VISITview Status Window

Introduction

This feature of VISITview allows the instructor to do real time monitoring of the activity of each student. On their VISITview session, the instructor may hit ALT+S to activate the status window:

The Close button at the top will, when clicked, close this window and stop the monitoring.

The next three lines identify:

• The name of the VISITview server being used
• The name of the session Group being monitored
• The current total number of sites connected (including the status monitor)

Below this is one line for each site connected. On each line, the following information is provided:

• The current status:
  • OK means the last page load has been completed
  • -- means the last page load request was acknowledged by the site, but the load is not completed
  • ?? means the no acknowledgement has been received for the last page load
  • XX means that the VISITview server encountered an error trying to send information to this site.
• The UserID (if any)
• The hostname of the site (shown in braces)
• The number of seconds since the last communication from this site
• The number of milliseconds it took to complete the last page load

Any site that does not have an OK status will be displayed in bold type to draw attention to it.

The Site Status window will automatically resize when the number of sites changes.

This may also be run as a stand-alone application (it does not require a VISITview session to be up and running) by using the command line:

If the <group> is the name @ALLGROUPS then the monitoring will happen for all groups connected to this server. Note: the 'all groups' mode is intended for occasional use to help diagnose problems with groupnames, and should not be used for an extensive period of time during a lesson. For normal monitoring, the actual groupname should be used.

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