3 Performing Utility Meter Tasks

This chapter describes all of the tasks you can accomplish using the Utility Meter GUI. You access these tasks by starting the Utility Meter GUI and then clicking the desired tab in the Utility Meter GUI. To perform a specific task, you click the appropriate button in the Tasks (right) pane.

For a listing of all of the tasks you can perform with the Utility Meter GUI, see Utility Meter GUI Tasks.

Table 3-1 Utility Meter GUI Tasks

Tab Selected

Tasks

Descriptions

 

 

 

GettingStarted

 

Displays help information about selecting

 

How to Select Devices

devices in the Managed Devices Tree,

 

selecting tasks from the Tasks pane, and

 

 

displaying help for the Utility Meter. For

 

 

 

 

more information, see Utility Meter Help

 

How to Select Tasks

Information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Help

 

 

 

 

Configure

 

Provides tasks to change the Utility Meter

 

Network Configuration

software configuration, save the Utility

 

Meter's current configuration to a file, and

 

 

add a namespace configuration to a device.

 

 

 

 

For more information, see Utility Meter

 

Copy the Meter's Configuration

Configure Tasks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Load the Meter's Configuration

 

 

 

 

 

Storage Devices Namespace

 

 

Configuration

 

 

 

 

Devices

 

Provides tasks to manage devices in the

 

Add Device

Managed Devices Tree — including

 

adding, modifying, viewing, and removing

 

 

devices — and the discovery of physical disk

 

 

 

 

arrays. For more information, see Utility

 

Modify Device

Meter Devices Tasks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

View Device

 

 

 

 

 

Remove Device

 

 

 

 

 

Discover Physical Devices

 

 

 

 

Diagnose

 

Provides tasks to verify the Utility Meter's

 

Meter Connection Status

data acquisition server is running and verify

 

the connection to a device. For more

 

 

information, see Utility Meter Diagnose

 

 

 

 

Tasks.

 

Device Connection

 

 

 

 

 

Report Meter Status

 

 

 

 

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