Commands

There are two main menus already in this version of TAgents. The System menu is for controlling the System and the Agent menu is for maintaining the Agents (as well as the System Agents). The respective menu items are:

System

 

Show History

Opens the history window for the System output.

Shutdown

Shuts down the System.

Agent

 

New Agent

Lets the user create a new Agent.

Send Message

Lets the user send a message to the selected Agent. This is still not implemented in this version of TAgents.

Start

(Re-) Starts the selected Agent. If the Agent is already started nothing will be done. The actual status of the Agent can be viewed on the right column of the window.

Stop

Stops the selected Agent.

Conclude

Terminates the selected Agent. The Agent will then disappear from the screen is not accessible anymore. An administrator should be careful with concluding an admin System Agent, possibly leaving the System without any admin System Agent. This would mean that it would not be able to administer anymore. The same is valid for the stop commando.

Show History

Shows the history window with the output for the selected Agent.

Figure: GUIAdmin Main Window

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The output of every Agent and of the System is shown in the history windows. The history window contains a text field with all the output this Agent has made while executing in this System. When there are more lines than available on the screen the text field gets some scrollbars and is so able to contain all the output. The next images show the main window of the GUIAdmin and the history windows of a normal Agent, a System Agent and the System itself.

Figure: Agent History for AgentEx3

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Figure: Agent History for MAFFinderService

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Figure: System History

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