JBlade Dali™ Gold Overview

Overview

JBlade Dali Gold is a Java library for drawing and interacting with AdvancedTCA® shelves, blades and FRUs. It decreases the development time of any Java client displaying AdvancedTCA hardware.

Features

  • Supports shelves with horizontal or vertical blades
  • Supports a wide range of PEMs, Fan Trays, Alarm panels, Fan Filters
  • AdvancedTCA blades can be inserted into any slot in any shelf
  • Full control of LEDs blink rates and colors
  • AdvancedMCs can be added to AdvancedTCA blades
  • Swing Drag and Drop of FRUs into a shelf
  • Integrates easily into any AdvancedTCA system manager using IPMI FRU addresses
  • Textual Identification of LEDs using Swing tooltips

High Resolution Graphics

All shelf and FRUs rendering is done using vector based graphics resulting in crisp, clear representations of the hardware. No GIF or JPEGs are used. This allows the drawings to be viewed on displays ranging from a small PDA up to the wall size displays found in Telco network operations centers.

Integration

The library is a standalone 3MB Jar file that can be integrated into an AdvancedTCA system manager. The library leverages the basic JbIpmi and JbAtca software layers used by other JBlade products. Combine JBlade Dali with JBlade ACAT to dramatically reduce the effort to build any system manager.