VR Dashboard

The VR Dashboard display informs administrative users when certain aspects of the Voter Focus system are not performing as they should. Specifically, it reports when:

The Voter Focus administrator determines which programs are monitored by making selections on the Alerts Maintenance dialog in Voter Focus Admin. The administrator can also have email alerts sent out when a monitored program fails.

The program Email Sender, if monitored (and we recommend it should be), will have a Details button in the rightmost column. Clicking Details opens the Email Monitor dialog, which can provide information on the email failure.

• The occurrence of certain events in continuously running programs. Such an event might be a failure by the system to send emails to voters. Problems such as these are noted in the box labeled Events in the VR Dashboard display.

• Certain failure events occurring in a handful of Voter Focus programs. These programs are coded to send an alert to VR Dashboard when they experience a specific type of failure. These alerts will appear in the Failures box at the bottom of the dashboard display.

Messages in the Status column can be copied to the Windows clipboard for pasting elsewhere, as these messages might be lengthier than those in the Programs and Events boxes. To copy the message, click anywhere in the Status column.

Once a failure is investigated and resolved, you can clear the alert by clicking the Clear button in the right-most column of the Failures list. Clearing an alert won't be necessary for some monitored programs, which clear alerts automatically when the condition causing a failure is fixed.