Clicking the Workers tab switches the interface to focus on the Worker hosts:
This also changes the available tabs on the Details pane, to the right:
And modifies the Filter Bar above the Workers Pane:
1. Main Menu The standard menu.
2. Filter Bar Use the Filter Bar to filter down the Host Layout to include only those hosts you are interested in.
3. Farm Layout Pane The most significant portion of the host control and monitoring workflow. Hosts that are displayed here can be filtered, sorted and se-lected.
4. Host Status At-a-Glance Pane Graphically displays host status.
5. Host Details Pane The "Properties" tab displays details about the host including the properties, resources and in-stalled job types. The "Configuration" tab will display all the configuration properties for the Worker as well.
6. Status Pane Feedback on what the GUI is doing.
Right-Click Menu Actions
- Refresh Update the selected Worker's information from the Supervisor.
- Lock All Take the Worker and all of its process slots off the farm.
- Unlock All Put the Worker and all of its process slots on the farm.
- Lock/Unlock Selectively specify the number of process slots that the Worker has available to run on the farm.
- Lock/Watchdog Use the Qube Watchdog to automatically put a Worker on the farm when it becomes idle.
- Lock/Schedule Specify the weekly schedule to automatically take the Worker on and off the farm.
- Configure If on the Supervisor, centrally modify the Worker's configuration on the Supervisor. It modifies the qbwrk.conf file that can also be edited by hand if desired.
Under the Farm Layout, the panel on the right called "Resource Summary" presents a summary of the Farm Worker states, Farm active slots, and global/license resources. Having the global and license resources exposed in the GUI provides more general access to this functionality instead of just through the commandline "qbadmin" command.