Application Director (station management)
) is the platform view that allows you to start and stop a station running in any host (whether a remote JACE, a local, or a remote
The term application refers to an installed station. In addition to starting and stopping, you use the Application Director to examine standard station output, for troubleshooting and debug purposes. From it, you define a station’s restart settings, plus have access to other station actions.
Figure 9. Application Director view, looking at Niagara station
Every 1.5 seconds, the platform daemon fetches data about the station(s) and updates the Application Director.
- To select a station, click the row in the table.
This action highlights the station. When a station is selected, its standard output appears, and all enabled right-side buttons that apply to it. For details, see “Application output” and “Application and output controls”.
- To access the station’s shortcut menu, right-click the row in the table.
The shortcut menu (a subset of the application and output actions buttons) opens. For details on included menu commands, see “Application and output controls”.
- To open a
If the station is not running, a double-click does not change the view.
- To open a
If the station is not running, a double-click does not change the view.