The dashboard
The dashboard is made of tiles. Each tile shows one thing. You can show or hide tiles, move them and resize them, and save the arrangement.
The tiles
| Tile | What it shows |
|---|---|
| System Overview | The headline numbers for the board. |
| Quick Actions | Buttons for common jobs, including Services and Reports. |
| Recent Log Entries | The newest lines of the log. |
| Live Activity | A chart of the last hour of connections. |
| Currently Logged In Users | One row for each caller: name, the service they used, their address, how long they have been on and how long idle, across Telnet, SSH, RLogin, FTP, news and the web. |
| Service Status | One row for each service with a dot for whether it is listening. |
| System Status | CPU, memory and disk. |
| System News | The update status. A link here checks for updates. |
| Network System Status | Internet reachability, connections and failed logins over the last hour and day, banned addresses, the outbound queue, one line for each FidoNet link, this machine's addresses and the Login Guard. |
| Service Management | Stop, start and restart buttons for each service. See Service Management. |
| Log Viewer | A full log with tabs, filters and search. See Logs and the Log Viewer. |
| Reporting | Charts of calls and failed logins. See Reporting. |
| Mailer Monitor | Live mailer lines. See The Mailer Monitor. |
Some tiles are hidden until you switch them on in the View menu.
Dark and light
Choose Dispatcher > Dark Mode, or the button in the toolbar. The choice is remembered. The dark theme is the default.
Layouts
The toolbar has a Layout presets menu with three presets: Overview, Operator and Compact. Use Reset layout to put the current preset back to its sizes, for example after a new version adds a tile.
To arrange your own:
- Click Edit layout on the toolbar (or View > Edit layout (drag panels)). While you are editing, the button reads Done editing and a hint at the right of the toolbar reminds you how to drag.
- Drag a tile by its title bar (the dotted grip at its left) to move it. Other tiles move out of the way. Drag the right edge, the bottom edge or the corner to resize.
- Press Esc while dragging to cancel the move.
- Click Done editing to finish.
To keep an arrangement, open the Layout presets menu and choose Save current layout as…, type a name and press Enter. The menu then lists your named layouts so you can apply or delete them. You can keep up to twenty.
Everything is saved in Configs\PBDASH.UI. Deleting that file returns the dashboard to its defaults.
Figure 1. Edit layout mode. The toolbar shows Done editing and Reset layout; each tile has a grip on its title bar, a close button at the right and resize grips on its edges and corner. Names and the machine's address in the lower panels are blurred.