Navigating the J-Web Interface

The layout of the panes allows you to quickly navigate through the interface. You navigate the J-Web interface, move forward and backward, scroll pages, and expand and collapse elements as you do in a typical Web browser interface.

From the taskbar, select the J-Web task that you want to perform. Selecting the task displays related subtasks in the side pane. When you select a subtask, related fields are displayed in the main pane. By default, the system selects the first subtask and displays its related fields in the main pane. The side pane and taskbar are available from all pages, allowing you to skip from one task or subtask to the other from any page in the interface.

The path displayed in the top right corner of each page provides a context. Use this path to see your location in a configuration hierarchy. Clicking any link in the path displays the corresponding page.

You can easily navigate to most subtasks by selecting them from the side pane. On pages where you are required to take an action, buttons and links allow you to move to the next or previous page as you perform certain actions. Most buttons and links are self-explanatory. But some buttons have different functions on the Quick Configuration and Edit Configuration (J-Web configuration editor) pages. For more information, see Navigating the Quick Configuration Pages and Navigating the J-Web Configuration Editor.

Navigating the Quick Configuration Pages

Table 24 describes the functions of key Quick Configuration buttons.

Table 24: J-Web Quick Configuration Buttons

Navigating the J-Web Configuration Editor

When you select Edit Configuration (J-Web configuration editor), the side pane displays the top level of the configured hierarchy committed on the device. The main pane displays the configuration hierarchy options.

As you navigate through the configuration, the hierarchy level is displayed at the top of the main pane. You can click a statement or identifier displayed in the main pane, or in the hierarchy in the left pane, to display the corresponding configuration options in the main pane.

After typing or selecting your configuration edits, click a button in the main pane (described in Table 25) to move to the previous page after applying, committing, or canceling the configuration. An updated configuration does not take effect until you commit it.

Table 25: Key J-Web Edit Configuration Buttons

Getting J-Web Help

The J-Web interface provides two ways to display Help for the Monitor, Quick Configuration, Diagnose, Manage, Events, and Alarms tasks.

To get Help in the J-Web interface:

• Field-sensitive Help—Move the cursor over the question mark (?) next to the field for which you want more information. The system displays useful information about the field. Typically, this Help includes one line of information about what this field does or what you must enter in a given text box. For example, Help for the Peer Autonomous System Number field states, “the value should be a number between 1 and 65535.”
• Context-sensitive Help—Click Help in the taskbar to open a separate page displaying the summary of all the fields on that page. To exit Help, close the page. You can navigate Help pages using hypertext links connecting related topics, or click the following options (if available) at the top and bottom of each page. Figure 1 shows Help for the Traceroute page.
  • Prev—Access the previous page.
  • Next—Access the next page.
  • Report an Error—Access a form for providing feedback.

Figure 1: Tracing Unicast Routes Help Page