Sun Microsystems SL500 manual Synchronizing the Display With the Controller Database

		SL Console Screen Display
	Component Name	Description
5	Work area	Location of the screen data.
6	Library health indicator	Identifies the library to which the SL Console is connected,
		and displays a graphical representation of the library health.
7	UserID indicator	Displays the user ID currently logged in to the SL Console.
8	Server communication	Displays a graphical heartbeat monitor indicating the state of
	health indicator	server communication health.
9	Device tree	Lists the devices included in the library.

Synchronizing the Display With the Controller Database

When you first bring up an SL Console screen, the display reflects the most recently saved data from the library controller database. If you use the screen to modify the library contents or configuration, your changes do not update the controller database until you commit your changes by clicking the Apply button. Multiple users can access the library at the same time, using the SL Console, command line interface, and various host applications to make their own changes to the library contents and configuration. If other users make changes and apply them to the controller database, you will not see these changes until you click Apply or Refresh on your screen. Therefore, the display you see on the SL Console may not reflect the actual saved library configuration at a given point in time.

For these reasons, if you are making major modifications to the library configuration—adding modules, defining partitions, etc.—it is important that you coordinate these changes with other library users. Failure to do so could result in conflicts within the controller database.

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