Table 3

Feature

Description

Where to Find More

 

 

Information

 

 

 

 

Reporting provides reports

Running Reports” on

 

using data collected by the

page 429

 

management server. Some of

 

Reporting

these reports give you

 

enterprise views of your hosts,

 

 

 

 

switches, storage systems or

 

 

applications while others give

 

 

you an at-a-glance analysis

 

 

based on assets, ownerships,

 

 

chargeback or performance

 

 

information.

 

 

 

 

The type of license you have. Depending on your license, all features may not be available. See the “List of Features” to determine if you have access to all features. The “List of Features” is accessible from the Documentation Center (Help > Documentation Center).

The role assigned to your user account. For example, users assigned to the Help Desk role by default have access to Application Viewer and Event Manager, but not to System Manager, Provisioning Manager, Policy Manager, and Reporting. See About the Security for the Management Server” on page 125 for more information.

For first-time users, see the following topics:

Discovering Filers, Tape Libraries, Switches and Storage Systems” on page 15

Discovering Applications, Backup Servers and Hosts” on page 93

Managing Security” on page 125

About System Manager” on page 217

About Event Manager” on page 409

About Provisioning Manager” on page 297

About Reporting” on page 429

Installing the Java Plug-in

Java 2 Runtime Environment is required to access several features in the management server, such as System Manager. If your Web browser is running on Sun Solaris, you must manually install the Java plug-in.

To install the Java plug-in:

1.Go to the following URL and download the installation file for the Sun JRE when asked:

http://<management_server>/appiq/j2re-1_4_2_04-solaris-sparc.sh

where <management_server> is the hostname of the management server.

2.In a terminal window, execute the downloaded file in a directory where you want the JRE installed.

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