Details Pane

The Details Pane has been reorganized in ThinManager with tabs to sort information. Highlighting a ThinManager Server, Group, Terminal, Terminal Server, or Terminal Server Group in the tree will display a different set of tabs and the corresponding set of information.

Additional detail is available in the Data Display section.

License Tab
ThinManager Server Tabs - Licenses

Highlighting the green ThinManager Server will show:

  • Configuration - These are the configuration parameters set in the ThinManager Server Configuration Wizard and include the Event Messaging summary.
  • Licenses - This displays the installed licenses, the quantity used and the quantity available.
  • Versions - This displays the version numbers of ThinManager, the firmware, and the TermCap database.
  • Event Log - This displays events for the ThinManager Server. The events and duration are configurable in the ThinManager Server Configuration wizard.

Module Tab
Group Tabs - Modules

Highlighting a Group will show:

  • Configuration - These are the configuration parameters set in the Group Configuration Wizard and include Terminal Server assignments, video settings, and monitoring settings.
  • Modules - This lists the assigned modules and parameters for the Group.
  • Properties - This is blank for a Group.
  • Event Log - This is blank for a Group.
  • Shadow – This is blank for a Group

Shadow Tab
Terminal Tabs - Shadow

Highlighting a Terminal will show:

  • Configuration - These are the configuration parameters set in the Terminal Configuration Wizard and include Terminal Server assignments, video settings, and monitoring settings.
  • Modules - This lists the assigned modules and parameters for the Terminal.
  • Properties - This shows the IP address, firmware version, make and model, CPU, memory usage, Terminal Up Time, CPU load, and BootRom version of the Terminal.
  • Event Log - This shows the terminal events and terminal configuration events for that terminal, if event logging is enabled in the ThinManager Configuration Wizard.
  • Shadow – This tab shows what the terminal is displaying on its monitor. Administrators can interact with the session while ThinManager Power Users can view the session, but not control it.

Status Tab
Terminal Servers Tabs - Status

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Highlighting the blue Terminal Server will show:

  • Status - This shows the status of the communication connection between the local ThinManager Server and the defined Terminal Servers and ThinManager Servers. This shows whether the local ThinManager Server is able to retrieve the updated resource information used in determining the SmartSession Server Ranking.
  • Summary - This will report information on the terminal servers like available memory, uptime, CPU utilization, and operating system.

The Connection Status of the Terminal Servers may have different messages:

  • OK indicates a good connection.
  • WTSAPI32.dll connection failed occurs when the terminal server is off or unreachable.
  • No login information supplied indicates that the Terminal Server didn’t have a username and password added in the Terminal Server List Wizard.
  • User specified does not have permission to connect indicates that the Terminal Server had an invalid username and password added in the Terminal Server List Wizard.

User Tab
Terminal Server Tabs – Users

Highlighting a Terminal Server will show:

  • Configuration - This shows the installed Client Communication Protocols and the SmartSession settings for the Terminal Server.
  • Properties – This tab displays the server resource data like total memory, free memory, uptime, and CPU speed.
  • Users - This tab displays information from the Terminal Services Manager. It shows users that are logged into the Terminal Server. Right clicking on a user will show options that allow the session to be Reset (logged off), Disconnected, or have a message sent to it.
  • Sessions - This tab displays information from the Terminal Services Manager. It shows users that are logged into the Terminal Server. Right clicking on a user will show options that allow the session to be Reset (logged off), Disconnected, or have a message sent to it.
  • Processes - This tab displays information from the Terminal Services Manager. It shows the processes running on the Terminal Server and can have them sorted by Session ID (users) or Process Name. Right clicking on a process will give the option to kill the process.
  • Graph – This tab will display the CPU usage and memory usage of the terminal server as a graph. This graph can contain one hour of historical data.
  • Connect – This tab will open a connection from ThinManager to the terminal server. This session allows administrators to manage the terminal server from within ThinManager.

Processes Tab
Terminal Server Tabs – Processes

Graph Tab
Terminal Server Tabs – Graph

The Graph tab will show the memory usage and CPU usage of the selected Terminal Server. The length of time the historical data is stored for each terminal server is configurable in the ThinManager Server Configuration Wizard.

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Connect Tab
Terminal Server Tabs – Connect

The Connect tab allows the ThinManager user to connect to a Terminal Server and start a session for administrative purposes if the user can supply a valid Microsoft username and password.

Server Rank Tab
Terminal Server Group Tabs – Server Rank

Highlight the blue Terminal Server Group. The icon will show no details.

Highlight a Terminal Server Group. It will show:

  • Config – The Configuration tab will show the members of the Terminal Server Group and details about SmartSession, Multi-Session, and AppLink.
  • Server Rank - This shows a graph with the SmartSession ranking based on the available resources. The server with the lowest number has the lightest load. The server with the highest ranking has the highest load.

The colors of the graph can be changed by right clicking on the graph.

Change Graph Color
Graph Controls Window

Right clicking on the graph will launch the Graph Controls window. The color of the lines can be changed by selecting a line from the Select Line drop-down and selecting the Set Color button to choose a new color.

The Zoom  In and Zoom Out buttons control the time intervals displayed on the graph.

The OK button accepts the changes and closes the Graph Controls window.

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