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 upper-right corner of the Home page (Tools > Storage Essentials > Home) provide the following functionality.

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 upper-left corner let you modify your profile and sign out of the management server.

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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