Managing FusionLink
FusionLink is embedded with a running FusionInvest / FusionCapital instance.
To allow each running instance of FusionInvest to host its own server, each instance is given it's own unique identifier based on the Windows Process Id.
To allow a user to easily identify which FusionLink instance they are connecting to, the Id is displayed in the Caption Bar.
In the example above the unique id is 19880.
The Caption Bar also shows the number of clients connected and the automatic computing preference. See Refresh Options for further information.
If you close the Caption Bar you can display it again via the "Display Fusion Link" command.
See Configuring-the-ribbon-for-FusionLink-in-7.X-and-above for more information
In order to monitor and control FusionLink a dashboard is included which can be loaded via the "Load FusionLink Dashboard" command.
Clicking the "FusionLink" icon will load this help.
- Portfolio: The number of unique portfolio / column pairs subscribed to via all clients. This is driven by the GET PORTFOLIO VALUE function.
- Position: The number of unique position / column pairs subscribed to via all clients. This is driven by the GET POSITION VALUE function.
- System: The number of subscriptions to GET SYSTEM VALUE function.
- Portfolio Property: The number of unique portfolio / property pairs subscribed to via all clients. This is driven by the GET PORTFOLIO PROPERTY function.
- Client Connected: The number of clients connected to this FusionLink instance.
- Listening on: The URI that FusionLink is listening on. This is useful for technical purposes only.
- Terminal Services: Whether the FusionInvest client is running locally or in Terminal Services / Citrix.
- Last refresh duration: The time in milliseconds it took to extract the numbers from the core engine.
- Average refresh duration: The average time in milliseconds it has taken to extract the numbers from the core engine.
- Publish queue length: Data to be send to Excel is queued in batches and this number displays the current queue length. During normal operation this should always be 0. It is useful for technical staff.
- Data server running: Whether FusionLink is currently extracting and sending numbers to connected clients.
The refreshing of Excel data can be started and stopped by clicking the "Start / Stop" button. When FusionLink is in a "Stopped" state no FusionInvest resources will be used. This can be useful to measure the impact of FusionLink on your client.