Server Console Interface

You can see various messages on the server console. These messages may be from user to server, server to user, or from one user to other. To see the meanings of various messgaes, please see the server and client design documents, But only developers need to see these. As an administrator they are not of much importance to you, except for reporting problems to developers in case of any probelm.

This is how the server console will look once it starts acceping messages from clients.

On the right side of the server console, there are 2 lists of users. They show the user ids of all online and offline users. When the server starts, only the offline users will be shown in the rightmost list. The other list will be empty. As more and more users come online, their names are added to the left side list and deleted from right side list. When any user goes offline, this process gets reversed.

The numbers of online and offline users are also shown on the top of the console window. As users come online and go offline, these numbers change.

The leftmost number on the top of the console window signifies the number of connections. The main difference between number of users and number of connections is that the number of connections is equal to the sum of number of users who are logged in and those who are not logged in. Some users may be connected to the server, but not logged in. Their number is also reflected in this box.

If you want to forcibly disconnect one or more users, simply select their user ids from the logged on users list, and click Disconnect Selected Users button. The selected users will be logged off and their ids will be added to the 'not logged in' users list.

If you close the server window by clicking the close button or choosing File-Exit from menu, a message will be automatically sent to each user informing about the server shutting down.