File Menu is related to browse and refresh devices in the tree, make a backup and restore of a ThinMan installation, and exit from the console.
¶ Connect... and Disconnect...
Connect and Disconnect will close the current working session and to connect to a new one. Using these command, with ThinMan Access Control enabled, allows to change users on the same console (local or remote).
¶ Refresh all and Browse all
See Network Browsing and Device Refreshing for a complete description of these commands.
¶ Browse at...
Sometimes there is the necessity to browse some defined IP Address(es). Launch this command will open a new window.\
Select IP Address option from:
- Single IP Address: you can browse a single IP Address, insert into the field the single IP Address you want to browse
- IP Range: you can browse a range of IP Address, insert "From IP" and "To IP" to define the two IP extremities, this will try all the IP Address from the first to the last. Beware of which IP Addresses you insert, there can be a long time operation, see Stop Device Discovery to eventually stop this operation.
- IP Addresses from ThinMan Inventory: you can select a file with lot of IP inside. This file must be created using Export Inventory Menu.
Clicking on "OK" to launch the discovery process. See Toolbars -> Status Bar to know if a process is running.
Note
Beware that this operation will "add" a discovery process to eventually pre-existent others. See Toolbars -> Status Bar to know if a process is already running and see Stop Device Discovery to eventually stop this operation. "TCP Discovery" can be very long operation.
¶ Global Backup and Global Restore
See How to Backup and Restore a ThinMan Installation for a complete description of these commands. They are just a reminder that an external command has to be launched.
¶ Stop Device Discovery
If a Device Discovery process is running (see Toolbars -> Status Bar to know if a process is running) it can be stopped with this command.
TCP discovery can be very long process because of network time-out so can be useful to stop it (and eventually relaunch it).
¶ Taskbar
The taskbar will display the last 10 executed tasks. To access the taskbar history it is necessary to have the ThinMan Advanced license with Admin+ feature pack.
- Taskbar Cleanup: This command cleans the taskbar visible at the bottom of the console.
- Taskbar Filter
- Taskbar History: available only with the license ThinMan Advanced and Admin+ Feature Pack
¶ Exit
Exit Menu will close the console. ThinMan Services will still be alive and work continuously to collect data from thin client and responding to their request. To stop or restart ThinMan Services see How to Stop and Start ThinMan Services.