Using the Web Interface

General concepts

Overall Event Filter

All processing done by phpLogCon is relative to a user-selected filter. That is, only events that match the applicable filter condition will be show. In the initial release, the filter condition will be solely time-based. The default filter is "today". Other filters are "the last nn minutes", "the last nn hours", "today", "this week" and "from date ... to date ...". The filter can always be set by following a link on top of each web page.

Page Layout

Every page will follow a standard layout. It has three areas

header
main work area
footer

The header holds the top menu items and the current date and time. It also has quick links to:

MonitorWare's Event Repository
MonitorWare's Event Discussion Groups
a text box with buttons to search Google and Google Groups
... other things may come up during developmen ...
a short description of the current filter as well as a way to change it (in the initial release, a drop down list will do)

When we have the notation of a user inside phpLogCon, this should probably come out of the user profile. Over time, we may also provide dynamic links based on what the user did last.

The main work area is the primary display/work space. Obviously its content is depending on the called function.

The footer holds some general information:

Homepage

The main work area of the home displays statistical information:

number of syslog events
number of event log events
top 5 devices reporting

Of course, all of this in respect to the current filter.

Utility functions

Configuration Page

The configuration page allows the user to specify settings important for the overall operation of phpLogCon. So far, it will allow to configure:

connection string for the database (please note that passwords will be stored unencrypted as of now) Question: any easy way to avoid this?

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