•E-mail address

•Phone number

3.When you are done with your modifications, click the Save Changes button.

Modifying Your User Preferences

Use the User Preference tab to modify your user preferences for System Manager, Element Topology, and Event Manager. The User Preference tab controls what is displayed for your user account.

To access the User Preferences tab:

1.Click the name of your account in the upper-left corner of Storage Essentials.

Figure 9 Accessing the User Preferences Tab

2.Click the User Preferences tab.

System Manager and Element Topology Preferences

To change the severity icons you view in System Manager and in the element topology, select a severity level from the Display Severity icons with this severity level or higher drop-downmenu. See the topic, ”Viewing Event Status in the Topology” on page 250 for more information about event status.

If you want events refreshed within a time period, select the Refresh events automatically field. Then, enter in minutes how often you want the event information on the screen updated. If this option is set to every five minutes, the management server refreshes the severity icons displayed in System Manager and the element topology every five minutes.

Event Manager Preferences

Use the following table as a guideline for changing your user preferences for Event Manager.

Table 14 Changing User Preferences for Event Manager

If you want...

Do the following...

 

 

To be reminded

Select the option, Always remind me to apply filters when I change

whenever you

them.

change a filter

 

 

 

Events refreshed

Select the option, Refresh events automatically. Then, enter how

automatically

often in minutes you want events refreshed.

 

 

Change the

Select the number of events to appear on a page from the Number of

number of events

Events combo box.

displayed on each

 

page

 

 

 

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