Monitoring a Simulation

The following techniques are available for monitoring the progress of a simulation:

Monitoring a simulation from the authoring app

When you run a simulation in interactive mode from a simulation app, status information is displayed on your workstation as long as your session remains open.

If you run a simulation in background mode and close your session, you can restore communication and resume monitoring. Open the simulation in the app in which it was created, and request that status information be displayed on your workstation. (Use the Notification command from the context menu.) Alternatively, you can resume monitoring from a Navigation or Search window, as described below.

Monitoring a simulation from a Navigation or Search window

When you run a simulation in background mode from a Navigation or Search window, status information is displayed on your workstation as long as your session remains open.

If you run a simulation in background mode and close your session, you can do either of the following:

• Open the simulation in a simulation app and request that status information is displayed on your workstation.

• Select the simulation from the Navigation or Search window, click Notification , and select the Notify me when the simulation is complete check box from the window that appears. If the simulation is running locally, you can request status information only if you are on the same workstation that is running the simulation.

  In addition, the Notification command provides more detailed status messages than the other techniques; for example, it displays messages indicating licensing or database issues. The Notification command is available from the right-click in a Navigation or Search window and from the action bar in a Navigation window.

Important: You cannot interactively monitor (using the Simulation Status action) a simulation that is running in background (noninteractive) mode.