top of each topic that display the next and previous topic respectively, and hyperlinks that take you directly to related information when clicked.