LCS Monitoring Tool (shown in Figure 1)

The LCS provides a web-based monitoring tool that helps you to track the daily activity in the LCS. The monitoring tool can be accessed through your browser by going to the following url:
- http://lcs-ip:lcs-port/
Where lcs-ip:port are the ip and port that the LCS is listening to.

Important Information to Remember

By successfully opening the LCS Monitoring Tool, you are confirming that the LCS is properly running on your server.
No login is required to access the LCS Monitoring Tool, since no sensitive information is displayed. The information displayed is automatically updated every two minutes and there is no need to manually refresh the page.
It is very important for you to monitor "Test parts finished and saved" and "Test parts finished and pending". At the end of each testing day, you should have zero in "Test parts finished and pending" and all your completed tests in "Test parts finished and saved". As tests are completed, they are added to "Test parts finished and pending". Eventually, the system automatically uploads the student responses (completed tests) to the CAL Data Center and updates "Test parts finished and saved".
Figure 1 (LCS Monitoring Tool) View Larger Image.

The following information is available in the LCS Monitoring Tool:

This graph helps you monitor the number of students CURRENTLY taking a test. The graph covers from 7 AM to 7 PM and it does not include the students taking the practice tests.

This section displays the number of test parts that have been finished in the LCS and saved to the CAL Data Center.

This section displays the number of test parts that have been finished in the LCS, but are still pending to be saved to the CAL Data Center. Responses for these tests are temporarily saved in the LCS and are constantly and automatically transmitted to the CAL Data Center. The number of test parts pending should increase and decrease during testing, but it should eventually decrease to 0 at the end of the testing day.

This section displays the number of practice tests taken using the LCS in the current day.

Using this feature, you can check the status of a test part taken by a given student. You will need the login information from the Test Session Ticket used by the student to take the test. Enter the username, password, and session ID to search the status of a test part in the LCS.
- The status of a test part is "Active" if the student is currently taking the test part. The time when the student started taking the test is displayed as part of the search results.
- The status of a test part is "Pending" if the student finished taking the test part and the LCS has not yet saved the responses to the CAL Data Center. The times when the student started and finished the test part are displayed as part of the search results.
- The status of a test part is "Saved" if the student has finished taking the test part and the responses are also saved to the CAL Data Center. The times when the student started and finished the test part and the time when the responses are saved in the CAL Data Center are displayed as part of the search results.