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User Guide

This guide will help the user get acquainted with the mobile agent application. When the application is launched, by default the Information Tab is selected.

Information Tab

The Information Tab displays a list of website events and service events, received from both the cloud and results of locally performed connectivity tests. The website list is shown be default and each website item is clickable. Clicking a website name displays more information about it.
To flip to the service list, the user needs to click the "Go to Services" text. Similar to the website list, clicking a service name displays more information about it.

Map Tab

The Map Tab by default displays all events on top of Google Maps using overlays. Normal events are represented using green markers whereas differentiated events are represented using red ones. Google Maps can be switched to Open Street Maps through the Control Tab, which we will discuss next.

Control Tab

The Control Tab allows the user to change various application-wide parameters, such as:

Register Suggestion

Used to send website or service suggestions to the aggregator.

Set Interval

Used to set the connectivity tests interval.

Scan On/Off

To toggle the background connectivity tests.

Filter Websites

To filter website events from the Information Tab.

Filter Services

To filter service events from the Information Tab.

Select Map Package

To toggle the map package between Google Maps and Open Street Maps.

Enable/Disable Twitter

To toggle Twitter updates. When enable is selected, the user is directed to a Twitter page for authentication.