User's Manual

Working with Running Sessions
Session Management 12-27
Managing Session Links
Authoring links essentially means to create connectivity (links) between or among the interfaces of the
resources. The following topics describe how to author links:
• Adding Connectivity
• Common Features of the Session Link Editor
Adding Connectivity
When the Active System Manager software starts a session by attempting to realize the associated
Template, one of its main tasks is to implement the Template’s links. You can assign a priority level to links
in a Template by clicking the Priority-Value field and selecting a priority value. The lowest priority level,
highest priority level, and default priority (the priority of any link that has not been set) are determined by
a file on the Active System Manager server. If these values have not been modified, they are preset with
the following values: highest priority is 5, lowest priority is 1, default priority is 1. You can change these
values on the server in the
config.properties file.
Note From the Sessions perspective, you can specify the link priority only if the value of
lmc.linkpriorityenabled is set to “true” in config.properties while deploying the
Active System Manager application.
Common Features of the Session Link Editor
Below are some of the common features of the session link editor:
• The link editor comprises three parts: a left pane with the selected element, the middle pane that displays
any links, and the right pane that displays the other elements in a tree view.
• The top action bar (see Figure 12-21) that allows you to define link types, as well as building better
connectivity.
Figure 12-21 Top Action Bar—Link Editor
• When you create a link in the link editor, the links also display in the session editor. To avoid confusion,
the link editor displays links from left to right. The right pane displays the connectivity from one
resource to another, but the source is unknown. To find the source, in the right pane, select the resource,
right-click and select Move to Left. The resource moves to the left pane.
• You can share the resource; for example, you can request the scheduler to allow for a subset of the
interfaces.
Quick Filtering
In the Filter text box (see Figure 12-21), enter a string to search and filter out elements on the right pane
content. This is useful when working with a large set of resources and the focus is on specific end-devices
and connectivity.