Diffusion management console

About

The Diffusion management console gives operational staff using a web browser accessible visibility over the operations of the Diffusion server that provides your Diffusion Cloud service.

Dependencies

The new console requires the latest version of a modern browser such as Chrome, Firefox, or Edge. Internet Explorer is no longer supported.

Logging in

The console is secured by a principal (username) and password. The principal you use to log in must have permissions to view and act on information on Diffusion Cloud , for example by having the ADMINISTRATOR role.

The console can optionally be configured to allow users to log in with an external authentication provider. This is useful for integrating Diffusion with corporate single sign-on (SSO) systems. For more information, see Configuring the Diffusion management console.

The default configuration of Diffusion Cloud can be accessed with these credentials:

principal: 'admin'
password: 'password'

This user has the correct permissions to use all of the console's capabilities. For more information, see Pre-defined users.

Note: We strongly recommend that you change the default security configuration before putting your solution into production. For more information, see Configuring security.

Features: Overview tab

The Overview tab of the console contains panels providing key information about the server.

Screenshot of the Overview tab showing panels.

Features: Topics tab

You can use this section to browse and interact with the Diffusion Cloud topic tree. You can browse the live topic tree, subscribe to topics and add/delete topics.

This tab also enables you to create topic metric collectors and topic views.

In the Metric Collectors section, specify the topics to include using the topic selector syntax. You can optionally choose to group by topic type. For more information about metric collectors, see Metrics and Configuring metrics.

In the Topic Views section you can create a topic view using a topic view definition. See Topic views for more information.

Features: Sessions tab

The Sessions tab shows a live list of the sessions connected to the Diffusion Cloud server in the Open sessions section, including session ID, IP address, connection and transport type, and total session time.

You can use the Metric Collectors section of this tab to configure a session metric collector. These enable you to gather information on a subset of all sessions. The Metrics section displays the output of your session metric collectors.

Each session metric collector provides information about the number of sessions (open, connected, peak and total), as well as inbound and outbound traffic in both bytes and number of messages. You can optionally group the sessions within a collector by session properties.

In the Metric Collectors section, specify the sessions to include using the session filter syntax.

You can group by session properties.

For more information about metric collectors, see Metrics and Configuring metrics.

Features: Security tab

The Security tab shows a live list of security roles that are configured on the Diffusion Cloud system authentication handler. You can configure roles and isolated paths from this tab.

For more information about security, see Security.

Features: Logs tab

The Logs tab shows a live color-coded display of log entries emitted by the server at the levels of INFO, WARN, and ERROR.