Dashboard

The dashboard displays directly after logging into the Dispatcher Paragon management interface. The user can also select dashboard in the left-hand side menu to display it.

Overview

On the Dashboard tab, the following functions are displayed, based on access rights:

  • User widgets – relevant for Dispatcher Paragon users.
  • Admin widgets – relevant for Dispatcher Paragon administrators.

Add widget

This function adds more widgets to the dashboard.

Dispatcher Paragon Version

This widget contains basic information about Dispatcher Paragon.


 Attribute

Description

Internal build

Internal version of the currently installed Dispatcher Paragon Server

Activation and support ID

Activation number and support identifier

Customer

Licensed customer name

License expiration

When the license expires. Detailed information about the license can be displayed in the tooltip by hovering the mouse cursor over the icon next to the expiration date. Items marked with a red color are expired or depleted

Support expiration

Expiration date of the product's software support

SLA details

Information about the currently purchased SLA. It includes the name of the SLA, its expiration date and the number of devices covered

Support information

Detailed system information in case of any trouble. Support information can be displayed and downloaded to provide customer support with detailed system information and the configuration

About the Dispatcher Paragon application

Information about Dispatcher Paragon and used technologies


System Services

The widget shows the Dispatcher Paragon internal system services and their status. Additional information about the service's status might be available in a title that displays when hovering the cursor over the status text.

Attribute

Description of status

Communicator

Dispatcher Paragon Server is ready to communicate with Spooler Controllers

Dispatcher Phoenix

Dispatcher Paragon Server is ready to synchronize data with the Dispatcher Phoenix API. The status detail provides information about the difference between Dispatcher Paragon Server and Dispatcher Phoenix system times. When a difference in system times exceeds the value specified by systemTimeDifferenceThreshold property or is not available at all, the service status changes from Running to Warning

Enterprise Server Synchronization

Dispatcher Paragon Server is ready to synchronize data in a cluster

LDAP Replicator Service

Dispatcher Paragon Server is ready to synchronize with LDAP

Active Objects in Dispatcher Paragon

The following is a basic overview of created objects in Dispatcher Paragon.

Attribute

Description

Devices

The total amount of installed devices

Hardware terminals

The total amount of installed hardware terminals

Embedded terminals

The total amount of installed embedded terminals

Spooler Controllers

The total amount of installed Spooler Controllers

Users

The total amount of created users

Cost centre

The total amount of created cost centers

Roles

The total amount of created user roles

Billing codes

The total amount of created billing codes

Printed/Failed Jobs

Widgets show the basic statistical data of printed/failed jobs via Dispatcher Paragon. Print jobs are summed per hour and data is listed from the last Dispatcher Paragon restart time.

Attribute

Description

Blue Line

Printed jobs

Red line

Failed jobs

System Information

The following is basic information about the system.

Attribute

Description

Server up time

Total time for how long the server has been running

Management Server GUID

GUID of Management Server node

Operating system and configuration

Operating system information

Free disk (with spooler) space

Total amount of free disk space

Database structure

Database structure check

.NET version

Installed versions of .NET

My Last Jobs

The widget shows the last ten jobs.

Attribute

Description

Title

Job title

Last status change

Time when the last change of this job was performed

State

Current job status


My Savings

This widget describes the amount of trees, energy, water and CO2 saved. Every non-accounted job with a deleted status is counted as purged.

Data is listed for the current month and the current calendar year.

Attribute

Description

Trees

The total amount of trees saved

Energy

The total amount of energy (in kWh) saved

Water

The total amount of water (in liters) saved

CO2

The total amount of CO2 (in kg) saved

Money

The total amount of money saved (in the currently set currency)

Access Credentials

This widget can be used to generate a new PIN and card activation code for the logged user. Note that particular features need to be licensed and enabled in order to see parts of the widget or the widget itself.

The user password can be changed via the menu option located in the drop down displayed by clicking the name of the logged user in top right-hand corner of each web application page.

Attribute

Description

Generate PIN code

This code can be used for authentication at the terminal on the printer

Generate PIN

Click to generate a PIN code

Generate Card Activation Code

This code can be used to assign a new card on the terminal of the printer. Swipe a card over the terminal and when prompted, enter the Card Activation Code. The next time the card is used, the user will be automatically authenticated

Generate Card Activation Code

Click to generate a new Card Activation Code

Text Encryption

Use this widget to encrypt any text. This type of encryption is used by various Dispatcher Paragon tools, the application and settings for securing sensitive information for the system's users.

Canceled Jobs by System Restart

Use this widget to find all jobs that were canceled by a system restart. All jobs may be re-queued or canceled.

Attribute

Description

Find automatically canceled jobs

Find all jobs that were canceled during a Dispatcher Paragon restart

YES

Re-queue all found jobs

NO (cancel the jobs)

Cancel all found jobs

Welcome to Dispatcher Paragon

This widget covers the basic Dispatcher Paragon setup before first system use. Uncompleted tasks are marked red.


Attribute

Description

Company information

Basic settings with information about the company that uses this Dispatcher Paragon Server. This section is available only when the Management report feature is licensed and enabled

Email settings

Basic email notification settings may be set up here

Regional settings

Basic regional settings may be set up here (including currency and VAT)

Users, cost centers and roles

Basic operations with users, cost centers and roles

Devices

Basic operations with devices

YSoft Payment System

Basic configuration of the Dispatcher Paragon Payment System integration

Print job parser

Basic settings of the print job parser (see Print Job Parser Configuration for more information about this section)

System is ready

Basic system ready check

A description of the Welcome to Dispatcher Paragon widget can be found here: Widgets - Welcome to Dispatcher Paragon

Through this widget, a user may add custom hyperlinks to other web pages or applications.

Attribute

Description

Add

Add a new link to my widget

  • Web page
  • FTP
  • Email
  • Other

Edit

Edit existing links

Database Integrity

This widget displays the database integrity.

Attribute

Description

Last update

The last time an update was performed

Next update

The specific time when the next update will be performed

Support Information

Support information can be accessed from the Dispatcher Paragon version widget and the Dispatcher Paragon version widget > Support information.

Custom support information can be added to this page by editing the value of the customSupportInformation configuration property in System settings.




Another Support Information widget is available for everyone and is used to get support identifier so that customers can identify themselves to partner support when contacting them.

If the license is not applied, the widget still will be shown but without any specific information.

System Information

The System information tab contains up-to-date detailed information about the Dispatcher Paragon installation.

List of system information

Version

Information about the version of Dispatcher Paragon

Components

This section contains information about each system component – its current version and installation date and its update history

The information is parsed from the DispatcherParagon_DIR/conf/version.conf file that is managed by the Dispatcher Paragon installer package

License

Information about the Dispatcher Paragon license

SLA

Information about the purchased SLA

Licensed features

Information about the licensed features, expiration status and validity

Licensed items

Information about licensed items, the amount of licenses and currently used licensed items

System

Information about the operating system, disk space and the Dispatcher Paragon installation directory

Database

Information about the Dispatcher Paragon database

Cluster

Information about the Dispatcher Paragon cluster

Services

Information about the Dispatcher Paragon service status

Devices

Information about devices, terminals, drivers and queues

Devices groups

Information about devices groups

JVM settings

Information about JAVA memory, etc.

Support information download

Information for customer support can be downloaded by clicking button Download support information. The downloaded zip file contains Management configuration files and a file with system information.

About information

The About information tab contains information about the product support.

Custom product support information can be added to this page by editing the value of the productSupportInformation configuration property in System settings.