Getting started with the Operations Interface

Overview

You can invoke the Operations Interface in the following ways:

From a Tasks widget. Typically, these might be displayed at your Home Page. For more information on widgets, please see the Dashboard Designer documentation.

Clicking the button displays the Operations interface in a separate tab in the RPI framework. Only one Operations interface tab may be open at a time.

From the quick access menu’s Operations menu. The Operations menu exposes the same option as described above.

Note that access to the Operations interface is controlled via the Operations functional permissions. There each tab within the interface has a corresponding permission. You must be associated with at least one of the Operations permissions to access the Operations interface. Association with an Operations permission provides access to the tab to which the permission refers.

Header

A header is always displayed at the top of the Operations interface, and contains the following:

• [Overall system health status]: this is displayed if the logged-in user is associated with the Operations – System Health functional permission. Overall system health is shown as one of the following:

  • All Systems Healthy: the RPI server is decreed to be healthy when no Warning or Attention Required issues are present in the System Health tab.

  • System Warnings Present: the system assumes this status when one or more Warning, and no Attention Required, issues are present in the System Health tab.

  • Attention is Required: one or more Attention Required issues are present in the System Health tab.

  • System Health has not been loaded: this message is shown when system health information is yet to be loaded – for example, immediately on initializing the Operations interface.

If the user is not associated with the functional permission, a generic ‘Operations’ header is shown instead.

Wiki Options: this button is shown to the right of the Operations interface header. It allows you to access or define an Operations Wiki page.

More details on Wiki Options can be found in the RPI Framework documentation.

Note that the Operations Wiki page is saved using configuration setting OperationsWikiPage ID.

Tab set

The main body of the Operations interface is occupied by a tab set, which exposes the following tabs:

• System Health

• System Tasks

• Audience Snapshots

• Execution Services

• Server & Client Log

• Workflow Summaries

• Workflow Instances

• Audience Instances

• Query Trace Log

• Housekeeping

• Approval Summary

• Audit Log

• Telemetry

Note that the tab within which you were most recently working is shown on opening the Operations interface.

The Operations Interface and NoSQL Databases

When working with the Operations interface in a NoSQL environment, the following considerations apply:

• The following interface is not shown:

  • Audience Snapshots

• System Tasks tab:

  • The following tasks are disabled by default:

    • Attribute value catalog

    • Audience snapshot requests

• Query Trace Log tab:

  • Rule execution entries are shown as 'Rule count' at NoSQL selection rules (applies also at Workflow Summaries tab).

• Housekeeping tab:

  • The Audience housekeeper removes NoSQL test audience records that are more than 28 days old.