The Salamander Status Viewer utility is a small utility which is designed to support the monitoring of Salamander Integration Suite. It is stand-alone from the Salamander Integration Suite installation and no changes are needed to support its use.
The current release supports the following features. If you are missing some of these features, please contact our support team for help.
The utility will display some basic information regarding the installation of Salamander Integration Suite. These options cannot be updated but can exported to be sent to support for troubleshooting purposes.
On loading the tool will check for licenses, looking for the valid licenses for Salamander Integration Suite and where applicable MIS Writeback.
If a valid license is found, this will be displayed in a colour denoting the expiry of the license.
If no valid license is found a message is displayed.
On occasion an update to Salamander Integration Suite might be required to support changes to External services or to add new features. The utility will allow you to check for new versions and easily update Salamander Integration Suite if it is needed.
Information around the accounts created by Active Directory is stored in CSV files inside the installation folder. The utility will allow you users to quickly access and search this information. It is also possible to export this information for use elsewhere.
The utility allows users to monitor the installation of Salamander Integration Suite that it is running with. This feature will read up to 3 months of logs and allow filtering, sorting and searching of that information.
Given the size and quantity of the log files it can take a few moments for this information to load.
When the application is loaded it will count the number of Errors and Fatal messages in the past 3 days’ worth of log files to help the user identify any issues. It will also identify if no logs have been found for the past 3 days to identify those sites where the application may have failed to run.
When the application is configured for Timetable processing, you will be able to enable and disable the process for pupils and/or staff.
You can also modify the number of weeks in advance data is processed – and whether to override the change of academic year behaviour. By default, data processing is limited to the current academic year.
We understand that you may need to refresh credentials for accounts we use to communicate with your MIS, or with other services such as Office 365 or Apple School Manager. You can choose the relevant credential from the list, and update the password stored.
Passwords are encrypted within our configuration files.
If you need to check or update the username, please contact our support team for assistance.
The utility will show the scheduled tasks that relate to the Salamander Integration Suite installation on the server, including their current status, and when they last ran.
It is possible to run the tasks directly from here too.
Additionally, it will be possible to disable/enable specific workflows within a scheduled task to take deeper control of what is scheduled for the installation. This will allow for individual features to be temporarily disabled for a time if needed.
The utility allows you to manage some elements of the School Data Sync (SDS) configuration for the Salamander Integration Suite installation.
This will allow you to:
*Note any existing exclusions will remain in place.
The utility allows you to manage some elements of the Apple School Manager configuration for the Salamander Integration Suite installation.
This will allow you to:
The utility allows you to enable or disable the configuration for Google Classroom processing by the Salamander Integration Suite installation.
This will allow you to enable/disable live processing of data. The processes will still run, but in a “report only / what if” mode, logging the details of changes that would be made if enabled so this can be reviewed prior to enabling the live processing.
The Remote Access feature allows you to manage remote access to the installation directly through the status viewer.
This feature can be enabled by the support team at your request.
For more information about the remote access feature please see this page: https://www.salamandersoft.co.uk/salamander-status-remote-access-overview
Fraser from our support team has kindly put together this video walkthrough of the utility for us.
You can see that on our YouTube Channel here