Overview
 
 
 

The Backburner Monitor described throughout this guide is often the only “visible” component of Backburner—that is, the only component with a GUI. In a Windows installation, the Backburner Manager and Backburner Server can also have GUIs. If these have been configured to run as Windows services, they run unobtrusively in the background—no GUIs are displayed. However, if these run as regular applications, they will be visible. This chapter provides an overview of each GUI.

Both the manager and server interfaces are simple text windows in which startup, information, and error messages are displayed. By default, the messages are also written to log files. There are two dialogs available from menus for configuring behaviour, and log levels, respectively. In both cases, settings you make using the dialogs are saved in the Backburner configuration file, backburner.xml, on the machine where the component is running. You can also edit this file directly.

For details, see the Backburner Installation Guide.