Table 2 Status Light Settings
Include infrastructure details
NOTE: When the status light is orange or red, you may want to click the text to the left of the light to access discovery logs quickly (Tasks & Logs > View Storage Essentials Log).
About the Left Pane
The left pane displays the buttons used to access the management server's main utilities. The left pane is accessible when you access Storage Essentials Home page (Tools > Storage Essentials
>Home):
IMPORTANT: You may not see all of the following utilities depending on 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.
•Application Viewer - Application Viewer lets you monitor and display information obtained from discovered databases.
•System Manager - System Manager lets you accesses systems, and view assets by fabric and logical path. See ”About System Manager” on page 217.
•Capacity Manager - Capacity Manager provides a graphical representation of an element's storage capacity in the storage network. See ”About Capacity Manager” on page 515.
•- Performance Manager provides a graphical representation of the results obtained from monitoring your elements. See ”Creating Performance Charts” on page 492.
•Event Manager - Event Manager lets you view, clear, sort and filter
•Provisioning Manager - Provisioning Manager assists you in creating zones, zone sets, and zone aliases, in addition to storage pools, volumes, and host security groups. See ”About Provisioning Manager” on page 297.
•Policy Manager - Policy Manager lets you set up rules so that an automated response occurs when a particular event happens or a value triggers the system. See ”About Policy Manager” on page 531.
•Business Tools - The management server provides advisors and automators. Advisors provides detailed information for you to make informed decisions about your network, such as
8 Overview