Apparatus for monitoring and displaying activity of an information processing system

摘要

Apparatus for monitoring and displaying the activity of an information processing system, such as a central dictation system, having plural recorders, plural originating stations for supplying information jobs to be recorded on the recorders, and recovery stations for recovering information jobs from those recorders. The activity which is monitored and displayed includes the availability of respective recorders to receive information from originating stations, the lengths of information jobs which have been recorded and now await recovery, the expected recovery delay in recovering a new information job to be recorded on a recorder, and the number of information jobs in each recorder that are awaiting recovery. The apparatus includes a processor which senses the aforementioned activity and controls a video display for displaying same.