•Left pane - Displays the status light. If you are using HP the Storage Essentials workflow, you can view the buttons for the management server's utilities in the left pane.
•Right pane - Displays the output of a feature, such as the topology in System Manager.
About the Top Pane
The menus and button in the
IMPORTANT: The Configuration, Security, and Discovery buttons only appear if you belong to a role that has System Configuration selected on the Edit Role page (such as the Domain Administrator role). See ”Managing Security” on page 125 for more information.
•Configuration - This menu provides the tools for you to manage the management server, such as saving the database. See ”Configuring the Management Server” on page 153.
•Security - This menu lets you manage users, organizations, roles and licenses. See ”Managing Security” on page 125.
•Discovery - This menu provides the tools for the management server to discover and obtain information from elements in your network. See ”Discovering Filers, Tape Libraries, Switches and Storage Systems” on page 15 and ”Discovering Applications, Backup Servers and Hosts” on page 93.
•Help - This menu provides access to the online help and the copyright information.
The links in the
The status light indicates the status of the management server. It usually displays green under normal conditions, as shown in the following figure:
Figure 4 Status Light
The status light changes color during the following:
Table 2 Status Light Settings
Scenario | Status Light |
Normal
Discovery
Backup Topology Details
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