•Chargeback Manager - Chargeback Manager helps you manage ownership by department, track costs and assemble business reports. You can view data gathered by Chargeback Manager by element, department and enterprise-wide. You can show the data Chargeback Manager gathered to upper-management through reports, which can be e-mailed on a regular schedule. See ”About Chargeback Manager” on page 553 for more information.

•Reporting - Reporting provides detailed reporting on the infrastructure, such as statistics, and usage trends. See ”About Reporting” on page 429.

About the Home Page

The Home page provides an overview of the main features for the management server. You can access the Home page for Storage Essentials by selecting Tools > Storage Essentials > Home from Systems Insight Manager. To access a feature, click its icon.

Table 3

Feature

Description

Where to Find More

 

 

Information

 

 

 

 

Policy Manager can e-mail you,

”Managing Policies” on

 

generate an event or run a

page 531.

 

custom script when policy

 

Policy Manager

conditions are met. You can

 

define policies to monitor

 

 

 

 

provisioning status, element

 

 

creation, storage utilization and

 

 

incoming events.

 

 

 

 

 

Application Viewer lists the

“Accessing Information About

 

applications and their instances

Applications” in the

 

running in the storage area

Application Guide.

Application Viewer

network (SAN) and any events

 

associated with them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Backup Manager lets you keep

”Managing Backups” on

 

track of element backups.

page 349

Backup Manager

 

 

 

 

 

 

System Manager shows you the

”Viewing Element Topology

 

topology of your SAN and

and Properties” on page 217

 

gives you the ability to explore

 

 

details about each element.

 

System Manager

 

 

 

 

 

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