Dashboard

The Amber summary dashboard offers summary statistics on the Amber module. This dashboard helps the site administrator monitor disk space usage, how many sites have been snapshotted, and how many sites are in the queue for snapshot. The summary dashboard also offers the opportunity to trigger certain actions within the Amber module, such as deleting snapshots or creating new ones.

These features are accessible through the Configuration panel (Tools -> Amber Dashboard).

Table of Contents Global Statistics Delete all snapshots Scan content for links to preserve Preserve all new links Export list of cached pages Detail Edit post Cache links now

Global Statistics

Delete all snapshots

Selecting this option will eliminate all stored snapshots from file. This is not a reversible process.

Scan content for links to preserve

Amber can check all published pages and posts for links to snapshot and store. Clicking this button will scan all published content for outgoing links and add these links to the queue of future links to snapshot.

Preserve all new links

If the site administrator wishes to begin the snapshot and storage process instead of waiting for the process to automatically begin at a later time. Clicking this button will immediately begin the process of taking a snapshot of all links in the queue to snapshot.

Export list of cached pages

This allows you to export and download a file containing all information shown the detailed view of the Amber dashboard. This CSV file includes site-by-site information about whether or not a site is available, the date of the last check, the date of the most recent snapshot, the file size of the snapshot, the time stamp of the last view of the snapshot, total views, and any additional notes.

Detail

The Amber detailed dashboard shows site-by-site information about whether or not a site is available, the date of the last check, the date of the most recent snapshot, the file size of the snapshot, the time stamp of the last view of the snapshot, total views, the storage method (backend) used, and any additional notes. For example, if a site cannot be snapshotted because of its robots.txt file, this will be noted in the "additional notes" column. The site admin also has the option to delete site snapshots or blacklist sites listed in the detailed report.

Each snapshot will be recorded as its own entry, and will appear as a unique row. For example, a snapshot of www.harvard.edu stored using both the Internet Archive and Amazon S3 will be listed twice: once for the Internet Archive snapshot, and once for the S3 snapshot.

Edit post

Amber also has a single option available in edit view, accessible in any page’s individual view.

This feature is accessible through the same page that the site administrator would visit to edit an article.

Cache links now

If the site administrator wishes to snapshot and store all links in a single published article or page, the administrator can "Edit" the article. "Cache links in this article now" will appear as an option. Selecting it will automatically scan all content on the page for outgoing links, and Amber will attempt to snapshot and store them all.